Hello to all. My names is Jim and I am a new Trainboard member living in Dorchester, Mass. I grew up in the Lower Roxbury/Jamaica Plain section of the city of Boston on Columbus Avenue. We were number 1414. Our apartment was directly across the street from the 4 track mainline that ran on a massive granite viaduct along Columbus Avenue. There was the remains of an old station between Heath St. and New Heath St. The stairs at both ends were still intact and in the center were the remains of 2 larger sets of stairs that led down to Columbus Avenue on one side and Lamartine Street on the other. All that remained of these stairs were the risers, the actual stairs were gone long before me. There was also a tunnel next to these stairs that connected one side to the other. Does anyone else recall this station? Research that I have done tells the history of a station that began with the Boston and Providence Railroad and then the Old Colony Railroad and finally the New Haven Railroad. It was the New Haven that operated there when I lived there. I am attempting to model this station in z scale. Thanks. Jim in Boston
PM "nhguy" on Railroad Line Forums: http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=44802 He models the CT part of NH having grown up there but has a wealth of info on all of NH &/or knows where to find it
Thank you, Andy. I will contact him. My research indicates that the station may've been closed for almost a century when I left the neighborhood. Another station on the line, Jamaica Plain, allegedly stopped serving passengers after the Civil War. The only evidence of its existence as an active station was on an old ward map from the late 1800's. I love a good mystery. Thanks for your time. Jim in Boston
