From Sunday’s Buffalo News:
It troubles Russell Pawlak that he “has no memory of the last train leaving Buffalo Central Terminal.”
“It seems train travel from Central Terminal died not with a bang but with a whimper,” he said.
The terminal is a fixture of his life. And as president of the not-for-profit Central Terminal Restoration Corp., he is determined to revive the building, “to correct a historic wrong done to this magnificent structure.”
Pawlak was raised in the shadow of Central Terminal, on Milburn Street off Broadway.
His grandfather worked as a conductor on the New York Central Railroad.
“Accompanying my grandparents on countless journeys nurtured an appreciation for train travel and exposed me to the Central Terminal at an early age,” he recalled.
