Last Update: 2009-06-11
Layout Photo Gallery Table of Contents
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.]
- [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.
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.]
NEB&W Guide to Cohoes, NY - Depot & South