While rummaging through my back closet I found some paperwork that was related to my Grandfathers business started around 1945. I knew the paperwork was there but haven't looked at it in YEARS! So this time I looked and I stumbled across a particular photo as it had 2 railroad cranes picking up a large transformer. I was not very knowledgeable about RR's especially in this particular area and I couldn't place the location. So I kept thumbing through the rest of it. I then came back to it and studied the picture more. At first I thought the transformer was being unloaded at the family business on Niagara St. But then I noticed the RR track. The only tracks that I remember were straight down the middle of Niagara St [Trolley tracks?]. My original posting [its been edited] I thought it was the black rock freight house cuz I thought it was a logical place to transfer the transformer. The Black Rock freight house is only 1 mile from the business.
This photo is actually on Ganson St with ADM in the background. What a screw up I made.
The guy in the suit walking across the timber is my Grandfather...A. T. Volland of Volland Electric. Which was originally on Nagara St near Bird Ave. {The company is still in service in Cheektowaga right in the middle of the southern section of the Gardenville yard.] I've posted many times about being located in the Gardenville yard [and exploring it], probably page 500....
Anyways....
BTW....the Black Rock freight house is being converted to apartments. I pray they don't screw it up. I suppose its better to convert than to raze.
https://www.buffalorising.com/2018/09/c ... ght-house/
This photo is actually on Ganson St with ADM in the background. What a screw up I made.
The guy in the suit walking across the timber is my Grandfather...A. T. Volland of Volland Electric. Which was originally on Nagara St near Bird Ave. {The company is still in service in Cheektowaga right in the middle of the southern section of the Gardenville yard.] I've posted many times about being located in the Gardenville yard [and exploring it], probably page 500....
Anyways....
BTW....the Black Rock freight house is being converted to apartments. I pray they don't screw it up. I suppose its better to convert than to raze.
https://www.buffalorising.com/2018/09/c ... ght-house/
Last edited by SST on Fri Dec 20, 2019 9:50 pm, edited 2 times in total.