NEB&W Guide to Cohoes, NY - Depot & South

Last Update: 2009-06-11

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The Depot

• The station was a classic Queen Anne style, built in 1883.
  • [Track side looking southwest. Postcard view.]
  • [Prototype view c. 1930. From the NEB&W D&H Collection.]
  • [Prototype view c. 1931 looking north along the tracks. From the NEB&W D&H Collection.]
  • [Floor plan c. 1941.]
  • [Street side looking northeast. Postcard view.]
  • [Street side looking northeast again, but more easterly. Postcard view.]
  • [Street side looking southeast c. 2004.]
  • [Close-up of the entrance c. 2004. Note the Queen Anne touches like the fishscale shingles, Ruskinian window, and heavy beams suggesting half-timbering.]
  Eventually we plan on scratchbuilding an accurate model, but in the short haul, we are kitbashing the Walthers "city station" model.
  • [Proposed Walthers model.]
  • [Walthers model.]
  • [Model being kitbashed, Jan. '06. (Brown colored brick sections are additions.)]
  • [Model being kitbashed, Jan. '06. The subroof is made of plain styrene.]

New Freight House

• The new freight house was built in 1914. From the NEB&W D&H Collection.
  • [Prototype view c. 1931, looking north.]
  • [Prototype view c. 1970's.]
  • [Prototype view c. 1980's by Jeff English. (Note the switchback lead for Peck's along the right.)]
  • [Photo, 2007.]
  • [North or office end, c. 1970's.]
  • [North end, c. 2004.]
  • [Close-up of the door c. 1980's with Jeff English holding up our 6 foot stick for scaling purposes.]
  • [Close-up of the door c. 2002.]
  • [Close-up of the platform.]
  • [Model view c. Jan. '04, with the freight house kitbash (from the Walthers kit) underway.]
  • [Model view c. Jan. '05 (a year later). Will Gill is adding the distinctive end trim.]
  • [Model view c. Feb. '05. Will feels he's taken the weathering too far, so he plans on backtracking a little.]
  • [Model view c. Feb. '05, close-up. Photo by Will Gill.]

• The freight house area was surrounded by a long concrete retaining wall.
  • [Corner of Saratoga Street and Pine looking west, c. 1980's, with Jeff English holding up our 6 foot stick for scaling purposes. (That strange diagonal slash is a crease in the print.)]
  • [North end, 2007.]
  • [Photo, 2007.]
  • [Photo, 2007.]
  • [Photo, 2007.]
  • [Photo, 2007.]

Peck's Coal

• Peck's Coal was opposite the depot and St. John's Church. These photos are looking southeast. We still would like a photo of this coal dealer from the Saratoga Street side, a view looking west.
  • [Photocopy c. 1914, street side.]
  • [Prototype view by Jim Shaughnessy, c. 1951.]
  • [Close-up of Peck's.]
  • [Prototype view by Gerrit Bruins c. 1960's.]
  • [Valuation map.]
  • [Trestle c. 1973.]
  • [Trestle c. 1983.]
  • [Trestle c. 1983, another view.]
  • [Close-up of the trestle hopper.]
  • [Bigger (just for Melanie).]
  • [Another view the trestle hopper.]
  • [Bigger.]
  • [Trestle.]
  • [Trestle details.]
  • [Trestle details.]
  • [Trestle details.]
  • [Tom Amrine photo c. Oct. 2004 of our model of Cohoes, with Will Gill's scratchbuilt model of Peck's in the foreground.]

• We have no clue as to what the office building looked like. We are kitbashing it from the IHC Texaco station, no. 4108.
  • [IHC model, courtesy Wm.K. Walthers.]
  • [In progress kitbash Feb. '05.]

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