New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Records undated, 1760-1980

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New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Records undated, 1760-1980

The corporate records of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad document the history and impact of the system that dominated railroad transportation in southern New England from 1872 to 1969.

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Seaboard Airline Railroad

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Seaboard Air Line Railway was established in 1900. The company had lines in the Georgia Piedmont and Coastal Plain, and in 1904 a line from Atlanta to Birmingham, Alabama was added. The company's successor was CSX. From the description of Seaboard Air Line freight received, 1893-1896. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 319072236 ...

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was leader of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the thirty-fourth president of the United States, from January 20, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, the third son of David Jacob Eisenhower, a railroad worker, and Ida Elizabeth Stover. In 1891, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where David accepted a job at a local creamery run by ...

Old Colony Railroad

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L. S. Miller

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Hotel Roosevelt

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Providence, Warren, and Bristol Railroad Co.

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State Supreme Court

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Norwich and Worcester Railroad

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New Haven and Northampton Railroad

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Lina-Hamilton

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County Transportation Company

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Harlem River and Portchester Railroad

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Providence Produce Warehouse Company

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American Locomotive Company

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The American Locomotive Company was incorporated in 1901 by merging 7 small locomotive companies with the Schenectady Locomotive Engine Manufactory (incorprated 1848). In 1955, the company changed its name to Alco Products, Incorporated. In 1964, the Worthington Corporation Acquired Alco. Alco has headquarters in New York City and a main plant in Schenectady, N.Y., with other plants in Auburn and Dunkirk, N.Y., and Latrobe, Pa. Alco's Schenectady facilities have affiliations with Ge...

ConRail

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The Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) was incorporated in Pennsylvania on February 10, 1976, for the purpose of taking over the viable portions of the Penn Central Transportation Company and other bankrupt Northeastern railroads as determined by the 1975 Final System Plan of the United States Railway Association. Conrail''s securities were owned by the federal government for funds advanced, and by its employees for wage and hours givebacks. Initial operation was as troubled and unprofitabl...

U. S. Railroad Administration

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McGinnis, Patrick B.

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Grand Central Terminal

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New York Connecting Railroad

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Wood River Branch Narragansett Pier Railroad

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Connecticut and Passumipsic Railroad

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Dutchess County Railroad.

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Massachusetts. Department of Public Utilities

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Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joyce), 1903-

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Western Shore Railway

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Northern Railroad

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New York Stamford Railway Company

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Pennsylvannia Railroad

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New England Transportation Company

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New England Transportation

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Hotel Parklane

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Springfield Street Railroad

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Equitable Trust Company.

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Berkshire Street Railway Company

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Wilton Railroad

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Stamford Railway Company

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National Bank of Commerce

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Hotel Barclay

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Soundview Transportation Company

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New York and Stamford Railway Company

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Boston and Providence Railroad.

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Boston Market Terminal Co.

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Securities and Exchange Commission

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Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co.

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Eastern Steamship Corp.

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Pemigewasset Valley Railroad.

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Providence Produce Warehouse

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Providence and Worcester Railroad Company

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Naugatuck Railroad

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Yale Law School

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In the first decade of the nineteenth century, Seth P. Staples (Yale 1797) opened a school for law students in New Haven. In 1824 the school became affiliated with Yale College. The college conferred its first law degrees in 1843. The course of study originally extended for two years, and in 1896 it was lengthened to three years. Subsequently a college degree became a prerequisite for the Bachelor of Laws degree. Graduate courses leading to advanced degrees began in 1876. In 1926 honors courses ...

Boston and Maine Railroad

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New England Airlines Inc.

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Harry W. Dorrigan

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Superior Court

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U.S. District Court

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United States. District Court

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The 1848 Act of Congress which established Oregon Territory replaced the existing county circuit courts with U.S. District Courts. The Territory was divided into three judicial districts and each of the three Supreme Court justices was assigned to a district. U.S. District Courts were established in every county in each judicial district and the presiding justice rotated through the courts under his jurisdiction. Territorial legislation, passed in 1849, gave U.S. Distric...

Springfield Street Railroad Co.

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Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railwa

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Interstate Limited Motor Coach

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New England Steamship Company

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New Haven Police Department

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New Haven Railroad

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Patrick McGinnis

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J. W. Moore

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Federal District Court

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Hotel Biltmore

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Greenwich Tramway Company

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Hartford Connecticut Western Railroad

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Alpert, George, 1898-1988

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New York Connecting Railway

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Peterboro Railroad

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Boston and New York Air Line

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London Stock Exchange

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Edwin Adams

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Interstate Commerce Commission

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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...

Holyoke and Westfield Railroad Company.

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Manufacturers Realty Company

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Harry William Dorrigan

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New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company.

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For almost one hundred years the New York, New Haven, & 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 ...

Interstate Commerce Committee

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Connecticut Company

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Berkshire Motor Coach Company

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William Johnson Kirk

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New England Navigation Company

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Public Utilities Commission

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Agency History The duties of the Public Utilities Commission (hereafter P.U.C.) involve the regulation of the intrastate activities of railroads and other transportation companies, including inter-urban and street railways, steamship companies, canals, toll bridges, pipelines, and freight by stages and trucks, and includes the regulation of warehouses and of public utilities engaged in the selling of water for domestic and irrigation purposes...

Penn Central

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Boston Holding Co.

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Connecticut Railway Lighting Company

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Pennsylvania Railroad

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The Pennsylvania Railroad Company was the largest railroad in the United States in terms of corporate assets and traffic from the last quarter of the nineteenth century until the decline of the northeast's and midwest's dominance of manufacturing, caused by the evolution of the interstate highway system and the advancements in air transportation. Originally created by Philadelphia merchants in 1846, it sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh via the Allegheny Mountains to c...

South Bay Wharf and Terminal Company

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Boston Terminal Co.

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Fairbanks, Morse & Company.

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Harold Norris

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Consolidated Railway Company

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County Transportation

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Hotel Commodore

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Springfield Railway Company

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Chatham Railroad Company.

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Association of American railroads

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The Association of American Railroads formed in 1934 primarily to represent the freight railroad industry. The East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company was a short-line narrow gauge railroad, chartered in 1856 and built in 1872-1874 to service the coal fields of the remote Broad Top Mountain area of south-central Pennsylvania and to haul that product to the Pennsylvania Railroad at Mount Union or to on-line iron furnaces. The East Broad Top ceased operations in 1956 but ...

Providence, Warren & Bristol Railroad

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New York Public Service Commission

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Hotel Waldorf Astoria

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Central New England Railway

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Housatonic Railroad

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A. J. Beauton

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New York Central Railroad

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The New York Central Railroad first stationed business representatives in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1853. However, it was not until 1870 that the railroad established a significant presence in the local railroad economy. During the 1880s and 1890s the New York Central purchased controlling interests in various railroads to secure routes into Cleveland from the east and west. During the early twentieth century the railroad built and bought lines through and around Cleveland. Yards that wer...

United States District Court, District of Connecticut

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