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The Housatonic Railroad was a railroad in the U.S. states of Connecticut and Massachusetts, chartered in 1836.Opened between Bridgeport, Connecticut, and New Milford, Connecticut, in 1840, it was completed to a connection with the Western Railroad in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1842.
The NY&NH leased it on November 1, 1870, as an eastern extension of its line. On September 7, 1870, the NY&NH and Hartford & New Haven agreed to consolidate into one continuous line from New York to Springfield, Massachusetts. This merger happened on July 24, 1872, forming the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. [2]
On July 1, 1880, the Hartford and Connecticut Valley Railroad took control with president Samuel Babcock. [1] Passenger service ended in stages: between Saybrook Point and Fenwick in 1917, between Fenwick and Saybrook Junction in 1922, between Saybrook Junction and Middletown in 1929 or 1930, and Middletown and Hartford in 1933. [3]
A 1974 state plan again proposed an extension to Park Street, while the 1978 and 1983 Program for Mass Transportation updates called for an extension to Charles/MGH instead. [ 15 ] A 1986 MBTA feasibility study for an extension to Charles/MGH evaluated a cut-and-cover tunnel beginning west of Bowdoin Street with no changes to Bowdoin station.
Dec. 2—The Cliff Hagan Boys and Girls Club will host a ribbon-cutting for its new extension facility in Hartford Thursday. The facility originally opened in August after nearly three years of ...
The Maybrook Line was a line of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad which connected with its Waterbury Branch in Derby, Connecticut, and its Maybrook Yard in Maybrook, New York, where it interchanged with other carriers.
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By the mid-1960s, a Route 9 freeway alignment through Hartford was finally abandoned. Route 9 was truncated to end at I-91 in Cromwell instead. The portion of old Route 9 from Hartford to Granby was assigned as an extension of Route 189 , while the Cromwell to Hartford segment that was not upgraded to freeway was re-designated as Route 99 .