New York , New Haven & Hartford Railroad Predecessor Company collection, 1815-1907.

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New York , New Haven & Hartford Railroad Predecessor Company collection, 1815-1907.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/163148724

This collection contains journals entries, bills of lading, vouchers, receipts, invoices, and correspondence of several southern New England railroads, particularly those that were predecessor lines of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, including the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad; the Boston and New York Airline Railroad; the Central New England Railway; the Charles River Railroad; the Chicago and Evanston Railroad; the Connecticut River Railroad; the Hartford and New Haven Railroad; the Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad; the Housatonic Railroad; the Housantonic and Naugatuck Railroad; the Meriden and Cromwell Railroad; the Meriden, Waterbury, and Connecticut River Railroad; the Naugatuck Railroad; the New Haven and Derby Railroad; the New Haven and Northern Railroad; the New Haven and Northampton Company; the New York and New England Railroad; the New York and New Haven Railroad; the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad; the Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad; the Norfolk County Railroad; the Philadelphia, Reading, and New England Railroad; and the Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railway. The collection also includes correspondence Julius Wadsworth, who operated a New York based bond brokerage that heavily invested in railroads and Charles F. Pond, president of the Hartford and New Haven Railroad. The topics document general railroad concerns, including locomotive and freight car parts and repairs, per item costs on cars and rails, and bridge building.

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University of Connecticut, Homer Babbidge Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6906506

University of Connecticut, Homer Babbidge Library

Related Entities

There are 18 Entities related to this resource.

New Haven and Derby Railroad

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Philadelphia, Reading, and New England Railroad.

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New York & New England Railroad

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ng9n18 (corporateBody)

Hartford, Providence, and Fishkill Railroad.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mh2m17 (corporateBody)

Connecticut River Railroad Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jx3bgn (corporateBody)

Newburgh, Dutchess & Connecticut Railroad

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The Newburgh, Dutchess, and Coonecticut Railroad was a shortline that ran from Beacon to Millerton, New York. It was originally chartered in 1866 as the Dutches and Columbia Railroad, but reoragnized and renamed in 1877. In 1904, this line was acquired by the New York, Hew Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company. The Clove Brach line operated from the iron ore mines near Sylvan Lake to the mainline at Hopewell Junction. From the description of Records, 1877-1905. (New York State Library...

Norfolk County Railroad

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Chicago and Evanston Railroad.

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New York and New Haven Railroad.

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Central New England Railway Company

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New York, Providence and Boston Railroad.

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New Haven & Northampton Railroad

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6615qrg (corporateBody)

New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company

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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...

Naugatuck Railroad

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Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railway.

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Housatonic Railroad

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Charles River Railroad.

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Wadsworth, Julius

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Railroad company executive, Chicago businessman, founding partner Wadsworth and Dyer Drygoods, 1836. Held several real estate properties in Chicago. Vestryman of Holy Trinity Church, New York City. From the description of Papers, 1841-1895 and undated. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 39312578 ...