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The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, the New Haven for short, was by today's standards a regional railroad connecting New York City with Boston. At the apex of it's expansion, c.1900, the NH owned nearly every railroad and transit system in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts south of the New York Central's Boston & Albany mainline.
The New Haven reached into New York State to Maybrook, NY via the Poughkeepsie Bridge accross the Hudson River at it's namesake city, into Long Island City ( to connect with the LIRR ) and New York Penn Station via the historic Hell Gate Bridge, and the NYC's Grand Central Terminal. GCT replaced Grand Central Station in 1913, which itself was an 1890 redesign of Grand Central Depot built in 1871 (all built on the same 42nd Street location), the New Haven served all 3 Grand Centrals as well as an even earlier station some 20 blocks south of GCT.
After years of red ink caused by high passenger costs and a sharp drop in freight tonnage related to customers either closing or switching to trucks, the NH was merged into the ill-fated Penn Central on Jan. 1, 1969. A short 18 months later PC went bankrupt. On April 1, 1976 PC along with the Reading, Central of New Jersey, Lehigh & Hudson River, Erie-Lackawanna, Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines, Lehigh Valley, and a score of subsidiary & terminal companies were merged to form Conrail.
Today a number of sections of the New Haven live on in the form of shortline spin-offs from Conrail, commuter operations run by the MBTA (Boston) & MTA/CDOT (NYCity), and intercity passenger trains run by Amtrak from Penn Station, over Hell Gate Bridge ( which still see freight service ), to New Haven, CT and on to Springfield, MA via Hartford, CT and Boston via the NH's Shore Line. You can even find some of the NH's FL9 diesel/electic duel mode engines pulling commuter trains out of Grand Central Terminal, those owned by the CDOT are painted in NH colors!
It's been 30 years since she died, but she is anything but forgotten.
Are you interested in the New Haven?, then why not subscribe to the New Haven e-mail discussion list? If you have any questions about the list feel free to e-mail this website's owner, AJ Kleipass, at NYOW@railfan.net.
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