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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.
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
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.
Train over the Norwalk River (1914 postcard). The New Haven system was formed by the merger of two railroads that intersected in New Haven, Connecticut: the Hartford and New Haven Railroad, which began service between New Haven and Hartford in 1839 and reached Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1844, and the New York and New Haven Railroad, which opened in 1848 between its namesake cities. [3]
Midland Railway 1866 Boston and New York Central Railroad 1858 Norfolk County Railroad 1853; Southbridge and Blackstone Railroad 1853; New York and Boston Railroad 1864 Charles River Branch Railroad 1855; Woonsocket Union Railroad 1858; Thompson and Willimantic Railroad 1863; Connecticut Central Railroad 1880 Springfield and New London Railroad ...
A CSX train in Springfield, Massachusetts along the company's former Boston and Albany Railroad main line between Selkirk, New York and Boston. Railroads have played an important role in New England ever since the Granite Railway, America's first commercial railway, began operations in Massachusetts in 1826. As industrialization spread across ...
The Railroad Hobby Show is a fund-raiser for the nonprofit Amherst Railway Society. Since 1991, the society has donated more than $800,000 raised through the show to various railroad museums, historical societies, nonprofit groups and organizations dedicated to preserving railroad history and restoring railroad equipment and structures, as well ...
The Connecticut Company was the primary electric street railway company in the U.S. state of Connecticut, operating both city and rural trolleys and freight service. It was controlled by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (New Haven), which also controlled most steam railroads in the state.