(rshsdepot) Sullivan Square Terminal Station, Charlestown, Mass., City hall Station, Dudley Square Station

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

Here is  one of South Station with the Atlantic Avenue El, a different view:
http://pdxhistory.com.tripod.com/traindepots/boston.jpg
A different take: http://www.wmscnet.com/bostonterm1.jpg

New York & New England RR station in Boston. (Did I send this already?) Have I missed any terminals in Boston?:
http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGS/medium/tm_77229.jpg
< 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. >

Sullivan Square Terminal Station, Charlestown:
http://pdxhistory.com.tripod.com/traindepots/charlestownmass.jpg
This looks like an interesting station.
Sullivan Square station was the largest transit facility in North America when it opened in 1901.. A "multi-modal" facility. . Streetcar barn and yard below a yard and shop facility for Main Line trains on the structure above. We see in this postcard the Boston Elevated Railway Main Line cars on the left. There was a center track, flanked by ten stub-end tracks, 5 to each side. In 1912 with an extension to Malden, it became a through station, the stub tracks were changed to a loop for the "surface-cars".  Fires in 1960s led to the final closing in 1975. I was there once, it was a shell of a structure. This was the original Orange line.
You can read the full history here. None of the images seem to be there anymore, though.: http://members.aol.com/netransit/private/chel/celsulli.html 

The offices of the BER were in Sullivan Square Terminal. Here we see the other side of the terminal:
http://www.celebrateboston.com/images/gallery/mbtasullivansquarestation.jpg; 
Nice shed! (1900): http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~rauch/charlestown/postcards/sullivan_sq_station_inside_1900.jpg
1908: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~rauch/charlestown/postcards/sullivan_square_1908.jpg
1950: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~rauch/charlestown/postcards/1950_sullivan_square.jpg  Note the old car, what make is it?
1975: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~rauch/charlestown/postcards/el_1975_south_of_sullvan_sq_4.jpg
1935 Sullivan Square: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~rauch/charlestown/postcards/streetcar_1935.jpg
1970s: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~rauch/charlestown/postcards/sullivan_sq_1970s.jpg
Eastern Massachusetts Street railway "Laconia" semi-convertible #4322 at Sullivan Square, Feb. 1936:
http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~rauch/charlestown/postcards/streetcar_1936.jpg

Here is a truly bizarre old postcard from Sullivan Square, Berwick, Maine called "Sullivan Square in the Future, it is far ahead of its time, no?:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/me/york/postcards/berfut.jpg

Here is short histories and postcard views of  Dudley Street Terminal Station, Milk and City Hall stations as well,:
http://www.celebrateboston.com/gallery/mbtaorangeline.htm
Very nice pictures. 

This all looks so nice (but where is all the horse poop?)
Here is Charlestown City hall and City hall El station: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~rauch/charlestown/postcards/city_square_1908.jpg
Here is 1906, the Charlestown Bridge and City hall and the El:
http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~rauch/charlestown/postcards/bridge_city_hall_1906.jpg
City Hall Station 1952: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~rauch/charlestown/postcards/city_square_1952.jpg
Northeast Expressway is being constructed in foreground.
1975 demolition: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~rauch/charlestown/postcards/el_demolition_1975_city_square.jpg
[ a cool (and sad) one at Thompson Square Station 1975: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~rauch/charlestown/postcards/el_demolition_1975_thompson_sq_2.jpg ]

The first leg of the Malden extension ended at Everett. A temporary station went up 1918, opened 1919, and this not so grand structure ended up being the northern terminal of the Main Line. The Mystic River draw bridge was built to get to Malden. 




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