Today in the Hartford Courant was a story about a turntable bridge made for the Providence,Webster and Springfield Railroad. It was reinstalled at a rail yard in Willimatic Ct. previously used by the New York, New haven and Hartford railroad. As you may or not know my grandfather (Lester Larrabee) was an Engineer for them. How does this relate, you might ask? Well in the 1910 Census for WEBSTER Ma. we find Lester,Lillian and their sons Francis and Galen listed. We can speculate that He probably worked for the Providence, Webster and Springfield railroad first and later for The New Haven railroad. So take a look at the video and wonder if he traveled over this turntable or passed through this rail yard. www.courant.com/turntable
I think GF Larrabee is the railroad man on the left. The portrait is of him probably at age 18. (His birthdate was 1880)
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Very cool. I saw a picture in the newspaper about the turntable, then got distracted so I'll go back and read it. Thanks for the link too.
You are so awesome for doing this! I love it and LOVE YOU.
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