BR&P Yard Office - Rochester

So, was this building, visible when entering the airport, just a yard office or was it a station too?

I know there was a similar one in Salamanca, as well as a separate station/freight house. There was also the station in Rochester and Lincoln Park. Thanks.

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I did try to research the BR&P office buy my resources on the BR&P/B&O in Rochester are limited. it was ayard office back in the 1970s but I couldn't go back any further so i don't know. Sorry

I would research public passenger train timetables from that era (1920's-1950's). If the BR&P yard office/ freight-house in Gates by the modern Rochester Airport was a passenger stop I think it would be referenced in those public timetables.

Given the relative lack of folks living around there "back in the day" I suspect it was simply a yard office. My understanding is that the Lincoln Park roundhouse was where the BR&P took care of their Passenger Train Locomotives. And their nearby yard was where they stored/assembled their passenger trains.

I think the BR&P Yard Office by the Rochester Airport was just that, a Yard Office. Their Passenger trains might have made a "flagstop" there but I doubt it.

Or one could turn to Mike Zollitsch's fine book "Buffalo Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway In Color Volume 1". On page 7 is a list of Rochester Division stations from 1922. Brooks Avenue (MP 3.4) is not listed as a station. The book later notes that Maplewood (MP 5.4) was a passenger stop, as was Brookdale (MP 7.6, a flagstop).

My July 1930 BR&P passenger timetable lists "Brooks Avenue" as a station stop. I would assume the structure we call the yard office also served as the passenger station in those days.

For some reason, the structure does not show up on this 1924 plat map:

http://photo.libraryweb.org/rochimag/rp ... m00058.jpg

But the station/yard office is clearly labeled in this 1931 edition ("Subway" refers to an undergrade passage for Brooks Ave.):

http://photo.libraryweb.org/rochimag/rp ... m00640.jpg

Additional resources:

http://www.libraryweb.org/rochimag/maps/bound.htm

-otto-

Otto Vondrak wrote:My July 1930 BR&P passenger timetable lists "Brooks Avenue" as a station stop. I would assume the structure we call the yard office also served as the passenger station in those days.-otto-

Interesting, Otto! That would suggest that either the condensed TT in Mike's book is incomplete, or that things changed in the intervening 8 years and they began handling passengers there. I'll do some digging and see what we can learn.

When was the last passenger train out of what is now Nick Tahous?