A bit haunting in this view from the rear platform of a RRE excursion is the depot at Blackstone, MA with its big train order boards and its late 1800s architecture. We are looking in a more or less easterly direction with the P&W trackage in the distance to the right of the station and the Midland to the left. The station was still functioning at this time as the southern terminus of what is now the MBTA Franklin Line which now ends north of here. The Providence-Worcester line, then owned by the New Haven, crossed here. Our train is headed for Putnam, CT on trackage that was abandoned by PC four years later.The station is now gone and is parking for the rail trail

Photographed by Ron DeFilippo, 1966.
Added to the photo archive by Ron DeFilippo, December 4, 2019.
Railroad: New Haven.

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