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1849 Railroad Map of New England & Eastern New York. The first railroad in Connecticut was the New York and Stonington Railroad, which was chartered in May 1832 and began construction in 1833. [9] Rhode Island gained its first railroad company the next month in the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad. The two companies merged under the ...
1867 New Haven, Middletown and Boston Railroad map. At the Boston end, the earliest predecessor was the Norfolk County Railroad, chartered April 24, 1847. The line from the Boston and Providence Railroad's branch at Dedham, Massachusetts, southwest to Walpole opened on April 23, 1849, and an extension to the Providence and Worcester Railroad in Blackstone opened May 16.
Covers the railroad's history from 1951 to 1995. Foster, George H. (1989). Splendor sailed the Sound: The New Haven Railroad and the Fall River Line. Potentials. ISBN 9780962467400. Details the company's passenger boats; Karr, Ronald Dale (1989). Lost Railroads of New England. Branch Line Press. ISBN 0-942147-04-9. Kirkland, Edward Chase (1948).
The New Haven's electrification was the first of its kind; no previous railroad had practical experience operating a high voltage distribution system above a steam railroad. Many of the system's ultimate specifications were the result of educated design decisions based on the state of the electrical technology in 1907.
Abandoned work along Eddy Street in Providence. The railroad, conceived by GTR president Charles Melville Hays to break the near-monopoly of the New Haven Railroad in southern New England, was chartered in April 1910, and was to be built as a completely grade-separated air line, having low grades and long high bridges over valleys.
The Old Colony Railroad leased the B&P in April 1888, and was itself leased to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (NYNH&H or New Haven) in March 1893, while the NY&NE (which became the New England Railroad in September 1895) was leased to the NYNH&H in July 1898 and merged into the NYNH&H in 1908.
Railroad History Database; Philip C. Blakeslee, A Brief History Lines West Of The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co. (1953) Lyndon A. Haight, Pine Plains and the Railroads (1976) Surface Transportation Board - Central New England Railroad, Inc.--operation exemption--line owned by State of Connecticut Department of Transportation
The Hartford and New Haven Railroad of Connecticut was chartered in 1833 to build a railroad between Hartford and New Haven. [1] [2] It was one of the earliest railroads built in Connecticut, and was intended both to improve New Haven's access to the interior of the state, and to provide an alternative to ship transport along the Connecticut River, which froze during the winter. [1]