There is a bridge in that picture and Google definitely confirms there is no bridge near North Creek and there is one right by what now is Riverside. The building was rebuilt after this picture according to Warren Co history sites so may have looked like this before. One of our town's old train buildings is the same Railroad Gothic/Romanesque style and I'm on the other side of the Mississippi. Both stations were possible jumpoff points to Brant Lake and such.

Count me in the Riverside camp.

[The bridge in the photo was there a hundred years ago. And now it's gone. Also, its pillars don't look anything like the ones in the photos of Riverside bridge. - Dave]

Definitely North Creek Station, Town of Johnsburg, Warren County, New York. But I had a whole lot of fun trying to trace photo to a totally different station at the other end of New York.

So that might be Shorpy Fun, which can inspire viewers and contributors. Sheer fun, whatever the results. Hope you have fun too, although has to be some work as well.

I concur with the comments that this a rebuilt incarnation of the station at Riverside, based on the topography in the background and the fact that the replacement Riparius Bridge is just behind this station to the NE as was its predecessor in the original photo (if we are sure that is the Riparius Bridge in the original).

[The Google Maps images (below) don't leave much doubt as to which station this is. - Dave]

One other possibility for calling them commuters: Some families would spend the summer in the Adirondacks to escape the heat. But, the men would spend the week working in the City, then commute out for the weekend.

This is what is now named the Riverside train station in the Adirondacks. The station was built by Thomas Durant in 1870 to serve the Adirondack Railroad. The station has also been called Folsom (or Fulsom) Landing and Riparius. The name on the coach is "F.W. Parker, Riverside Chester & Brant Lake".

Note the suspension bridge in the background. The bridge, called the Riparius Bridge was constructed in 1872 bridge and replaced around 1919. In that same year the D&H replaced the train station and that building still stands today.

I never knew that cars in America once had their steering wheels on the opposite side.

Based on the style of the buildings, this is possibly North Creek Station near Brant Lake.

This looks like Riverside Station, located in Riparius on the Chester-Johnsburg border. As part of the Adirondack Branch of the Delaware & Hudson (D&H) Railroad, this station served as the primary gateway for travelers to the Brant Lake and Schroon Lake region during that era.

and more like tourists. The canopy on the mostly hidden tour bus says, "F.W. Parker, Riverside Chester & Brant Lake". According to a different photo of a similar bus in the Library of Congress, this location is probably the Adirondack mountains.

"Commuters" seems like an odd choice of word - I place the onus on whoever created the original caption - since it conventionally refers to 9-to-5er's (who, if they were travelling by train, would be in a large[r] city.) Or was visiting summer resorts so commonplace then that perhaps the word approached literally correct ?

This is the station in North Creek, Town of Johnsburg, Warren County, New York. It still stands-- see the 2010 photo. It's well known as the place that Vice President Theodore Roosevelt emerged from the woods and boarded a fast train to Buffalo on September 14, 1901. President William McKinley had been shot eight days earlier, and it was in North Creek that Roosevelt learned that McKinley had just died. Roosevelt took the oath of office later on September 14 in Buffalo.

With so many females in their fancy bonnets, I wonder if this is really a commuter train or going off to some weekend spot of relaxation?

Also, the wagoneers (Charabancers?) know to back in, whereas the horseless carriage drivers seem to be getting themselves boxed in! Unless they are yielding to let the horses go first, which would be wise. Kind of like "charabanc", no?

Horse sense? Maybe so:
https://phrases.org.uk/meanings/horse-sense.html

I can almost hear Streisand and the cast of Hello, Dolly! singing their way down to NYC !

You gotta be a true early adopter to get a two-digit license plate number. Lousy getaway car, though. Every eyewitness would remember it as you drove away from your bank robbery.