{"product_id":"old-albany-volume-v-union-station","title":"Old Albany Volume V: Union Station","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormally titled A Pictorial History of Union Station From the Morris Gerber Collection, this targeted regional retrospective serves as the definitive fifth installment (Volume V) in the celebrated Old Albany book series. The text acts as a comprehensive historical and architectural archive, tracing the timeline of Albany, New York's historic Union Station from its initial 1898 groundbreaking and structural engineering phases down through its mid-century evolution as a bustling, high-density rail transportation hub. Moving systematically through 250 rare black-and-white photographs extracted directly from the author's extensive private estate collection, the narrative documents not only the physical train infrastructure built for the New York Central Railroad but also the community ecosystem of hotels, restaurants, and independent shops that grew up around the travelers. It functions as an indispensable reference tool for rail historians and urban planners, offering an unvarnished look at the industrial expansion and changing social landscape of upstate New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Morris Gerber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49698279358714,"sku":"NEE3\/22\/07122026","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0635\/3387\/5450\/files\/IMG_4741_2590ddea-4e1a-4ac0-b5a1-6d981e36bd08.jpg?v=1784069981","url":"https:\/\/flippedpages.com\/products\/old-albany-volume-v-union-station","provider":"Flipped Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}