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The Connecticut Valley Railroad Association, the Empire State Railway Museum, and private investors created today's for-profit Valley Railroad, obtaining a charter from the Connecticut State Legislature. The State of Connecticut took ownership of the line from the Penn Central, and designated the Valley line as a linear State Park.
The Connecticut Valley Railroad was a railroad in the state of Connecticut founded in 1868. The company built a line along the Connecticut River between Hartford and Old Saybrook, which opened in 1871. It was reorganized as the Hartford and Connecticut Valley Railroad in 1880, and leased by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in 1887.
Connecticut Central Railroad [nb 4] CCCL 1987 1998 Providence and Worcester Railroad: Shortline railroad that operated former Conrail trackage in and around Middletown, Connecticut. [8] [9] Connecticut Central Railroad: NH: 1871 1887 New York and New England Railroad: Connecticut Valley Railroad: NH: 1868 1880 Hartford and Connecticut Valley ...
The Railroad Museum of New England name and trademark was adopted in 1987, as a result of reassessing the Connecticut Valley Railroad Museum's goals and visions (CVRM had been founded in the mid-1960s). Home to one of the largest collections of preserved historic railroad equipment in New England, RMNE and its predecessor organizations have ...
In 2006, the Connecticut Valley Railroad, who had sold off their No. 1647 locomotive back in late 1991, began searching for another steam locomotive to acquire and supplement their existing roster, since 2-8-0 No. 97 was scheduled to be removed from service for a major overhaul, in 2010, while 2-8-2 No. 40's ongoing overhaul was nearly completed.
Operates Allegheny and Eastern Railroad, Pittsburg and Shawmut Railroad. California Northern Railroad [13] CFNR: III: Acquired - 2012 a: 255 mi (410 km) Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway [14] CBNS: III: Acquired - 2012 a: 245 mi (394 km) Carolina Piedmont Railroad [15] CPDR: III: Acquired - 2012 a: 33 mi (53 km) Cascade and Columbia ...
The Essex Freight Station is located at the southern end of Railroad Avenue, a spur road off Connecticut Route 154 just west of the limited access highway of Connecticut Route 9. The setting includes the railyard, now used by the heritage Connecticut Valley Railroad, which includes operable early 20th-century equipment including switches and ...
Valley Railroad 40 is a preserved 101 class 2-8-2 "Mikado" type steam locomotive, built in August 1920 by American Locomotive Company's Brooks Works for the Minarets and Western Railway. It was initially built as No. 101 for the Portland, Astoria and Pacific Railroad as part of their small order of locomotives.