Depot with signal tower

I have come across this picture (late 1960’s?) which is referenced as a New Haven depot. The unique feature is a signal tower that is integral to the depot. I’ve tried finding the location of the structure. Does anyone know where it is or was, if it is no longer standing? I can’t say I’ve seen similar type structure on the NH or other railroads for that matter. A freestanding tower is shown in the background beyond the overpass.

I think I’ve answered my own questions. The attached photo here has been cropped, but I went back to the original picture and saw a small New Haven station sign on the opposite side of the tracks with the name Kingston (Rhode Island). It appears this structure could have been the freight depot. How long the signal tower on top was used is unknown.

With the little research I’ve done, it appears the depot didn’t survive past 1970. The active station a few hundred yards away, has been immaculately restored.

Link on station

http://www.greatamericanstations.com/St ... ation_view

The building in the photo is defnately Kingston, RI. The tower portion had not been in use for a long, long time. The tower that was in use was not exactly new and it was a little bit east of this structure.
Noel Weaver

A tower (probably the one in the background of your image) still stands a few feet back of the tracks north of the bridge.
aerial view

From this historical view it appears the depot was still around in 1963 but gone by 1970.

Thanks all. Yes, it looks like the tower was relocated roughly 230 feet away from the tracks by the Friends of Kingston Station. To bad the depot was not saved, but the group and the State had enough to take care of with the station and the signal tower. Link to picture of Tower 133.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/p3subhunter/5830895103/

Unfortunately that old tower building was long gone by the time the Friends of Kingston Station stepped in to restore the passenger station and SS 133.

This is another example of the uniqueness of RI and the rr's that ran through it. This photo makes me wonder what came first the tower or the freight house? it almost seems to be grafted in! Would make a neat model.

Image of the tower from Historic American Engineering Survey. Unknown date but around 1968.



http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/hh ... s.145687p/


Kingston station itself was looking pretty dilapidated in those days.

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ri0328 ... /resource/
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ri0328 ... /resource/

Thanks EDG. The current tower location is to the left of the second tree from the curved road (center of picture).