From the start, buildings have played a critical role in the development of railroads. From rural depots like our Industry depot to magnificent stations like Grand Central Station, many buildings served both the railroad and the general public. Other structures such as towers, crossing shanties, tool houses, and freight houses served in many different roles for the railroads and their employees.

The museum is working on preserving several different types of buildings and structures. These include the cornerstone of our museum, the Erie Railroad's Industry, New York station, a New York Central crossing shanty, and a Rochester, Lockport and Buffalo Railway waiting room.

The museum has another important building, one which did not serve any other railroad but our own, but one which we hope will provide us a capability to allow us to preserve our historic structures, our railroad equipment and more: our Restoration Building. Built new by the museum, we continue to outfit this building to help support our maintenance and restoration efforts.

We invite you to come on in and learn more about our various buildings and see what is going on with each of them.