Re: (rshsdepot) Major RR Terminals in the US before 1900

["JIMBEAR" <ribear_@_cox.net>]

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> Wait a minnit...
>
> The Boston & Providence operated between those two communities until ca. 1905 when the new South Station opened in Bahston 
> and when the NYNH&H took over those routes.
>
> The route from Valley Falls to Red Bridge also existed then, but I don't know when it was built. That line and the mainline 
> cutoff from East Junction met at Red Bridge, then continued on to SS-151 where the line diverged to East Side Tunnel and 
> also continued southerly to Bristol, R.I.
>
> Albest,
>
> Leo

Sorry, but you're not correct. The Old Colony acquired control of the Boston & Providence
by means of a 99 year lease in 1888. The New Haven acquired control of both the OC and
the B&P via a lease in 1893. So the new Union Station in Providence was under full control
of the New Haven at the time it opened. Not only that, but South Union Station (the original
name) in Boston actually opened on January 1, 1899.

FYI, the Providence & Worcester's line from Valley Falls didn't go the Red Bridge, it ran
about 1 mile further south to the Wilkes-Barre pier. It was built in the late 1840-early 1850s.
The pier is now owned by Capital Properties Inc., the real estate holding company spun off
from the Providence & Worcester Railroad Company in the early 1980s.

Jim. 

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