Forks, New York, in the middle of Cheektowaga at the junction of Broadway and Union Roads, was the site of a major railroad station, and in the 1920s the present Town Hall was built there. Behind the Town Hall and Highway Garage, three giant concrete columns remain from one of the largest coal trestles ever built in the United States, which extended over half a mile. In the early 1880s, when most homes and industries were heated with coal and industries, mills, and steam engines also ran on it, the wood-and-concrete trestle was built to provide uninterrupted coal service by transferring coal from rail cars to horse-drawn wagons and later motor-driven trucks. Hopper cars were pushed by a switch engine up to the second story of the trestle, where the bottoms of the hoppers emptied coal into wagons below. The coal trestle survived into the 1920s, when a fire and its outdated construction brought about its demise. An oral tale long passed down about the fire tells of a love triangle involving the owner and two employees: the owner's wife fell in love with one employee, and together they plotted to kill her husband by removing pins holding beams above his office so that railroad cars fell through the floor and killed him instantly. According to the story, he had installed a new furnace that used gas, which was soon to replace coal, and fumes from a ruptured gas line filled the building and then exploded, destroying the trestle and the two lovers. Their bodies were never recovered, and stories of strange happenings at the site have circulated for years.