Tannersville
General information
LocationTannersville, Greene County. New York
Tracks1
History
OpenedJune 1883[1][2]
ClosedJanuary 22, 1940[3][2]
Key dates
February 21, 1940Station agent eliminated[4]
March 2, 1966Station depot burned[5]
Services
Preceding station New York Central Railroad Following station
Haines Falls
toward Kaaterskill
 Kaaterskill Branch Kaaterskill Junction
toward Phoenicia

Tannersville Station was a train station in Tannersville, New York operated by the Ulster and Delaware Railroad. It ceased operation in 1940 and was burned down on March 2, 1966.[5]

History

The original station at Tannersvile, New York, branch MP 14.6, was architecturally similar to the Lanesville station; a small building with a platform on each end, was also torn down in 1899, after the Kaaterskill Railroad was standard-gauged by the U&D in 1899.

The new Tannersville station was a fabricated station made for the U&D in the early 1900s. This station had the typical frame of a U&D pre-fab station, but had three platforms; one on the left, one on the right, and another as an extension at the back of the station.

Tannersville was considered to be a successful year-round station, although branches of the U&D later became summer-only operations.

Tannersville's terminal was still standing after U&D's branches were abandoned in 1939 and scrapped in 1940. The terminal was then purchased by the town of Hunter in order to function as town offices and a snowplow garage.

The terminal was razed by a fire on March 2, 1966, along with three trucks and power equipment.[5]

Bibliography

  • Interstate Commerce Commission (1940). Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States (Finance Reports). Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
  • National Railroad Adjustment Board (1941). Awards 1451 to 1550 Interpretations Third Division. La Grange, Illinois: Suburban Printers and Publishers Inc. Retrieved March 1, 2020.

References

  1. ↑ Hibbard, F.B. (July 3, 1883). "Kaaterskill Railroad". The New York Tribune. p. 6. Retrieved May 6, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. 1 2 Interstate Commerce Commission 1940, p. 156.
  3. ↑ "Mountain Branches Allowed to Suspend". The Kingston Daily Freeman. January 22, 1940. p. 1. Retrieved May 6, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  4. ↑ National Railroad Adjustment Board 1941, p. 212.
  5. 1 2 3 Wilson, R.D. (December 31, 1966). "Death, Blaze Provided Ominous Start for 1966". The Kingston Daily Freeman. pp. 13, 20. Retrieved April 30, 2019 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon

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