On an evening drive through the Quaboag Valley, Kris and I paused in Warren, Massachusetts.

I thought of my first visit here back about 1975, when my dad drove my brother and me to Tucker’s Hardware, then located on Main Street. I pointed out the gap in the building to Kris, indicating where the store had once stood on the main street.

The hardware store also sold model railroad supplies. About 1982, Bob Buck, proprietor, relocated the railroad hobby portion of the business to his boyhood home on Bacon Street (around the corner from the hardware location).

The old Boston & Albany station is located off Main Street, roughly opposite from the foot of Bacon Street.

A blue glow remained in the sky as I exposed photos of the station building, which has been restored. It looks much better now than it had for many years. As I made this 20 second exposure, I thought of all the Conrail trains I’d seen passing this relic of the B&A.

Shortly, I was joined by a member of the local police department, who drove up and engaged me in conversation, primarily concerned about my well-being. I mentioned my long affiliation with Tucker’s Hobbies, but this was before his time, and finding that I wasn’t in distress, wished me goood evening and continued about on his rounds.

Time is weird; it passes by leaving only bits of what was once something else, and me seeing ghosts of the past.

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