wicker furniture. There were rugs on the floor and a writing desk. On the other side of the stairs was a smoking room. The middle of the east side of the waiting room had the entrance to the train concourse. Also next to the waiting room was a newsstand, telegraph and parcel booths, and restaurant. On a mezzanine floor were the rooms for railroad employees, a waiting room for immigrants, and a room for railroad business mail. On the third floor were various offices, including those for the superintendent and the train dispatcher. The construction of the Buffalo Skyway led to the demolition of the line north of the terminal where the skyway was placed. In 1960, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad merged with the Erie Railroad. The new resulting railroad known as the Erie Lackawanna Railroad or the "EL". Passenger service Lackawanna Terminal hosted trains of its owner Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, as well as The Nickel Plate named night trains to Buffalo afforded the continuation of trips to the DLW's Hoboken Terminal via DLW trains. Briefly, from the Nickel Plate's 1964 merger into the Norfolk & Western until the trains' termination in 1965, these trains were carried under the Norfolk & Western name. Into the 1930s, the Wabash Railroad had Chicago to New York service in similar fashion: the Wabash operating trains from Chicago and Detroit to Buffalo (Wabash #6 eastbound, through Southwestern Ontario, connecting at Buffalo with the DLW's the Chicago and New York Express, and westbound the DLW's Chicago Limited connecting at Lackawanna Terminal with Wabash #1-11 through Southwestern Ontario to Lackawanna Terminal); then, DLW trains completing the trip from Buffalo to Hoboken. The B&O operated both day and nighttime trains on the BR&P line to Pittsburgh via East Salamanca and DuBois. 1955 was the final year for B&O service to Pittsburgh. Passenger service in 1964: Erie Lackawanna: New York Mail (eastbound only night train, Buffalo-Hoboken) Owl (westbound only night train, Hoboken-Buffalo) Phoebe Snow (Buffalo-Hoboken) Norfolk & Western: City of Chicago (westbound only night train, Buffalo-Chicago, picking up carriages from Phoebe Snow for continuous Hoboken-Chicago trip) / City of Cleveland (eastbound only night train, Chicago-Buffalo, connecting with the New York Mail for continuing to Hoboken) The EL abandoned the terminal soon after when, in 1968, it ended the overnight Owl service from Hoboken to Buffalo and New York Mail heading back. After years of abandonment,