(rshsdepot) North Station redux

["Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

To amend for forgetting that the convention and the Fleet Center was on top of North Station, and also that I didn't know there was an elevated railroad in Sioux City, South Dakota (OK, list the El cities in the US: Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago...I can't count Newark, Hoboken and Jersey City can I because of their streetcar Els?...and Sioux City...at least Milwaukee fits the large cities...sort of....)

First, a station in Boston I missed yesterday, that of the New York & New England Railroad. < The NY & NE Railroad Depot was located on Summer Street on the present site of South Station. The Depot was torn down in 1896 to make way for the South Station which unified all the southern railroad lines to Boston. >:
http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGS/medium/tm_77229.jpg

Anyway I did find a source for some sort of North Station pictures...for some reason these library image search engine results can't be detected by the normal web search engines....

North Station:
http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/medium/tm_76397.jpg 
http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/medium/tm_st10081.jpg 1929 (opened 1928)
http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/medium/tm_76107.jpg  1930 taken from Customs House Tower, does it still exist?
http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/medium/tm_76358.jpg  9/22/1929 this one taken from Haymarket Square Hospital.
http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/STMedium/tm_st10614.jpg
http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/STMedium/tm_st10613.jpg
http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/STMedium/tm_st10607.jpg
http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/STMedium/tm_st10606.jpg
From Custom House again: http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/medium/tm_st10007.jpg
From 1929 when it opened, the North Station Industrial Building is in the distance on right (The right building was this industrial building, it looks like an office building. The left/west side high rise- the Hotel Manger): http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/medium/tm_st10079.jpg 
(What was there between the old and new station, didn't it say 1910 for when the old one closed?)
Architectural rendering: http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/medium/tm_st10080.jpg
1930, see how industrial building was longer: http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/medium/tm_st10091.jpg
North Station Waiting Room: http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/STMedium/tm_st10608.jpg
1938 Atlas, plate 6: http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/medium/tm_st11097.jpg
supposedly you can see the El station in this plate: http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/medium/tm_st11108.jpg

A 1901 shot of the older Union (North) Station: http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/medium/tm_93882.jpg
1852 drawing of B&M Station at Haymarket Square: http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/medium/tm_76614.jpg
1870 photo of Boston & Lowell Railroad Station (Eastern RR Sta. in distance):
http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/medium/tm_76620.jpg
The 2nd Boston & Providence RR Station, 1880 at Park Square: http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/medium/tm_76620.jpg 
Here is the Boston Elevated railway Dudley Street Station, 1910: http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/medium/tm_76139.jpg
Scollay Square w/ subway station, 1908 (current site of Government Center): http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/medium/tm_93994.jpg  do any of this conical subway stations still exist?

A August 19, 1908 picture of Boston's "Busiest Corner" Washington St. looking north from Temple Place: http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/medium/tm_76609.jpg

They used to really build post office buildings, here we see Post Office Square in Boston c. 1885: http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/medium/tm_76605.jpg  and what is the "flat iron" building on the right?

Green line  train leaving North Station on its way to Lechmere:
http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~carterfd/3677,-3662-leave-NS.jpg





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