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(rshsdepot) Boston & Providence rerun with a new addition & other odds and ends (and Haverill, too)

" The station of the Boston and Providence Railroad, although surpassed in size by a few structures of the kind, is inferior to none, in this country at least, in artistic beauty and in adaptability to the uses for which it was designed. It consists of two distinct but connected parts. The train-house has a length of five hundred and eighty-eight feet and an extreme width of one hundred and thirty feet. The great iron trusses cover five tracks and three platforms. The head-house is two hundred and twelve feet long, and one hundred and fifty feet wide at the widest point, the lot on which it stands being very irregular in shape. In the centre of the head-house is a great marble hall, one hundred and eighty feet long, forty-four broad, and eighty high. It is imposing in its general effect and magnificent in its architectural beauty and its ornamentation. Surrounding this hall are the waiting and other rooms for the accommodation of passengers, a periodical stand, baggage and package rooms, and an excellent restaurant. A barber-shop is attached to the news-room. A fine gallery surrounds the hall above mentioned, and from this access is had to the offices of the company and other apartments. The cost of this station was nearly one million dollars. The Providence Railroad has numerous branches, and its main line forms part of the popular Shore (all rail) and Stonington (rail and steamboat) lines to New York. It was united with the Old Colony in 1888, and is now operated as the Providence division of the Old Colony system." 

The Old Providence Depot in Boston, the first of the Providence RR (B&P), c. 1870:
http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/medium/tm_76604.jpg  This one I hadn't found the first time.

The 2nd Boston & Providence RR station in Boston: http://www.kellscraft.com/bostonillustrated/bostonillust043.jpg
Lincoln statue at left on photo, c. 1880:
http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/medium/tm_76621.jpg
From Park Square, w/ West End Street Ry. #558 (blt. 1893):
http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGS/medium/tm_77213.jpg

Here is the Wanckel Estate 1858 with a B&P train steaming by: http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGS/medium/tm_76802.jpg

B&P: http://www.clintonhollins.com/img/r0770.jpg
http://www.clintonhollins.com/img/r0750.jpg
http://us.st3.yimg.com/store5.yimg.com/I/scripophily_1795_145292479

Georgetown, Rowley & Ipswich Street Railway #22 in Haverill (Haverhill?), Mass., c. 1910:
http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGS/medium/tm_77214.jpg  Bridge Street and Merrimack Street, White's Corner, the end of the line.
Here is a Massachusetts Northeastern Street Ry.. Co. open car at the Hampton Beach Casino, N.H. bound for Haverhill, Mass.: http://www.trolleystop.com/images/hamptonbchcasino-1.jpg
Massachusetts Northeastern Street Ry. Hamden Beach Casino station:
http://www.trolleystop.com/images/hamptonbeach.jpg
Here's an Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Birney car in Haverhill in 1936 :
http://www.trolleymuseum.org/Catalog/featured/TEMWebPage/EMSRBirney-2Haverhill.JPG
http://www.trolleymuseum.org/Catalog/featured/TEMWebPage/EMSR5225Haverhill.JPG
And same year and operation and city with a semi-convertible:
http://www.trolleymuseum.org/Catalog/featured/TEMWebPage/EMSR4100Haverhill.JPG

Eastern Massachusetts Street Ry. car 4300 on the BER Sullivan Square Terminal to Stoneham Route on the Middlesex falls private ROW; this route jointly owned:
http://www.trolleymuseum.org/Catalog/featured/TEMWebPage/EMSR4388Sheepfold.JPG  This service ended 1946.
The BER at Sullivan Square c. 1937: http://www.trolleymuseum.org/Catalog/featured/TEMWebPage/BERYSullivanSq.JPG

Marine Railway, Boston Navy yard, Easy Boston (Charlestown) [this is a trick]:
1915: http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGS/medium/tm_77145.jpg
1919: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h54000/h54691.jpg
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h45000/h45289.jpg

Remember Highlands? Here is a Newton & Boston Street Railway car "Newtonville" on the Newton Highlands & Upper Falls route; in Newton Upper Falls near "Echo Bridge".:
http://www.trolleystop.com/images/newtonbostoncar.jpg   Became part of the Middlesex & Boston Street Ry.

Proposed Ferry Terminal, Boston: http://www.krausfitch.com/images/pics/drawing2.jpg
1908 looking down lower State Street towards Ferry Terminal:
http://www.bpl.org/store/IMGs/medium/tm_76618.jpg
 Boston, Nahant and Pines Steam Ship. Co.  S.S. Patchogue (blt. 1912 at City Island, bought by U.S. Navy 1917, acted as ferry at New London until 1922:
http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/1217122701.jpg

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railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org

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End of RSHSDepot Digest V1 #949
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The Railroad Station Historical Society maintains a database of existing
railroad structures at: http://www.rrshs.org