New Haven Railroad Construction Photograph Collection. circa 1890s.

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New Haven Railroad Construction Photograph Collection. circa 1890s.

The New Haven Railroad was formed in 1872 through the merger of the Hartford and New Haven Railroad and the New York and New Haven Railroad. On January 1, 1969, it formally folded into the PennCentral Railroad system.

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New Haven 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 a...

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The collection holds documents related to early southern New England railroads, particularly those that were predecessor lines of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, the railroad predominant railroad in the region from 1872, when it was established through the merger of the New York and New Haven Railroad and the Hartford and New Haven Railroad, to 1969, when it was absorbed into Penn Central. From the description of New York , New Haven & Hartford Railroad Predecess...

Housatonic Railroad

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