[WZ1]

High Definition BUFFALO including floors 1-7 inside the Buffalo Central Terminal

So we start out at the terminal
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p227639362-4.jpg

I entered through the basment
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p117192110-4.jpg

that brought me in to some sort of kitchen/bathroom combo...
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p259172576-4.jpg

I think this was a cafeteria or merchant area.. right off the kitchen..
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p103356678-4.jpg

The Main Lobby
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p458757913-4.jpg

Tickets?
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p287508145-4.jpg

On to the second floor
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p191520254-4.jpg

Main Terminal from second floor..
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p169078079-4.jpg

Above floor 2 I am not sure what floors the other pics are on, it was too dark and confusing.. but i know i made it to floor 7
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p504294197-4.jpg

http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p206882620-4.jpg

http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p191520254-4.jpg

http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p535734926-4.jpg

There was a lot of trash around..
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p284673004-4.jpg

http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p334836787-4.jpg

Interesting View..
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p536631982-4.jpg

Time to go to the loading docks and where the tracks used to be..
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p504324495-4.jpg

http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p389793832-4.jpg

gotta pee?
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p167253480-4.jpg

how bout here?
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p25555472-4.jpg

http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p284340047-4.jpg

http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p305483697-4.jpg

I actually went in to the basment.. so dark.. lucky i had a flashlight..

http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p85365962-4.jpg

http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p128441851-4.jpg

http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p113437320-4.jpg

on to the High Def Buffalo stuff..
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p51432312-4.jpg

http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p489894421-4.jpg

http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p389288640-4.jpg

http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p353427585-4.jpg

http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p535452092-4.jpg

http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p436763414-4.jpg

http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p195282207-4.jpg

That is a lot of seagulls
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p317071516-4.jpg

Rand..
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http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p336506026-4.jpg

http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p352082779-4.jpg

http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p204801418-4.jpg

http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p157777575-4.jpg

And ill finish off the night with some sunsets and a hockey game.. sens won 3-1

Lake Erie..
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p60965739-4.jpg

http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p430493076-4.jpg

Inside HSBC Arena..
http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p334142125-4.jpg

hope you all enjoyed.. comments suggestions?

[DetroitSky]

Very nice photos. I love Buffalo...

[atlantaguy]

The station is just amazing...thanks for sharing. Very beautiful and depressing at the same time.

Have there ever been any concrete plans to do any adaptive re-use of this gem?

[gripja]

Damn, whats Buffalo gonna end up doin to that awesome building? If they wait any longer it looks like all they will be able to do is tear it down. WZ1, I know that ur gonna enter the new photo contest -- others better get to steppin if they are going to get anything that will beat the Central Terminal.

[flar]

So sad to see great buildings abandoned like that.

[LSyd]

wow...awesome. thanks for the great pics.

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[Lexy]

Excellent use of the fish eye and excellent thread! I love this type of stuff.

[gregduh]

Damn, whats Buffalo gonna end up doin to that awesome building?

http://www.buffalocentralterminal.org/ will give you all the information you need.

[Ex-Ithacan]

Helluva tour WZ1. I say move it to Ithaca and renovate to condos & student housing. Such a beautiful old bldg. Thanks for the tour.

[BuffaloSam]

Im speetchless, great pics :worship: :tup:

[Lecom]

Sexy shots. Great job on getting inside the terminal.

[JMancuso]

off the mark. that terminal building is a gem...even in its diminished state.

[innov8]

Those are nice... I love this stuff :cheers:

[WIGS]

great pics as always WZ1!

[keninhalifax]

Great stuff! Curious -- when was the terminal abandoned?

[urban_encounter]

Incredible photos WZ1...

[DC83]

Wow... awesome pix!!!
Reminds me of the Terminal in Detroit that's also abandoned.

Where in Buffalo is the terminal? I don't recognize it?? And I've been downtown Buffalo a cpl times!

[myord]

One day when the Earth gets overpopulated all those buildings gonna get rebuilt...

[WZ1]

Ken - abandoned in 1979.... And the terminal is in the "hood" on the east side of Buffalo, somewhat a high risk neighbourhood, this is part of the reason it has never been developed.

[CBBC]

Ken - abandoned in 1979.... And the terminal is in the "hood" on the east side of Buffalo, somewhat a high risk neighbourhood, this is part of the reason it has never been developed.

it was the hood after the trains left...being in the East Side grit was an effect of the joblessness...not that being the effect on he Terminal.

Basically the station was built to handle a city of 1,000,000 and a metro of 3,000,000...Buffalo's original direction around 1940. The St. Lawrence Seaway and Welland Canal moved shipping with boats around Buffalo, not thru it...and trains gave way to trucks by the late 50's. :)

[kznyc2k]

Wow, great thread. I was a UB student from '01-03, and I went exploring the Central Terminal with a couple of friends back in late '02. We couldn't find any way to gain access to the concourse level, and instead we wandered around the two/three lower levels for a while. Most memorable were the lobby area to the far east side of the building (I believe this is where the "dignitary" stop let the important people off) and a bathroom/shower stall room just off it where the whole thing was in a much more advanced state of decay than the rest of the place (as if it were possible). The other thing I remember most was that there were a lot of newpapers in the rubble on the (lowest) floor that dated to somewhere right around late 1984/early '85.

[LMich]

Great tour. The lobby of Buffalo Central Terminal seems to be in much better shape than the lobby of the Michigan Central Station in Detroit.

[LoKKiTo]

How do you take such clear/High Quality photos???

[LMich]

Probably, with a high-quality camera...

[Tony]

Fantastic Fantastic!! Those are wicked BCT shots.

btw: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=121688

[beesbees]

Amazing!

[ArchMadness]

This thread is definately a treat. Thank you for your photos.

[-AX-]

Interesting!

Is that highrise abandonned too?

http://mattshaverphotography.zenfolio.com/img/p489894421-4.jpg

[JMancuso]

^ no, that is city hall.

[boden]

Wonder what will happen to it in the future?

[KevinFromTexas]

Oh my. Best Buffalo thread ever. :tup:

[PhillyRising]

Wow...how does a building of that caliber be abandoned and left to rot? That main concourse is an amazing space.

The sheer stupidity that was the many descisions made by people in the older cities in the 50's, 60's and 70's in allowing things to just rot and decline without giving any thought of a new use for something that is not useful for it's original use?

[WIGS]

1 reason why Central Terminal is in its sad state:
location
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/2778/locationofcentraltermingb3.jpg

[WIGS]

for further info. on this great building:
http://www.buffalocentralterminal.org/

[WZ1]

the other problem is that the immediate neighbourhood around the terminal is the ghetto.. its a really tough area.

[wrabbit]

Whoa - great pics, but how the heck did you manage to get in?

Usually, big abandoned buildings like this house squatters/vagrants, but I don't see much evidence of that here - recent crackdown, perhaps?

Anyway, some really nice shots - thanks for posting.

[matt602]

Great tour. The lobby of Buffalo Central Terminal seems to be in much better shape than the lobby of the Michigan Central Station in Detroit.

Exactly what I was going to say. MCS is in horrible condition, and that's putting it lightly. The restoration group that owns BCT should consider themselves lucky that BCT isn't in half the crappy shape MCS is in. (and of course kudos to them for keeping it in good shape)

[Lenin]

Wow. My heart just broke. Buffalo Central Terminal and Detroit's Book Tower are the two most depressing highrises in America for me.... Such amazing potential. I find it spooky that in one of your shots the "Ticket" stalls are still visible; a throwback to better days. I can only imagine throngs of people pushing past each other in a rush in that main foyer seventy years ago. Amazing shots. Beautiful and sad. Good work.

[direfloyd]

Amazing pictures! The station is removed from downtown just like MCS also.

[Canasian]

Wow! great thread WZI, one of the best of Buffalo yet. I always liked western NY. I hope they find some adoptive reuse for that building some day..... What kind of wide angle lens are you using?

[STLgasm]

One of the best Buffalo threads ever! I love that city, and the train station is amazing.

[Evo5Boise]

That was an amazing thread! Awesome pics.