From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
D.L. & W. Station, Nichols, N.Y. 398.
A view of 3 sets of railroad tracks, a passenger station and outbuildings, and a siding at left. A passenger bud car and freight car are visible in the distance. This image is part of a series made by one of the three Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company photographers assigned to New England or upstate New York. The glass plates would be sent back to Belfast, Maine, and processed into postcards at the printing plant on High Street. The town of Nichols, in south central New York state along the Susquehanna River, was linked to the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad shortly after 1881, connecting the town to the cities of Scranton, PA, and Buffalo. The substantial brick and cement passenger station, with its large, elaborate eave brackets, reflects the town's stature as a regional center of retail business.
