This art-deco style, New York Central Railroad's Buffalo Central Terminal train station was built in 1927 and opened in 1929. It's tower still stands 17 stories high. Its best years were from around 1940-the mid 1950's. It closed in 1979 and its worst years were from 1985-1997 when the building was stripped of anything valuable. Vandals and weather also took over the interior and parts of the exterior beauty of this former NYC train station that was also used by Penn Central when the Pennsylvania RR & NYC merged in '68, then Amtrak and Conrail used the station until '79. From 1997-Present Day, the Central Terminal Restoration Corporation (which I am a member of) took over ownership of the building. The CTRC has and is restoring various parts of the building. For more info on the Buffalo Central Terminal or the CTRC, go to http://buffalocentralterminal.org Music Copyright: "I Am A Rock" & "The Sounds of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkel Pictures Copyright: Google & Bing Images and buffalocentralterminal.org Movies featured: "Route 66" "Best Friends" "The Natural" I invite you to check out other BCT videos and pictures on YouTube or anywhere else you can find them! Also, you can check out their facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/buffalocentralterminal?ref=ts) and follow them of\n twitter for news, events, and updates on the Terminal.

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1. All the comments on here think it can ,should be restored....WHY??And how many of the viewers are coming forward with a couple o thousand $ to start the movement. Because in its glory days it was a spectacular place to start a trip?. Fire and brimstone even Buffalo's airport is little more than an X GI quanset hut pile of nothing .The cities mentioned who grasped an idea to reutilize former train stations had local citizens were movers and shapers in their communities. Name more than one mover and shaker in Buffalo.Can't do it can any of you????..Buffalo was raped of its best natural resource decades ago when
   Its younger generations saw the potential for success in other parts of the USA, Sayonara they all said, I left thru Central Terminal in a march blizzard for a great career in the AF, returned on emergency leave one time thru the terminal and never again
2. I was born in Buffalo in 1953. I lived first at 251 Hutchinson St. Which that part of Buffalo is a war zone. I used to visit the Buffalo Central Terminal from time to time, it's a shame they torn out the walkway to the tracks from the main station just so the Belt Line can go right through. I'm an avid train buff. Buffalo is one of the best places in the nation for train watching. Restoring Central Terminal is a big and costly job. I travel by Amtrak when I travel
   long distance. Amtrak should have stayed at Central Terminal.
3. Awesome tribute. One reason it was build away from downtown was the hope it would spawn development in that section of town. If anyone thinks it should be knocked down think again. The St. Louis terminal was turned into a multi-level facility.
4. you did suuuuch an awesome job on this. Can't help but cry when I watch this.  Thank you.
5. Amtrak can not use the station again even if they wanted to.  Conrail blew up the walkway that carried passengers from the waiting area to the platforms so that higher freight cars could use the belt line.  The platforms are still there, the track is gone though.
6. It's sad what happened to that building.  The first owner stripped every piece of copper and brass out of the building he could, and then sold off all the art deco fixtures.  It's to the point now that it would cost millions to restore the terminal to even the state it was when it was closed.  Just replacing all the glass in the main areas that was broken by vandals would be a huge cost.  Not to mention getting the utilities back on.  
7. I remember going to some kind of sale like the ones in these pics with my mother and thinking why are they selling things here? I was like 7
8. Outside in the parking lot. Tears welled up in my eyes as I surveyed the ruins and tried to imagine what was.
9. Did you seriously cry inside the terminal
10. I went to the devastated wreck of this former architectural masterpiece last summer and literally broke down and wept. Smashed windows, weeds etc. It looked like the set of a horror film. The immediate surrounding neighborhood is in the worst ghetto I've ever seen in my life and I'm very familiar with Bed Sty and South Philly. :-(
11. Went in through that old baggage tunnel last winter and found a stairwell and starting climbing.. when my buddy stepped foot on the fourth floor (Where the alarms start) it start a wailing siren super, SUPER, loud. Scared me worse than anything else.. I screamed lol.
12. Get rid of air travel. I would take a train anyday. They still do it in Germany
13. That's cool
14. I took a train out of there in the 1960's New York Central's Empire State Express. My family owned a number of taverns on Fillmore, East Lovejoy, before is became Paderewski and finally at 350 Paderewski. That last one was in a building that was moved from the site of the terminal and grafted on the front of an existing building. I can remember walking from there with my grandfather to buy the NY Times as it came off the train. I remember the E.Side before it was the war zone it is now.
15. They've restored the main part inside so far
16. why dont you contact amtrac and fix a deal with them like give 25% cash flow if you actualy can get money from them and make the concourse live again with amtrac part ownership and part of there name in the title like buffalo central amtrac terminal
17. to think that buffalo's east side used to be lively and prosperous with a huge train station and the way it is now almost makes me cry.
18. Well that good to hear. I think other major cities are preserving there History like keeping the past alive though the present. The Nashville Grand Central station is a great example. I'll send you a url.
19. How awfull it is to see a symbol of power and strength just fad away though the oceans of time. And so this can be said about many land marks in American. I hope the this building can be restored again Good luck and God Bless
20. I parked on Newton, then walked across the tracks over to that creepy subway looking entrance, then that takes you up into the terminal.