Erie’s Buffalo Main Street Station

An early 1900s photograph of the Erie Railroad Main Street station in Buffalo, NY. Steamtown National Historic Site Archives, found on rootsweb.com.

Main Street was an Erie Railroad passenger station in Buffalo, NY on the Erie’s Niagara Falls Branch. The station was located on the east side of the Erie’s tracks to the north of the Main Street crossing, as shown below.

The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad tracks shown on the map below to the right of the Erie tracks can be seen on the embankment in the background of the photo above.

Detail of a 1916 Sanborn fire insurance map showing the location of the Erie Railroad’s Main Street station in Buffalo, NY. Library of Congress collection.