Westbrook, ME

TC_zoid said:
Looks nice. I read that the new UNE Medical school leased out the entire building.
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Ironic that, prior to 1955, that spot essentially had direct rail access to the Westbrook College campus. But doing anything with that corridor west of the Turnpike, other than salvaging scrap metal, isn't on anyone's work plan. They presumably would have had to substantially raise the Turnpike during the Warren Ave. overpass reconstruction and widening project in order to reconnect the tracks.
 
markhb said:
Ironic that, prior to 1955, that spot essentially had direct rail access to the Westbrook College campus. But doing anything with that corridor west of the Turnpike, other than salvaging scrap metal, isn't on anyone's work plan. They presumably would have had to substantially raise the Turnpike during the Warren Ave. overpass reconstruction and widening project in order to reconnect the tracks.
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And tear down this new building constructed in the ROW a few years ago:

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I actually think that development we're referring to also sits partially in the former ROW.
 
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I believe you're both right, but I think an RDC shuttle running from a new platform just north of Cumberland St. (so not using the parts that have been built on) in to Bishop St. could have been a great amenity... but again, the Turnpike is in the way as well as the ROW having been obliterated in the Riverside St. neighborhood. I just looked it up in Historic Aerials; the old grade crossing (I remember it from when I was a kid) was where the driveway into Evergreen Credit Union is now; the building for the used car lot across the street, a corner of the new Happy Wheels and Chabot St. all occupy the former ROW.
 
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