Mishawum station
On this side, too. That's Route 128 on the overpass; the platform doesn't quite get that far.
Mishawum station
Looking north, there is the usual pair of mini-highs.
Mishawum station
There's something strange about this platform that I can't quite place...
Mishawum station
Yes, the whole platform edge is entirely missing from both mini-highs. That means that this mini-high is actually NOT accessible — and of course because the station used to be accessible and isn't any more, it can't legally be open.
Mishawum station
Other than the missing platform edge, this station does seem to be in pretty decent condition. But without parking, there doesn't seem to be much nearby for it to serve, situated as it is in the middle of an industrial-park wasteland on the side of a freeway.
Mishawum station
It USED to have parking, back in the days when you paid for parking by folding up two dollar bills and shoving them into the slot for your space number. That gives some idea of how long it's been....
Anderson RTC/Woburn station
I don't know how many oceans of parking this station has
Anderson RTC
Over there is the ocean of parking for Logan Express (currently closed) and a canopy for riders boarding the buses. No air travel means no Logan Express, at least not from Woburn.
Anderson RTC
Walkway system connecting station building, parking lots, and center platform
Anderson RTC
Off in the distance, some new residential construction, but if they want to take the train, it's a bid of a hike through all the parking and busy access roads.
Anderson RTC
Down on the platform, looking south from the end of the stairs
Anderson RTC
Looking south past the end of the platform. Note the freight bypass track at right, which Pan Am somehow got the state to build.
Anderson RTC
Signals at the interlocking for the freight bypass, which also includes a universal crossover
Anderson RTC
Just inside the station building from the platform bridge
Anderson RTC
Ground floor of the big atrium, mostly unoccupied given the lack of travel
Wilmington station
The usual mini-high on the outbound side, although surprisingly at the far south end of the parking lot
Wilmington station
Looking north along the outbound mini-high, with the inbound low-level platform in the distance at left
Wilmington station
The outbound platform is so far south because the turnout for the Wildcat Branch is just north of the mini-high
Wilmington station
Walking a bit down the low-level outbound platform looking back north towards the station
Wilmington station
Sure looks like this used to be a four-track main line, or at least was when that overpass was originally sited.
Wilmington station
Looking up the line towards a universal crossover allowing both tracks to access the Wildcat branch
Wilmington station
Now over on the inbound side, looking north again as the Wildcat diverges off to the right past the depot building
North Billerica station
LRTA operates this station, and it's served by the route 3 bus from Lowell roughly hourly on weekdays.
North Billerica station
Of course there's the traditional ocean of parking...
North Billerica station
...and the usual low-level platforms with mini-highs at the distal ends
North Billerica station
At least this station has the modern departure monitors.
North Billerica station
Apparently it's a historic right-of-way. (They obviously do not operate narrow-gauge today, and I'm not sure why you'd want to mark the site of a technological dead end that is some fifty years after the beginning of standard-gauge railroading, but anyhow...)
North Billerica station
Back side of the station, seen from the outbound platform
North Billerica station
I guess there's another parking lot on the east side? (I didn't go all the way over there due to the declining daylight.)
North Billerica station
Looking south along the line from the end of the outbound platform
North Billerica station
It's a cute station building, which Wikipedia tells me, to my surprise, is a 1990s renovation of the original 1867 depot.
North Billerica station
Inbound mini-high, with the departure monitor already showing Monday morning's next train.
North Billerica station
The outbound mini-high actually doesn't look like it's in all that great condition.
North Billerica station
Dead payphone on the side of the depot building
Iron Horse Park
Decaying industrial buildings Mellon was too cheap to demolish
