NFTA Rail Maintenance Yard

Car Barn, Maintenance Facility and Administration

1971 view of DL&W Terminal, before its main building was demolished.

Location

29 South Park Avenue
Buffalo, New York

Coordinates

42°52′22″N 78°52′27″W / 42.87278°N 78.87417°WCoordinates: 42°52′22″N 78°52′27″W / 42.87278°N 78.87417°W

Owned by

Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority

Line(s)

Buffalo Metro Rail

Tracks

Construction

Platform levels

Parking

Employees only

History

Opened

1917(DL&W)
1985(NFTA)

Rebuilt

1982

Electrified

yes

Previous names

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Terminal

Services

Preceding station		NFTA	Following station
Terminus		Metro Rail	Special Events toward University
	Former services
Preceding station		Baltimore and Ohio	Following station
Lackawanna toward Pittsburgh		Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway	Terminus
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Terminus		Main Line	East Buffalo toward Hoboken

The Metro Rail Maintenance Yard or "South Park Terminal" houses Buffalo Metro Rail's cars in a train shed at the former Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad terminal in the Cobblestone District of Buffalo, New York. The property is located at the southernmost fringe of the Central Business District. The station was built in 1917, and was designed to handle both steam trains and steam ships.^[1] The storage and maintenance facility was converted to its present condition in 1982, following the demolition of the former main terminal concourse building "headhouse" of the DL&W Terminal in 1979.

The lower level of the sheds are used to store the rail cars when they are not in use. The upper level is mostly empty space, consisting of the concrete troughs where tracks once stood and their platforms. However, some of it is used for offices, a train operators' lounge and storage.

Numerous proposals for adaptive reuse of the unused portion of the upper level of the terminal sheds have been floated publicly by various parties, including: a casino, a farmers market and loft apartments,^[2] as well as an additional Metro Rail station with shops and commuter parking.

In 1982, an addition was built on the east end of the terminal building, which has a modern rail maintenance shop for servicing the rail fleet. This addition also contains some administrative offices.

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