STERLING STATION, Its Trains, People and More, Seen Through the Eyes of a Child

by Laura A. Decker

Come down Memory Lane with me with the big iron horse that came down from Auburn twice daily, stopping along the way to Fair Haven. This is through the eyes of a child. I remember the whistle that blew when it came under the old bridge on what is now known as the Cosgrove road. The bridge is long gone now. My brother, Howard Liddle and I would stand on that bridge when the train went under it while the steam came up between the boards. That Iron Horse was not like the ones today. It was big and black and was coal fed. I remember its smoke stack with its trail of smoke going with it. The “Y” in back of the barn was where the railroad cars were left that didn’t need to go to Fair Haven. (more…)