The site also included a watchman's shanty along Main Avenue and a Railway Express Agency building to the west of the station depot.

The new A&GW opened complete passenger service in 1864, after being connected to the rest of the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad.

[5] During this time, a new Type IV station depot was opened in Warren,[6] twenty years after the inaugural service.

Warren suffered from factors of problematic locations for the commercial core, schools, churches, industries, along with various classes of people.

As a result, the Railway Express Agency building next to the depot was demolished for construction of a new right-of-way on the parking side of South Street.

The railroad did not put up proper signage for the change, deciding it was easier to scratch the notice of the station depot closing in the wood of the door.

[9] During the later years of the Erie Railroad, Warren station had been served by twelve trains daily, including the Lake Cities which ran between Dearborn Station in Chicago and Hoboken Terminal in Hoboken, New Jersey, and local commuter runs from Youngstown to Cleveland Union Terminal on the Mahoning first-subdivision.

[8] In the late 1960s, the Erie Lackawanna was cutting several long distance trains from its schedule, including the Phoebe Snow in November 1966.

[10] By June 1969, the Erie Lackawanna had applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission to discontinue service of the Lake Cities,[4] citing that is not worth the money being expedited combined with the railroad's financial status.

[12] After the discontinuing of the Lake Cities, the Erie Lackawanna maintained one passenger service west of the New York Division, and that was the commuter rail line from Youngstown to Cleveland.

On a snow-covered January 14, 1977, numerous passengers, including railfans, historians and people interested in seeing or riding the train.

People crammed themselves into the three cars attached with Engine 4014, playing games, talking and having refreshments as Train 28 left the Union Terminal at 5:24.

After that, the train deadheaded into Brier Hill Yard for the passenger cars to be detached, while the locomotive, 4014, was converted for use to freight service.