Chester Railway Station - Massachusetts, USA
Freight trains climb through the Berkshire hills past the old station at Chester, in western Massachusetts, and this camera watches them pass the little depot with its steep roof, through deep snow in winter and green hills in summer.
The line was built by the Western Railroad in the 1840s, the first railroad to link eastern New England with upstate New York. Crossing the Berkshires was an engineering challenge unlike anything tried before in America.
Engineer George Washington Whistler led the work, building stone arch bridges to carry the tracks over the river gorges near Chester. The depot here dates from around 1862, and it served as a base for the climb over the hills.
Did You Know? In 2021 the Chester depot and the nearby stone arch bridges were named a National Historic Landmark.
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location_on Prospect Street, Chester, Massachusetts, USA
