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There has been massive flooding around Burton so I took a walk to photograph the Almshouses in the nearby village of Rolleston On Dove, I also got a distant shot of a Great Spotted Woodpecker and a very nice weather vane featuring an owl and a mouse.
One Direction | August 7th, 2014
Gillette Stadium
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One Direction | August 7th, 2014
Gillette Stadium
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One Direction | August 9th, 2014
Gillette Stadium
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One Direction | August 8th, 2014
Gillette Stadium
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One Direction | August 8th, 2014
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One Direction | August 8th, 2014
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After getting my shots of the signals up near Lowell there was nothing at all happening on Pan Am so I wasn't sure which direction to head. Then I heard District 3 crackle to life and give a Form D to a Q427 to head from MP 25 down the Worcester Main to Burncoat Street.
With daylight trains relatively uncommon and having not shot anything on the line since the detouring 23K last year I figured that was a good option. So I headed off toward Clinton and got there just as they were slowly rolling through town at 10 mph. So having missed the shot passing by the station and under the Fitchburg Secondary, I wasn't sure what was worthwhile. I followed the line south and stopped at a place I've wondered about for a while but never photographed.
Here they are railroad westbound behind passing by the modified but surviving former Boston and Maine Sterling Junction freight house and the milepost denoting 12 miles to Worcester. These six flat cars were on the head pin separated from the three gevos by a Guilford boxcar. They are loaded with damaged tank cars heading to their home shop for repair after languishing from a derailment earlier in 2020 back up on District 1 in Maine.
Sterling Junction is named as such because for 87 years there was indeed a junction here. The modern day Worcester mainline opened in 1848 between its namesake city and Ayer as the Worcester and Nashua railroad eventually coming into the B&M fold in 1886. Meanwhile in 1850 the Fitchburg and Worcester railroad opened between its namesake points using it's own rails for the northern 18 miles and trackage rights from this point south. After 1866 this route became less important after the Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg connected to the F&W at Pratts Junction five miles north of here creating a through route to Framingham. Two years later those roads combined and a decade later they became part of the growing Old Colony Railroad by lease and then outright sale. The Old Colony of course became part of the New Haven and that big system had little use for the connection here, routing Fitchburg traffic over it's own lines through Framingham, Walpole and Mansfield. Nonetheless the line survived intact until 1937 when two miles from her to Sterling were taken up. Amazingly the 3 miles from Sterling to Pratts Junction (near the famed swamp shot) hung on as a branch until 1966.
Now you know the rest of the story about this otherwise nondescript spot hiding beneath the Route 12 overpass and little remarked by anyone.
Sterling, Massachusetts
Friday January 29, 2021