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The Naugatuck Railroad is a common carrier railroad owned by the Railroad Museum of New England and operated on tracks leased from the Connecticut Department of Transportation. The original Naugatuck Railroad was a railroad chartered to operate through south central Connecticut in 1845, with the first section opening for service in 1849.
In 2023, the coach was repainted to a Canadian National Railway inspired Naugatuck Railroad Paint scheme and is used on the Naugatuck Railroad's passenger excursions. 5084 Coach 1924 CC&F Acquired from the Bytown Railway Society after being donated in 2024. The coach was renumbered from 4977 to original CN number #5084.
The Naugatuck was acquired by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, which built a new station house between 1908 and 1910, and opened it in 1911. The old station was designed by Henry Bacon, one of America's foremost architects. [ 6 ]
The Naugatuck Railroad opened from Milford north to Seymour in May 1849, with the extension to Waterbury opening the next month. [4] The original wooden station was replaced in 1898 by a buff brick station, now demolished. A small modern brick shelter was installed in the 1980s or 1990s. [5]
Hartford and Springfield Street Railway Company: Danbury Railway Museum: DRMX 1994 Metro-North Railroad: Independent Naugatuck Railroad: NAUG 1996 Railroad Museum of New England: Shore Line Trolley Museum: 1945 Connecticut Company: Branford Electric Railway Association Valley Railroad: VALE 1971 Penn Central Transportation Company
Work on double-tracking the branch between Seymour and Waterbury was underway by 1906 and completed in 1907. [1] [2]In September 2015, it was announced that out of governor Dannel Malloy's 30-year-$100 billion transportation plan, $350 million has been included to improve service along the branch. [3]
The Naugatuck Center Historic District encompasses the historic civic and business center of Naugatuck, Connecticut. Centered around the town green, the district includes churches, schools and municipal buildings, many from the late 19th or early 20th centuries, as well as a diversity of residential architecture.
The Shore Line Railway was a part of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad system, running east from New Haven, Connecticut, to New London along the north shore of Long Island Sound. A segment is currently used for commuter service on CT Rail 's Shore Line East and regional/express service on Amtrak 's high-speed Northeast Corridor .