My new book Railway Depots, Stations & Terminals will feature New Jersey’s Hoboken Terminal. This will be published by Voyageur Press in a few months time. Below is an excerpt of my text along with a few photos I exposed with Jack May on January 15, 2015.
William H. Truesdale assumed control of the anthracite hauling Delaware, Lackawanna & Western in 1899. During the early twentieth century he transformed DL&W into a modern railroad with state of the art infrastructure. His skillful management and massive capital improvements were designed to lower the railroad’s costs and make it more competitive. During this Lackawanna renaissance Kenneth M. Murchison was hired to design the railroad’s finest passenger facilities. Murchison, was a respected New York architect who earned several important commissions for railroad stations in the early twentieth century. Murchison had studied in Paris and made prominent use of the Beaux-Arts style in his railway architecture. Among his significant early projects was Delaware, Lackawanna & Western’s new Hoboken Terminal on the west shore of the Hudson River across from New York City.
![Bush style sheds were first developed for Hoboken and survive to the present day.](https://i0.wp.com/briansolomon.com/trackingthelight/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Hoboken_Terminal_IMG_0132.jpg?resize=474%2C316)
![Main waiting room at Hoboken.](https://i0.wp.com/briansolomon.com/trackingthelight/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Hoboken_Terminal_IMG_0104.jpg?resize=474%2C711)
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Rode the “Lake Cities” out of here to Chicago back in late December, 1969. It was going to come off sometime in January, and I wanted to ride it before it did. The great hall looks familiar.