Excuse me, when's the next train?

By adamg on Wed, 10/05/2016 - 11:23am

Train station in old Boston

The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this Boston train station. See it larger.

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Got it

By anon
Wed, 10/05/2016 - 11:35am

760 South St, Roslindale

Upstairs.

Nope

By anon
Wed, 10/05/2016 - 2:38pm

This doesn't look anything like the old Roslindale Village station.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/91981316@N06/18086154239

https://www.flickr.com/photos/91981316@N06/22307606509/

He Means This

By Stevil
Wed, 10/05/2016 - 3:05pm

I'm probably the only person out here that knows that address off the top of my head!

Not quite sure I get the joke

By anon
Wed, 10/05/2016 - 3:24pm

But three or four other people evidently found that to be clever, so I guess it served its purpose.

Did you click the link?

By Stevil
Wed, 10/05/2016 - 5:21pm

It's a model train club - well known especially in the Roslindale/JP/West Roxbury area.

I've been a member for almost 20 years - which is why I know the address.

Probably true

By anon
Wed, 10/05/2016 - 4:37pm

I googled it.

1925

By Nate
Wed, 10/05/2016 - 12:00pm

1925 based on the 50 years of Hathaway's Bread ad (founded in 1875).

Nothing cures a headache like

By Rob Not Verified
Wed, 10/05/2016 - 12:17pm

Nothing cures a headache like some good ol' Seltzer!

and doesn't it say "Bromo" seltzer?

By Imma Dork
Wed, 10/05/2016 - 1:53pm

Which I thought was for stomach ailments.

Anyway, I guess Lower Allston. Just because.

The Answer

By Boston City Archives
Wed, 10/05/2016 - 4:11pm

Thanks for playing, folks! This photo shows Fields Corner Station on February 26, 1926.

I'm stumped......

By Stephmcc
Wed, 10/05/2016 - 4:39pm

Thought it might be Green Street or Boylston in JP or even the older, pre-elevated Forest Hills Station but, although the buildings in the background certainly look like JP, Roslindale, Roxbury, I'm at a loss to find this in old photos.

Thinking it might be in Dorchester..

By Stephmcc
Wed, 10/05/2016 - 4:59pm

Somehow associated with the Old Colony Railroad. Trim on roof and even the adds are identical to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Old_Colony_R...
But this is obviously a raised rail-bed which I can't find on the Boston lines.

Shawmut?

By BB from Dot
Wed, 10/05/2016 - 4:54pm

Maybe the old Shawmut Station, before the trains were underground?

Field's Corner Station - 1926

By Stephmcc
Wed, 10/05/2016 - 6:22pm

Judging by the railings and the two houses visible in this postcard I'm concluding that this is a vista of a long-gone Field's Corner station on the Shawmut Branch of the Old Colony Railroad in 1926. http://www.ebay.com/itm/DORCHESTER-MA-Fields-Corne... (Soon to be transformed into the MBTA Red Line)

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