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NFTA Rail Maintenance Yard
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 steamships. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Park Avenue
South Park Avenue is a street connecting Buffalo to Hamburg in New York, United States. South Park Avenue is the most important street in South Buffalo and is the primary alternative to the Buffalo Skyway (New York State Route 5) when traveling between the city and the southern suburbs. South Park Avenue is U.S. Route 62 between Bailey Avenue and the southern terminus. Route {, class="wikitable" !Mile !Name , - , 0 , KeyBank Center , - , 0.1 , NFTA Rail Maintenance Yard , - , 2.9 , South Park Avenue becomes part of U.S. Route 62 , - , 5.0 , Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens , - , 5.2 , Our Lady of Victory Basilica , - , 5.6 , Bridge over Smoke Creek , - , 7.7 , New York State Route 179 , - , 9.4 , U.S. Route 20 U.S. Route 20 or U.S. Highway 20 (US 20) is an east–west United States Numbered Highway that stretches from the Pacific Northwest east to New England. The "0" in its route number indicates that US 20 is a major coast-to-coast route. S ... , - , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |