Buffalo Central Terminal

Hope everyone enjoyed this year’s Oktoberfest! Here are some photos from the event:

If you’re visiting us today after the airing of last night’s episode of Ghost Hunters featuring the Buffalo Central Terminal, welcome! The Terminal was designed by architects Alfred T. Fellheimer & Steward Wagner, built by the New York Central Railroad, and opened to the public in 1929. The station was in use for 50 years until it’s closing to rail traffic in 1979. After several private owners and a period of abandonment, the Central Terminal Restoration Corporation was formed in 1997 and took ownership of the building, with the goal of restoring it and reopening it to the public.

Today, the main concourse of the Terminal is used for a variety of public and private events, and we hope to offer the opportunity for additional ghost hunting events in the future.

To help us keep the building open to the public, you can send a tax-deductable donation via PayPal:

or by mail to:
Central Terminal Restoration Corporation
PO Box 468
Buffalo, NY 14212

For all you local ghosthunters: come by the terminal on Saturday from 6pm to 11pm, see if you feel spooked, and enjoy some great German music, beer and food in the process!

Admission is $10 at the door and includes a free drink. Music is by GAM Blaskapelle.

Set your DVRs, Ghosthunters featuring Buffalo Central Terminal will air on SciFi network, next Wednesday September 24th at 9pm and again at 11pm. Don’t miss it!

ATTENTION: Unfortunately Mobility Across the Ages has been POSTPONED to October 11th due to work going on inside the building. Work on the restaurant space has been in the works for 3 months, and delayed by New York State until now. We didn’t feel it was fair to hold the event on the 20th when the participants couldn’t access the building to set up and prepare properly. Anyone who has already purchased tickets through Brown Paper Tickets – HOLD ON TO THEM – they will be honored at the rescheduled date. You can still buy tickets by clicking here. Don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions.

As many may know Good Morning America came through WNY, and brought along their very own train. Volunteer Adam Vester snapped this fantastic picture:

Amtrak pulling the Good Morning America Train, September 2008

And last but certainly not least:
The Canisius College Video Institute documentary “Central Terminal: Saving a Buffalo Landmark” was recently awarded two Silver Communicator Awards of Distinction in the categories of “Student Production” and “Documentary.”

The Communicator Awards is the largest and most competitive awards program honoring the creative excellence for communications professionals in the US and around the world. These awards are judged and overseen by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, an organization of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media.

“Central Terminal,” produced by DMA majors Kirsten Jahn ‘07 and Scott Richardson ‘09, under the direction of Barbara Irwin, PhD, director of the Video Institute, traces the history of Buffalo’s “most beloved building,” including its architectural and social significance and the efforts of the Central Terminal Restoration Corporation to bring the building back to life.

Funded in part by the John R. Oishei Foundation, the Canisius College Video Institute provides students with the opportunity to put their classroom lessons to work on projects that will benefit the college and the community at large. Students produce documentaries and promotional videos for local and international not-for-profit and service agencies that otherwise would not have the resources to tell their stories in this way.