The building is epic, built as it was at the height of the golden era of rail travel. Opened in 1929, the grandiose Buffalo Central Terminal brought all the trains stopping in Buffalo together at a brand new union station. Buffalo’s answer to Michigan Central: Buffalo Central Terminal This lack of connectivity was yet another reason I gave the Lakeshore Limited a miss coming from Detroit. Depew Station courtesy of Google Streetview. That’s for a trip that is 20 minutes by car or under 3 hours if you fancy the walk.

Getting from Depew to Downtown on transit requires two buses and somewhere between 80 and 120 minutes, depending on your enthusiasm for navigating American stroads on foot. It has plenty of parking but is sadly barely connected to Downtown by Buffalo’s transit system. Depew is in a light industrial area on the Buffalo urban fringe a few miles from Buffalo Niagara International Airport. The Lakeshore Limited coming-from/bound-for Chicago sadly doesn’t pass by this section of track and has instead been relegated to the distant suburban Buffalo Depew Amshack. The view from Platform 1 of 1 at Buffalo Exchange Street Amtrak Station. Trains coming-from/bound-for Canada and Niagara call at Buffalo Exchange Street, a classic Amshack located directly under the I-190 flyover which is, at least, centrally located Downtown and close to the LRT. Instead, Amtrak trains call at one or both of two different stations (spoiler: not for your convenience). In a story that will surprise absolutely no one Buffalo, like Detroit…and Cleveland…and countless other rustbelt towns and cities, no longer has rail service to its grand old train station. Or I could go straight to Syracuse and spend an extra day there while I awaited the arrival of my compadre.įor reasons I will come to shortly, after much deliberation I settled on Option 3.I could head to Rochester and check out the drag scene there that I had heard so much about,.

I could stay in Buffalo another night and get tickets to see Jagged Little Pill, the Alanis Morissette Broadway musical that was in town that night in the aforementioned theatre district,.

I had one spare day up my sleeve and three different ideas about how to fill it: My leisurely ambling East had almost succeeded in filling in the time until my rendezvous in Syracuse. If you haven’t already, it’s probably best to start with Part 1.

Free bus ride to downstream casino