After roaming around the village we decided to finally visit the Buffalo Central Terminal. The Buffalo Central Terminal opened in 1929 and serviced up to 200 passenger trains a day, which came out to about 91,420 NYC passenger trains that year. After the stock market crash and the Great Depression, the number of passenger trains in and out of Buffalo began to diminish. By 1956, most of the NYC stations were put up for sale and in 1979, the Buffalo Central Terminal was sold. In 1984 the Terminal was placed on state and national Registers of Historic Places. Today the Buffalo Central Terminal is still on the main line and is only 2.5 miles from downtown Buffalo. It is not located in one of Buffalo's nicest areas, so keeping it up is proving to be a challenge for the Central Terminal Restoration Corporation. Every so often their will be different events there to help promote the location and gain awareness of the building in hopes to restore it.
As most of you may, or may not know, I am a train buff. I grew up with trains and continue my interest with trains with model railroading. So to finally visit the Buffalo Central Terminal was amazing. I have posted a few of the pictures that we took while there. The pictures do not do the building any justice.
This is at the back of the Terminal where the passengers would pick up a taxi, bus or waiting car.
Another shot from indoors. 
Another shot from the front.On Sunday, Teresa and I ran the "Runnin' With Jesus 5K" at the Grace Lutheran Church in Hamburg, NY. This race was the second 5K race of a three race series. This was Teresa's first road race since her hip injury while training for the Buffalo 1/2 Marathon. It was a beautiful day for running. 
We both had really good races. Teresa looked strong coming across the finish line with no signs that her hip was bothering her. So that is good news. 
I took 1:18 seconds off my time from when I ran this course in March, so I was happy about that. And to top off our great races, we both came home with some hardware. Final results are the following:
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Place Name Time Pace InGroup InSex
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26. Dennis Hall 0:22:48 0:07:20 3/M25-29 23/M
79. Teresa Hall 0:29:25 0:09:28 2/F25-29 29/F
5 comments:
Sounds like a nice weekend! Sharp looking truck in the background!! :)
Jenn
brodo...i'm jealous. have you had their warm goat cheese salad? yum.
In true form to our twin-dom Tahera that is exactly what I ordered. Go figure right?
Hey Dennis, nice job to both of you on your race.
And thanks for the Buffalo history lesson. I always hope Buffalo will return to where it was in its glory days.
-Mike Fitz-d
It took me this long to get here and that long to leave a comment. Denny dude...lose the suds or T is gonna catch you! Hope to catch you two at the Nov. Trinity Trott.
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