Orchard Park station is a historic

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located at Orchard Park in

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. It was constructed in 1911 and served passenger trains until the 1950s.

History

The property includes the passenger depot and brick freight house both constructed in 1911, tracks, a concrete

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, a semaphore signal, a portion of the entrance drive, and four period rail cars. The station's plan is based largely on one designed by

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for the 1884 station at

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, which was demolished in 1961 after 80 years in service. ''Note:'' This includes an
''Accompanying photographs''
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Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway The Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburgh Railway was one of the more than ten thousand railroad companies founded in North America. It lasted much longer than most, serving communities from the shore of Lake Ontario to the center of western Penns ...

(BR&P) was acquired by the

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830. Merchants from Baltimore, which had benefited to some extent from the construction of ...

, Orchard Park Station became a B&O station. It was a flag stop on day and nighttime trains on the BRP route between Lackawanna Terminal in Buffalo and Baltimore and Ohio Station in Pittsburgh. The B&O terminated passenger service in 1955, eight years before the

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took financial control of the B&O. Freight service operated from Orchard Park until 1979. The station was listed on the

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in 2007 as the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad Station.

References

External links

Buffalo Rochester & Pittsburgh Depot, Orchard Park, New York
- Western New York Railway Historical Society Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Railway stations in the United States opened in 1911 Museums in Erie County, New York Railroad museums in New York (state) Orchard Park BRandP Former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad stations 1911 establishments in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Erie County, New York {{NewYork-museum-stub