Through most of its decades, and into the latter 1960s, the station served New York Central passenger trains over a New York–Buffalo–Windsor–Detroit–Jackson–Chicago route: the Empire State Express and the Wolverine.[1] It also served trains bound for a slightly more northerly route east: to London, Toronto and Montreal: the New York Central-Canadian Pacific pooled train, the Canadian (later renamed the Canadian-Niagara).[2]
The last train service to this station was Amtrak's Niagara Rainbow from October 1978 to January 31, 1979.[3] The building was burnt to the ground in 1996 due to arson.[citation needed]