Buffalo's Central Terminal, with the city skyline and Lake Erie in the distance.
Looming in the foreground of this photograph is the imposing structure of Buffalo's Central Terminal, once the arriving point for all of Buffalo's passenger rail travel. The trains stopped coming there over two decades ago, however, and the facility has since fallen into disrepair and neglect. In recent years, volunteer efforts have focused on cleaning and restoring the Terminal, although no one is sure just what use the building would serve. From the image, one can see that the "Central" moniker is a bit of a misnomer, as downtown lies several miles distant. The Terminal actually lies in Buffalo's East Side, which is the city's most impoverished and crime-ridden section. Still, it is a beautiful building that, like so many in this city, deserves a better fate than what it has received.
I was reminded of the Central Terminal by Mandelei, who linked it just the other day. The photo above links to the Central Terminal's current website, which contains a pretty impressive gallery of "Then and Now" pics.
(A story I've been working on, incidentally, uses the Terminal as inspiration for one of its locations within my fictional Great Lakes city of New Mowbray, Michigan. Basically I've created a city wherein I can transport a lot of Buffalo-type stuff without having to actually be accurate about Buffalo. Trivia break: The fictional city of Port Charles, NY, the setting for the soap opera General Hospital, is sometimes said to have been modeled on either Buffalo or Rochester.)
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