Crossroads
At one time, Worcester, Massachusetts was the crossroads of The New York, New Haven and Hartford, Boston & Albany, and Boston & Maine railroads'. Worcester's Union station fell into disrepair and eventual abandonment. Amtrak served Worcester well with a crude cookie cutter lunchbox station for years. From the 1970's until it's restoration in 1997, Union station was a seedy place, with vagrants and vandals taking over the former grand station. The New Haven Railroad advertisements for the "Shoreliner" painted on the side of the bridge were there for years, this is what it looked like on the night of June 10, 1989.
Crossroads
At one time, Worcester, Massachusetts was the crossroads of The New York, New Haven and Hartford, Boston & Albany, and Boston & Maine railroads'. Worcester's Union station fell into disrepair and eventual abandonment. Amtrak served Worcester well with a crude cookie cutter lunchbox station for years. From the 1970's until it's restoration in 1997, Union station was a seedy place, with vagrants and vandals taking over the former grand station. The New Haven Railroad advertisements for the "Shoreliner" painted on the side of the bridge were there for years, this is what it looked like on the night of June 10, 1989.