This is the amazing
headhouse of Worcester (Mass.) Union Station (44 miles west from South
Station, Boston). The station is served at a single high-level platform
by a dozen Boston commuter trains in each direction and the Boston
Section of the Lake Shore Limited in each direction. CSX freight tracks
are on one side of the headhouse and Providence & Worcester
RR tracks are on the other. All the tracks are up one level to allow
local streets to have underpasses. How many stations at outer ends of a
commuter lines have headhouses like this?
And this picture is from the same angle as the first one above from just before the reconstruction in 1996. The source is Worcester Union Station: The Monument and the Memories by Idamay Michaud Aesenault, Ambassador Books, Worcester, MA, 1999.
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