Rochester's new station boasts many improvements over the former establishment it replaced, which was built by Amtrak in 1978 as the first of its kind consisting of a standardized design for the relatively new passenger rail carrier to serve cities where the glorious old terminals of yesteryear had been victims of neglect by their former railroads for years. Click here to see the station this one replaced. The new station is reminscient of a previous 1914 station the city had built by the New York Central. It features an underground tunnel that reaches a center island platform that serves two tracks.
