The remains of the New Haven in and around Boston

These are just some observations that I made when I take the T or go driving of remains of the New Haven in and around Boston, see what you can add. Pictures from Live Search

1.The old bridge that spans the track that paralles the haul road, now used by Red Line to go to and from the Cabot Yard/shop.- http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&F ... &encType=1

2.The abandoned New Haven box cars in South Bay.-http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&F ... &encType=1

3.Inclines at South Bay, use to service the meat markets.-http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&F ... &encType=1.

On the other side of Mass. ave, another incline that served Boston Edison and a few other industries.-http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&F ... &encType=1

4.Old retaining wall just north of Savin Hill Station, anybody know when it was built?-http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&F ... &encType=1

5.Dorchester industrial area, just south of Savin Hill Station. The flyover was built somewhere in the 20's when the Boston Elevated bought the Shawmut Branch. There was a small yard that extended down to Freeport street.-http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&F ... &encType=1

6.The former Harrison Square Station was located here.If you look closley at the top right corner where the woods are, you can see some kind of concrete structure. The strip of land below is pretty flat and narrow suggesting an area for a platform.-http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&F ... &encType=1

7.The billboard on the left is sitting on top of a foundation for a staion, can be seen pretty good from an outbound Braintree train.-http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&F ... &encType=1

8. The site of the Neponset River drawbridge, destroyed by fire in 1960. The granite rectangle that juts out into the water below the bridge is where the bridge met land.-http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&F ... &encType=1

Small trestle that ran along the river-http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&F ... &encType=1

9. Just north of Quincy Center Station, the fourth bridge, farthest on the right, has no tracks on it. I wonder when it did have tracks, where they went. I think this area was ounce four-tracked

10.Readville:
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the link for #9-http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&F ... &encType=1

Excellent map postings and descriptions!!! Thanks!!

Link no 7, the billboard on the station foundation, was Popes Hill station I believe. Before the commuter rail tracks were built, foundations could be seen on both sides of the Red Line here.

At Harrison Square station, you can see the remains of a pedestrian underpass on the east side of the South Shore alignment. It shows as a rectangular impression in the picture (just across the tracks from the "point" of the station). This site has been on my list of places to explore for years but I still haven't made it.

Neat links. Thanks.

Tom Coughlin
Stow, MA

I coudda sworn if one looked at those box cars hard enough, one was a B&M, but I could be wrong.

See this thread:
http://railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=126&t=58107

If a few industries were to utilize the land south of Savin Hill station for industry and wanted to ship by rail, could modern freight cars and locomotives handle the clearence of the Red Line overpass that was built in the mid 1920s?