Union Station
Opened in 1908
Location: Erie Blvd. and Liberty St.
Railroads: New York Central, Delaware & Hudson
Demolished, new Amtrak station built in 1979 at same location.
Departures-Westbound
No. Name 1942 Dest. 1942 Time 1956 Time 1971 Time 29 Niagara Buffalo 1:12 am (skip) 61 Seneca Utica 5:06 am 43 South Shore Express Chicago 6:02 am 5:51 am 335 Syracuse 7:00 am 9 Mail Buffalo 9:32 95 10:17 am 107 Syracuse Local Syracuse 11:12 7 9:48 am 51 Empire State Express Cleveland 12:07 pm 11:16 71 11:30 am 55 Central Express Syracuse 12:16 pm 5 Mohawk Chicago 1:27 pm 39 North Shore Limited Det.-Chicago 4:20 pm 3:23 73 3:30 pm 441 Syracuse 4:30 pm 41 Knickerbocker St. Louis 6:08 pm 5:49 pm 15 Ohio State Limited Cincinnati (skip) 7:13 pm 67 Commodore Vanderbilt Chicago (skip) (skip) 75 7:30 pm 27 New England States Chicago 7:58 pm 7:07 61 9:45 pm 367 Upstate Special Utica 8:08 167 8:14 pm 1 Pacemaker Chicago (skip) 6:22 pm 33 New Eng. Wolverine Det.-Chicago 9:24 pm 8:20 pm 17 Wolverine Det.-Chicago 9:36 pm 8:43 pm 19 Lake Shore Limited Chicago 10:03 pm 9:49 pm 47 Detroiter Detroit (skip) 10:28 pm 455 Syracuse 10:45 155 9:45 pm 11 Southwestern Limited St. Louis (skip) 57 10:59 pm 57 Cleveland Limited Chicago (skip) 21 Lake Erie Cleveland 11:50 pmDepartures-Eastbound
No. Name 1942 Dest. 1942 Time 1956 Time 1971 Time 36 Genesee New York 2:08 pm 28 New England States Boston (skip) (skip) 62 6:45 am 8 Wolverine New York (skip) 5:24 am 10 Water Level Limited New York 7:53 138 7:03 am 400 Albany 8:37 am 24 Knickerbocker New York 8:48 am 8:49 am 142 Cayuga New York 9:41 am 22 Lake Shore Limited New York 10:56 am 9:10 am 58 Niagara Albany 1:43 pm 40 North Shore Limited New York (skip) 1:57 pm 38 Missourian New York 2:47 pm 12:57 70 10:45 am 90 Forest City New York 4:10 pm 3:15 72 2:45 pm 34 Seneca New York 5:15 pm 50 Empire State Express New York 6:15 pm 6:00 74 6:45 pm 56 DeWitt Clinton New York 8:01 96 4:33 pm 424 Albany 10:05 pm 42 Boston Express Boston 11:15 pm 52 Easterner Albany 11:57 pm 11:00 pmPassenger service retained by Amtrak in 1971.
In the early 1930's, Delaware & Hudson discontinued its passenger service in Schenectady. Although in 1979, Amtrak adopted the route through Schenectady for its service between New York and Montreal.