Otis Elevating

 
Otis Elevating
photo by Dick Makse

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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