36. ABANDONED: The Railroad that Went Down with the Titanic

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We’re heading to Woonsocket this week to check out a mural painted on what was an unassuming concrete wall you wouldn’t think twice about. But this concrete wall actually has an incredibly interesting backstory, one with ties to the Titanic.

To Visit: Cass Ave, Woonsocket, RI - across from Woonsocket High School

Episode Source Material:

• The Southern New England Railway
• Southern New England Railway - Wikipedia
• https://www.providencejournal.com/article/20140202/LIFESTYLE/302029971
• NEW HAVEN TO BOSTON
• Titanic helped sink New Haven Railroad
• New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
• New Hampshire Railroad - Historic Context Statement
• Cass Ave. railroad abutment will be a concrete canvas for high school art teacher and her students as they’ll put paint to plaster to pay tribute to Charles Melville Hays Mural in the making
• New York Times | Indict 21 in Deals of the New Haven
• New York Times | New Haven Story One of Upheavals
• Charles Melville Hays : Titanic Victim
• Biography – HAYS, CHARLES MELVILLE – Volume XIV (1911-1920) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
• Charles Melville Hays | Titanic Database Wiki | Fandom
• Founder of Prince Rupert died on the Titanic 100 years ago By DAVE KIFFER
• Why the Titanic Still Fascinates Us | History
• Cass Avenue mural recalls railroad that might’ve been
• Paint progress
• White Star Line
• Titanic
• JUST BEFORE SMASH HAYS SAID DISASTER
• Railway magnate expected rescue from Titanic
• JUST BEFORE SMASH HAYS SAID DISASTER
• The Golden Age of Rail.
• Charles Melville Hays Biography
• The Truth about the Titanic - CHAPTER I - THE LAST DAY ABOARD SHIP