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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 ...
Central Massachusetts Railroad: B&M: 1883 1901 Boston and Maine Railroad: Central New England Railway: CNE NH: 1899 1938 N/A Central Vermont Railroad: CN: 1873 1899 Central Vermont Railway: Central Vermont Railway: CV CN: 1899 1995 New England Central Railroad: Charles River Railroad: NH: 1851 1855 New York and Boston Railroad: Charles River ...
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 ...
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]
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 ]
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 ...