Rouses Point station
Amtrak intercity train station in Rouses Point, New York, United States
Rouses Point station is an Amtrak intercity train station in Rouses Point, New York, served by the single daily round trip of the Adirondack. The station building is a former Delaware and Hudson Railway constructed in 1889, with a one low-level side platform on the east side of the track. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005 as Rouses Point Railroad Station.
History
The Northern Railroad (later the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad) opened between Ogdensburg and Rouses Point in 1850, with a wharf on Lake Champlain at Rouses Point. In 1851, the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad was extended south from Canada to a wharf just to the north of the Northern's wharf. That year, the Vermont and Canada Railroad (V&C) began operating a railcar barge from the Northern wharf to Alburgh, Vermont, where its line continued to Burlington. It soon gained control of the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain. Not until 1868 did the line complete its bridge across the lake to Rouses Point.
After several reorganizations, the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain and the V&C became part of the Central Vermont Railway (CV) in 1873.
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