. King's handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts : a series of monographs, historical and descriptive. of the depot is used for theeastward business of the Boston and Albany Railroad, and also by the New-York, New-Haven, and Hartford Railroad, the cars of which enter the build-ing by a side-track. The depot is about 401 feet in length, and 113 feet inwidth. It has two arcade extensions, each 225 feet long. The depot islighted by electric lamps; and on one side is a chronometer clock in con-nection with the Cambridge Observatory, as well as with the large and ele-gant granite building containing
. King's handbook of Springfield, Massachusetts : a series of monographs, historical and descriptive. of the depot is used for theeastward business of the Boston and Albany Railroad, and also by the New-York, New-Haven, and Hartford Railroad, the cars of which enter the build-ing by a side-track. The depot is about 401 feet in length, and 113 feet inwidth. It has two arcade extensions, each 225 feet long. The depot islighted by electric lamps; and on one side is a chronometer clock in con-nection with the Cambridge Observatory, as well as with the large and ele-gant granite building containing the offices of the Boston and AlbanyRailroad. A new union depot has been much talked of, and is evidently tobe built within a few years. The Boston and Albany Railroad, the main route traversing a noble monument to the foresight and enterprise of its citizens of half acentury ago. In the happy and conservative old times of the Adams andJefferson administration, Massachusetts found her only routes of internaltransportation on the highways which wound through her picturesque valleys.
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