![]() In 1977, the freight railroad attempted to sell the station and surrounding land for $85,000. Under the aegis of Conrail, the station was closed in March, 1976 when freight operations from Ghent to Millerton were terminated.Ĭonrail utilized the station for storage in the mid-1970s. The station remained as an active station for passenger service south along the NYC's Harlem Line until March 20, 1972. The last passenger service to Chatham on the east-west B&A route was daily 'Beeliner' (Budd Rail Diesel Car/"RDC") service between Albany and Boston, in 1965. The station house was originally staffed by a ticket agent, but the ticket office was closed by the NYC in 1960. The New York Central Railroad (NYC) took over the B&A in 1900. A prominent bow window faces trackside and once was used as part of the stationmaster's office. The walls are made of lightly colored rusticated stone, with window and door frames, sills and lintels of contrasting brownstone. The Richardsonian Romanesque building features a Dutch gable roof with wide eaves and colonnade porticos that extend out east and west along the tracks over the low platform. They designed the Chatham Station, which was opened for service along the B&A's Boston to Albany line in 1887. Richardson died unexpectedly in 1886 and the remaining station design work was transferred to the Boston-based architecture firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge. In 1881, the B&A hired Henry Hobson Richardson to design several stations for the railroad. By late 1870, a series of company mergers led to the formation of the Boston and Albany Railroad (B&A). The Harlem Extension of the New York and Harlem Railroad was built to Chatham by 1869. ![]() Though it no longer serves as a train station, the rail line alongside it is still a very-active mainline for CSX freight rail between Selkirk Yard, south of Albany, and Worcester, Massachusetts.Įarly-20th-century postcard of the stationīefore the station house was built, rail service to Chatham began on December 21, 1841, when the first portion of the Albany and West Stockbridge Railroad was put into service between Greenbush (east of Albany) and Chatham. ![]() The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and currently serves as a branch office of the National Union Bank of Kinderhook. It served as a junction for service that radiated to Rensselaer, New York, to the northwest Hudson, New York, to the southwest Vermont, to the northeast, and Pittsfield, Massachusetts to the east and New York City, to the south. ![]() It had originally served trains of the Boston and Albany Railroad, then the New York Central Railroad and the Rutland Railway. It was the final stop for Harlem Line trains. Union Station served the residents of Chatham, New York, from 1887 to 1972 as a passenger station and until 1976 as a freight station. ![]()
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