A Few Quick Photos From Amtrak Erie

Once I left Harborcreek and the GE Test Track, I drove to Downtown Erie, home of Erie's Amtrak Station Stop which is located in the former New York Central Erie Union Station. The station building in its current form opened in 1927 having been redesigned from an original structure that opened in the 1800's. It is a Union Station as it not only hosted New York Central trains but the Pennsylvania Railroad also had trains stop here as well. Today, the station building is used by multiple businesses including a restaurant. The station features a waiting room for Amtrak passengers and it is staffed by a caretaker who assists passengers with boarding the train however no tickets are sold at Erie station. The waiting room and platform is only open during overnight hours (the sign in the window on the door of the waiting room said Midnight to 7:45am). I parked my car on 14th street at a parking meter and took a few photos here before I had to make the drive out to my hotel in suburban Cleveland in preparation for my final destination on this trip of Sandusky, OH.

Erie's Union Station with its main entrance which now houses a restaurant & pub called "The Brewerie".

A view of the doors to the Amtrak passenger waiting room. Yes, that's my ugly reflection in the glass
next to the "Closed" sign on the right side door!

This westbound Norfolk Southern manifest train came by with EMD SD60 #6699 leading a Canadian National unit on NS'
track that was installed in this area in the late 1990's so that NS could pull its track out of nearby 19th Street where
trains were required to negotiate operating over territory shared with a city street! Well, I said it was only a few photos,
now I'm off to Ohio as Cedar Point opens a new show tonight, see ya at Luminosity!