Syracuse station was the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western's railroad station in

Syracuse, New York Syracuse ( ) is a City (New York), city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, Onondaga County, New York, United States. It is the fifth-most populous city in the state of New York following New York City, Buffalo, New York, Buffa ...

. It was housed in different buildings in succession. It hosted trains going north to

Oswego, New York Oswego () is a city in Oswego County, New York, United States. The population was 16,921 at the 2020 census. Oswego is located on Lake Ontario in Upstate New York, about 35 miles (55km) northwest of Syracuse. It promotes itself as "The Port C ...

on the Lake Ontario coast by way of the DLW's acquisition, the former

Oswego and Syracuse Railroad The Oswego and Syracuse Railroad was formed April 29, 1839, and the route was surveyed during the summer of that year. The Company was fully organized March 25, 1847. The road was opened on May 14, 1848, and ran a total distance of from Syracuse, ...

; and it also hosted trains going south to

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on the route of the former

Syracuse and Binghamton Railroad The Syracuse and Binghamton Railroad was established on August 18, 1851, and opened for business on October 18, 1854. The road merged in 1856 into Syracuse and Southern Railroad which was renamed to Syracuse, Binghamton and New York Railroad when ...

, and further (via connection) to

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History

The first station was located at Onondaga and Clinton Streets. The second station (225 West Jefferson Street in the

Armory Square Armory Square is a small neighborhood on the west side of Downtown Syracuse, New York. It began life as a busy commercial and industrial area just to the west of the central city. After World War II, Syracuse's central city became less and les ...

neighborhood) was built in 1877 and was used to 1940. During that earlier period trains ran on the street level through Syracuse. Per new city regulations, the DLW's tracks were raised to become elevated by 1940. The third building, 500 South Clinton Street, also in Armory Square. Designed in the

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style, it was built in 1940-1941 and was used until 1958. It was designed by local architect Frederick B. O'Connor, and was "completely fireproof," and has a granite base, and the remaining exterior was built of buff brick and limestone.Evamaria Hardin, 'Syracuse Landmarks: An AIA Guide to Downtown and Historic Neighborhoods, Syracuse University Press, 1993, p. 51 Until the mid-1940s, the station was staffed by both freight and passenger agents. The station for the

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, passing east–west through Syracuse, was about one mile away. By 1946, passenger train traffic to and from the south would decrease to two trains in each direction: a night train, the ''

Interstate Express The ''Interstate Express'' was a long-distance passenger train operating between Syracuse, New York, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, jointly operated by the Reading Railroad, the Central Railroad of New Jersey and the Delaware, Lackawanna and West ...

'' to

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and a day train to Hoboken. (Continuing south, the ''Interstate Express'' made a connection in Binghamton with the ''New York Mail'' for traveling to Hoboken.) Additionally, by 1949, trains north to Oswego had been discontinued.Lackawanna Railroad timetable, April 25, 1954, Tables 7, 9 http://viewoftheblue.com/photography/timetables/DLW042554.pdfPenney Vanderbilt, 'Erie-Lackawanna Railroad,' April 16, 2017 https://penneyvanderbilt.wordpress.com/2017/04/16/erie-lackawanna-railroad/ In 1958, the DLW discontinued passenger trains to Syracuse, and the station became used as a bus station. An extension to the building was added in approximately 1961. As of 2022, the building has been used for several decades as an architectural firm's offices.

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