The 1870 timetable in Turner and Jacobus lists this stop as Waldo's, and the Tyler City Station site has a map that shows the depot as being between the road and Merrick Brook, which the 1892 USGS quadrangle above seems to confirm. This is one of the most scenic spots on the Providence & Worcester's Willimantic line, and is thus one of the great places to see active railroading on the old Hartford, Providence, and Fishkill.
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Looking
southeast towards Baltic from the small crossing east of the station
site. Because the railroad meanders down the Quinebaug and up the
Shetucket, it's going downstream and southwest towards Lisbon, but
upstream and northwest after that inflection point (12/2023.) |
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Looking northwest towards the
Scotland Station Site and South Windham from the crossing east of the
site. The bridge over Merrick Brook is just visible in the distance,
which means that according to the map at Tyler City Station,
the depot would have been in the brush to the right of the railroad
tracks in this picture. The photos at Tyler City Station seem to show
the road as above the tracks in elevation, and that suggests to me that
the depot was actually right in front of the camea, very close to the
crossing. That said, I'm not sure (12/2023.) |
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A small structure in the leaf litter along the railroad between the Scotland crossing and Merrick Brook (12/2023.) |
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West of the crossing, the road
is lower than the railroad grade, making me think the station must have
been right at the crossing. This is looking east. (12/2023.) |
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Looking east along the road to the crossing at Scotland Station from Merrick Brook (12/2023.) |
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A view of the bridge over
Merrick Brook just west of the station site at Scotland. The Shetucket
River is just visible in the background. According to the Connecticut
DOT Bridge Inventory, this bridge (09302R) is located in the town of
Scotland, not Sprague (the border is right there.) (12/2023.) |
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Closer view of the Merrick Brook Bridge (12/2023.) |
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The plaque appears to say "The
King Brige Company" on the top arch, Cleveland, Ohio on the bottom,
with a year in the middle. I can't read the date, but I can't argue
with the Connecticut DOT bridge inventory that says the bridge, 09302R,
was built in 1901. A Google Image search of "King Bridge Company
Cleveland Plaque" returns plaques like this, so I think they are in
fact the builder (12/2023.) |
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Providence and Worcester GE Dash-8 B39-8 locomotive 3901 (4/1988) crosses the Merrick Brook Bridge in Scotland, Conn (12/2023.) |
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Providence and Worcester GE Dash-8 B40-8W locomotive 4007 (4/1992) crosses the Merrick Brook Bridge in Scotland, Conn (12/2023.) |
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Providence and Worcester GE Dash-8 B40-8W locomotive 4007 (4/1992) and America's Styrenics covered hopper ASOX 896556 (built probably 1/1997) cross the Merrick Brook Bridge in Scotland, Conn (12/2023.) |
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Interstate Commodities covered hopper INTX 1146 (built possibly 5/1979) and Canadian National cylindrical covered hopper CN 382216 (built possibly 1981) cross the Merrick Brook Bridge in Scotland, Conn (12/2023.) |
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Canadian National cylindrical covered hopper CN 382216 (built possibly 1981), Iowa Northern Rwy Boxcar IANR 8073 (built 1/1979), and General American Marks Company tank car GATX 69762 (built 3/1995) cross the Merrick Brook Bridge in Scotland, Conn (12/2023.) |
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General American Marks Company tank car GATX 69762 (built 3/1995), R.E.D. Technologies gondola RDTX 268019 (probably built 4/1980,) and Canadian National gondola CN 136743 (built 8/1975) cross the Merrick Brook Bridge in Scotland, Conn (12/2023.) |
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Two Greenbriar Management Services gondolas, AOKX 42339 and AOKX 42310 (both built 8/2022) cross the Merrick Brook Bridge in Scotland, CT. In between them is an interesting survivor: Northern Oklahoma Railway gondola NOKL 320356 (built 11/1995,)
wearing its "Gondola Connection" livery from when it bore the reporting
mark of now defunct Michigan shortline Coe Rail. (12/2023.) |
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Two Northwestern Oklahoma Railroad gondolas, NOKL 323737 (built 6/2018) and NOKL 322064 (built 2/1999) cross Merrick Brook in Scotland, CT (12/2023.) |
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Two Greenbriar Management Services gondolas, AOKX 42318 and AOKX 42334 (both built 8/2022) crossing Merrick Brook in Scotland, CT |
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Greenbriar Management Services gondola AOKX 42313 (built 8/2022) carries the end-of-train device across Merrick Brook in Scotland Connecticut (12/2023.) |
All rolling stock identification was done with www.rrpicturearchives.net
In particular I would like to acknowledge Leighton L. Haeseler, who has seen a lot of these same cars (they seem to be repeat visitors to Connecticut) and takes the time to research their build dates and histories. His work confirmed many of the identifications here.
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