This is what it was like to wait for a NYNH&H train at the Pawtucket-Central Falls Station in Rhode Island (it was built over the border of CF and Pawt). I grew up within walking distance and was a relatively frequent user. Providence was a lot faster by train than by bus. The ticket office closed in 1959 and I can vaguely remember buying Pullman tickets there for some ovenight trips I took in Canada and Maine that year. I shot this close to the time the station was closed in 1960. The platforms, reached from Barton Street, remained open until the 1970's for locals between Providence and Boston. The station was in fairly good shape fifty years ago but what remains today is a disgrace,

Photographed by Edward Ozog, 1961.
Added to the photo archive by Edward Ozog, September 25, 2009.
Railroad: New Haven.

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