On the news tonight.
The Torrington Station, here in Torrington CT is going to be razed starting next week. One of two New Haven Railroad stations left north of Waterbury, Ct on the Naugatuck Branch.
Since the town owned it, they couldn't get money to renovate, it's going to be torn down. I'm going to see if I can get a brick from it.
Naugatuck Railroad work train parked next to the Torrington Station
Torrington, Ct.
NARA Member #87
I went to my Happy Place, but it was closed for renovations.
The crane parked next to it is an ominous foreshadowing of things to come.. We almost lost the Dansbury depot here in PA. It was a literal last minute save, so keep up hope till the last second.
My other car is a locomotive, ARHS restoration crew
I remember when the one in Oshawa was torn down in 1991. One day it was standing and the next day, gone. No warning, no notice. I was going to go out that weekend to take pictures of it as well.
Document as much of the station as you can before it is razed, with as many photographs as are necessary ... including lots of detail shots, because you never know when you (or someone you know) might want to build a model of it!
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & Western
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Or an Historical society may be interested. I took pics of the Baldwin plant before and during the time it was torn down and I have been approached 3 times for information and copies of the pictures I took
P5se Camelback Wrote:Document as much of the station as you can before it is razed, with as many photographs as are necessary ... including lots of detail shots, because you never know when you (or someone you know) might want to build a model of it!
Actually, about five years ago I did start one, but for some reason or another I shelved it. I think maybe because I used the wrong DPM walls. If you notice, on the protoype, the windows are squared, where as I used the arched ones. Plus, I wasn't satisfied the way the first roof turned out, the next two shots are the second roof rebuild.
Torrington, Ct.
NARA Member #87
I went to my Happy Place, but it was closed for renovations.
