Boston & Maine / MBTA Station
-- Belmont Center, Massachusetts --
Built 1908
Below are a series of photos from 2019 showing various details and features of the of the Boston & Maine railroad station at Belmont Center, Massachusetts.
The stones that make up the station walls were reportedly sourced from a farm near the Belmont Hill Club. Some are very interesting!
One of the granite slabs used for windows. It is difficult to tell from photos, but the stone appears to have a faint pink/purple hue, which no doubt was brilliant looking when the station was brand new!
This view shows the "north portal" of the pedestrian subway which allows people to get from one side of the ROW to the other without crossing the tracks. The floor is of buff-colored brick, with walls covered by decades of graffiti care of local school kids... most of which deserves to be painted over...
You know you've been around a long time when trees grow around you! There are many spots where the original metal fencing has "become one with nature".
Detail of the terra-cotta roof on the south side of the station. The north side has reddish asphalt "fish scale" shingles.
Ever since I was young, I wondered what this area was all about. It is on the north side of the tracks, by what was once the Central Massachusetts ROW. I now know there was an actual structure over it, called a "baggage elevator". There are many traces of "NEBCo" brick-impressions in the cement foundation wall. New England Brick Company had locations at the old Parry Brothers brick yard, where Belmont High School is located, and over the town line in West Cambridge.
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