Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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
The Waterbury extension opened as far as Dublin Street on July 4, 1888. [4] Construction on the final section in Waterbury to connect with the New York and New England Railroad (NY&NE) began later that month and was completed early in 1889. [5] The route of this segment along the Mad River required several substantial trestles.
The company was reorganized in 1893 as the Waterbury Traction Company, rebuilding and electrifying its routes by the summer of 1894. [1] Connecticut Lighting and Power Company bought out Waterbury Traction Company in June 1899. The name of the new consolidated company was changed to Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company in 1901. [2]
The Waterbury Branch is a branch of the Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, running north from a junction in the Devon section of Milford to Waterbury, Connecticut. Originally built as the Naugatuck Railroad , it once continued north to Winsted .
By then the line north of Waterbury was named the Torrington Secondary Track, and ended at Torrington. On January 1, 1971, the State of Connecticut and the MTA leased passenger and freight operations along the Waterbury Branch to Penn Central. [1] On April 1, 1976, Penn Central's railroad operations were conveyed to Conrail. Freight traffic ...
[89] [16] In 1991, CTDOT purchased 10 Bombardier Shoreliner III coaches, similar to ones already used on the Danbury Branch and Waterbury Branch, and leased three additional diesel locomotives: two EMD GP38s and one EMD GP7. [90] [74] In 1994, Amtrak rebuilt 11 of CTDOT's surplus SPV-2000 diesel railcars into coaches, dubbed "Constitution Liners."
Waterbury station is a commuter rail stop on the Waterbury Branch of the Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, located on Meadow Street in Waterbury, Connecticut. It ...
By 1924, the Connecticut Company operated some 1,640-passenger cars over a network of 834 miles of track. [1] Although street railway services remained through much of Connecticut, as early as the 1920s underperforming street- and heavy-rail lines began to be replaced by motor coach services.