Southport stations collection, 1885-1992.

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Southport stations collection, 1885-1992.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70946479

Freight and financial records, reports, and memorabilia relating to the Southport, Conn., passenger and freight stations; telegrams (1885-1890) to and from the passenger station; and records of the Southport Conservancy's efforts to restore the freight station (1988-1992), including correspondence, photographs, and architectural drawings of the renovation executed by Robert Hatch.

.5 linear ft.

Fairfield Historical Society Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8047875

Fairfield Historical Society Library

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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...

Ott, Leo.

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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...

Hatch, Robert A.

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Southport Conservancy (Southport, Conn.)

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