Halfway there and the year is just about halfway over. As long as I keep this pace up I should be okay. The trouble is I think my traveling will be limited for a few months. Well, we will see and trust in fate.
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| West entrance to the old Central Falls station. |
This one could have been called the former glory of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. From what I have read and seen in old photographs the Central Falls, Rhode Island train station was once a thing of beauty. Now it reminds me of a fairytale princess captured by an evil witch and cast under a terrible spell. The building sits atop Amtrak's Northeast Corridor between Boston and Providence and lies forgotten, battered and rusted. Its west entrance, sealed off behind a chain link fence, opens on a CVS Pharmacy parking lot. Its east entrance to crumbling pavement. The soul of a great building still exists under the decades of neglect, piles of graffiti and rusting steel, but I don't know what it will take to save it. The city of Central Falls is in a rough way, the state of Rhode Island isn't rolling in cash and I doubt Amtrak wants to take on such a project. Perhaps some rich benefactor with deep pockets and desire to try will come along and save it. Or maybe it will just collapse into the right of way. Who knows?
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| Beauty Suspended: MBTA train 815, running a few minutes late for its final destination of Providence, emerges into the afternoon sunlight after passing under the remains of the New Haven's Central Falls train station. |
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