When
the Otis opened for business in 1892, the station at Otis Junction was
.27 miles east of this location and functioned as a transfer point rather
than a true junction. The T shaped platform at the first Otis Junction
only permitted the transfer of passengers from Catskill Mountain to
Otis trains. When the Otis was shortened and its trestles replaced with
fills, a true rail junction was formed at the T station, with Catskill
Mountain Railway trains running over a short portion of the Otis Elevating
to reach the new Junction station. Today, the 1892 station slumbers
in obscurity and anonymity in what is perhaps the best preserved turn-of-the-century
rail terminal in the U.S. Six buildings survive at the junction from
the glory days of the Otis!
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