BR&P wrote:Brad, some lunch hour go across the street to the library and see what they have for local history. I think every town in the country has a picture of "the old depot" somewhere and maybe we can put this one to rest. I can't state with 100% certainty but I really believe the old shed mentioned above was only a freight house and not the depot.
Pretty sure that's how Hamilton-Dann put the book together. A lot of the photos are loaned from historical societies, libraries, and other local history books. Two of the Victor photos came from the Victor Town Historian.
"Close to main street the Lehigh purchased a large area for trackage. From the mainline, switches and sidings extended to freight buildings, and as a result of the Lehigh's presence, Victor became a focus for shipment - mainly potatoes. Because of increasing volume of freight, it was necessary for the agent to reside on the premises, so the depot was a combination passenger/freight, a two-story with living quarters for the agent and his family."
There is a later photo showing the Black Diamond, going away, not dated but it appears to be 1930s or 1940's - engine looks to be steam and an auto is just barely visible waiting for it to pass. It seems to have been taken from the roof or second story of a building at School St.
It shows a second structure was next to the tracks 150 feet or so west of the station. Also wood, there are no windows visible; the peak of the roof is slightly higher - the two structures could probably be mistaken for one another. I was never in Victor to see the layout before Adams St. was built, but it could be this is the structure that was burned and the actual station was gone already. It certainly did not have the one-story addition as the station did.