Tannersville Railroad Station (New York)

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There were two stations that served the town of Tannersville, New York.

[edit] Ulster and Delaware

The original station at Tannersvile, New York, branch MP 14.6, was a lot like the Lanesville Station; a small building with a platform on each end. This station was torn down in 1899, after the Kaaterskill Railroad was standardized by the U&D in 1899. The new Tannersville station was one of the pre-fabricated stations made for the U&D in the early 1900s. This station had the typical frame of a U&D pre-fab station, but had three platforms; one on the left, one on the right, and another one that stuck out of the back of the station. This was a successful station, and was a year-round station even when the branches of the U&D became a summer-only operation. This station even survived after the branches were abandoned in 1939, and scrapped in 1940. The station was then purchased by the town of Hunter for town offices and a snowplow garage. However, it was razed by fire on a winter day in the early 1970s.

[edit] Catskill and Tannersville

There was another Tannersville station a few hundred feet away from the U&D's Tannersville Station that was owned by the Catskill and Tannersville Railway. This station, MP 5.2, was much simpler, being just a small, spartan building with a short platform on the side. Yet as spartan as it was, this was the headquarters of the Catskill and Tannersville, and was one of the busiest stations on the line. This station remained until the end of the railroad in 1918, and it was scrapped in 1919, along with the entire Catskill Mountain Railway system.