Gregg M. Turner Connecticut railroad research collection, 1832-1985.

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Gregg M. Turner Connecticut railroad research collection, 1832-1985.

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A collection of primary and secondary materials gathered by Gregg M. Turner while researching the history of railroads in Connecticut. The research resulted in the book, Connecticut Railroads...An Illustrated History published by the Connecticut Historical Society. Among the materials are time tables for various rail lines associated with The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad between 1890 and 1968. Annual reports are included from 1833 to 1874 (New York, Providence & Boston R.R. Co.) and 1920 to 1960 (New York, New Haven and Hartford). Additionally there is an assortment of Rules and Regulations books for railroad employees, a book classifying locomotives, and maps of railroad lines. Photographs and other items used for the production of the book are arranged by chapter. An inventory of the material, compiled by Turner, is included with the collection.

4 linear feet (8 boxes).

Connecticut Historical Society

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Connecticut Historical Society

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Turner, Gregg M.

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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...

Jacobus, Melancthon W. (Melancthon Williams)

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Jensen, Oliver, 1914-2005

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Editor, writer. From the description of Reminiscences of Oliver Ormerod Jensen : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309739742 ...