. WELCOME TO
CANAL STREET STATION RAILROAD VILLAGE
Canal Street Station is a reconstructed 1920’s to 1940’s American railroad village representing the “Great American Dream”. Our village relives a common sight during the turn of the century when horse drawn wagons and push carts were still used to distribute produce and farm goods to market. Early trucks and automobiles were now an everyday sight traveling on U.S. Route 20 “The Great Western Turnpike”. The mom and pop business was evolving from fruit stands to manufactured diners that were popping up in every small town. A train station ticket could take you to any town or city in America and also deliver supplies and retail goods back to local villages.
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Commercial canal waterways hauled everything from grain to steel all in helping to build our American industrialism. Canal Street Station, today continues to be developed to capture the new way of life in the early 20th century. Developed by Joseph J. Merli and friends in 1990, Canal Street Village, today, has its own General Store from 1900, a 1950’s New York Central locomotive, a 1940 Silk City Diner along with railroad buildings, rolling stock and early delivery vehicles. |
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Visit the Joseph J. Merli Manufacturing Company factory and see early wagons and Victorian push carts being built and assembled for today’s retail marketing businesses. Take a walk along our canal way and rediscover a way of life and see early artifacts that were the tools and machines that helped to build our great American heritage.
Thank you, Joe Merli, curator/collections |
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