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| The North Petersburg flag stop used as a garden shed. Bill Badger photos. |
by Bill Badger I am actually reading magazines in the year they were published and just read your piece on flagstops in RMC. That reminded me that a number of years ago I got a call from Jim Shaughessy that he had been contacted by someone in Petersburg, NY who thought they had an old Rutland Ry station at home being used as a garden shed. I was skeptical until we saw it.
The Chatham branch never had a lot of passenger business and it seems like some stations were just shelters, right out of the Rutland's standard buildings drawings seen in the Nimke Rutland books. This was apparently North Petersburg(h). The colors threw me because it looks like dark green and yellow, but those would have been 1950's colors and the station was discontinued in 1935. Then I realized it was probably the old goldenrod and black from the early 20th century, with maybe the black covered by a coat of dark green at some point or the black just deteriorating into a greenish tint. The red sash was one color that still remained.
North Pete always interested me because someone was optimistic enough to build a railroad hotel next to the line. The railroad and station are gone, but the hotel remains. Inside the old shelter the built-in seats remain.
The adventure was almost twenty years ago and the roof was pretty soft then, so I hope they re-roofed. The building is sort of visible from Rt. 22 but I have not been down that way recently to look and see if it's still standing.
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| The bench seats are seen inside still. |
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| The red can be seen on window sash. |
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| Bill and Jim measuring the structure. |
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| Railroad hotel in North Petersburg, NY March 2018. |
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| North Petersburg |
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