On a hot summer's day, Finger Lakes Railway road freight GS-2 (Geneva-Solvay) passes by the "Martisco" station on the old New York Central "Auburn Road."When the Auburn Road was originally built by the Auburn & Syracuse in 1850, they bypassed the village center of Marcellus, but they did provide a station, albeit some some two miles north. Originally a wooden structure, the present two-story Italianate brick structure was erected in 1870. In 1897, the Marcellus Electric Railroad was chartered to provide a direct rail line between the village of Marcellus and the Rochester & Syracuse station, and in 1905, the Marcellus & Otisco Lake Railway was formed to take over operation of the Marcellus Electric Railroad short line. By that point, the Auburn Road was under New York Central control, and the New York Central had it's own station directly in Marcellus, so to avoid confusion, this location was renamed to "Martisco", a contraction of Marcellus and Otisco.
