Thomas R. Lewis Railroad Collection. 1855-1974.

Hartford, Providence & Fishkill Railroad

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Lewis, Thomas R.

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Thomas R. Lewis is a resident of Vernon, Connecticut, and an emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Connecticut . He is the author of Silk Along Steel: the Story of the South Manchester Railroad (Chester, Conn.: Published for Manchester Community College Press by Pequot Press, 1976). The South Manchester Railroad was a short railroad line -- just two miles long -- built in 1869 to serve the silk mills of the Cheney Brothers Silk Manufacturing Company in Manchester, Connecticut . Th...

Penn Central Transportation Company

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The Penn Central Transportation Company was formed in 1968 with the merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company (1846-1968) and the New York Central Railroad Company (1853-1968). The companies also absorbed the smaller New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad. All three companies were the result of the consolidation of many smaller, regional rail lines throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The new corporation was short lived, declaring bankruptcy in June 1970. The United States go...

Case, A. Wells

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Philadelphia, Reading & New England Railroad

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South Manchester Railroad

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Clinton Line Railroad Company.

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Central New England Railway

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Cheney.

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Cheney Brothers Silk Manufacturing Company (Manchester, Conn.)

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New York New Haven & Hartford Railroad

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For almost one hundred years the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, better known as the New Haven Railroad, was the primary means of passenger and freight transportation in southern New England. Chartered in 1872, this merger between the New York & New Haven and Hartford & New Haven railroads later included the long desired rail link between Boston and New York. Approximately one hundred small independent railroads were built in southern New England between 1826 and the 1880s. B...