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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.
Naugatuck Railroad: NAUG 1996 Guilford Rail System: Primarily a heritage railroad, but also provides freight service between Waterbury and Torrington. Railroad Museum of New England [1] New England Central Railroad: NECR 1995 Central Vermont Railway: Operates a main line between New London and the Massachusetts state line, via Willimantic ...
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 ...
Springfield Mass Waterfront 1900-1910. By 1870 the expansion of industry had created the opportunity for the creation of a trolley system; the Springfield Street Railway began horsecar service on March 10, 1870, followed by its first electric
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 former station building in 2012. Rail service in Naugatuck dates back to the 1840s with the establishment of the Naugatuck Railroad.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.
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]
The Wason Manufacturing Company was a maker of railway passenger coaches and streetcars during the 19th and early 20th century. The company was founded in 1845 in Springfield, Massachusetts by Charles Wason (1816-1888) and Thomas Wason (1811-1870). [ 3 ]