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The Housatonic Railroad (/ ˌ h uː s ə ˈ t ɒ n ɪ k / HOOS-ə-TON-ik; reporting mark HRRC) is a Class III railroad operating in southwestern New England and eastern New York.It was chartered in 1983 to operate a short section of ex-New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in northwestern Connecticut, and has since expanded north and south, as well as west into New York State.
The Housatonic Railroad was a railroad in the U.S. states of Connecticut and Massachusetts, chartered in 1836. Opened between Bridgeport, Connecticut , and New Milford, Connecticut , in 1840, it was completed to a connection with the Western Railroad in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts , in 1842.
Formed in 1835 to build north from Hartford to the Massachusetts state line. Owned and operated by the Hartford and New Haven Railroad, merged into that company in 1847. [12] Housatonic Railroad: NH: 1836 1898 New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad: Manchester Railroad: NH: 1833 1847 Hartford and Providence Railroad: Manufacturers' Railroad ...
The original bridge in the 1860s. The current bridge is the fourth railroad span in the same location, originally known as Naugatuck Junction. The original bridge was the first railroad bridge over the Housatonic river, built by the New York and New Haven Railroad, and was a single-track wooden covered Howe truss, 1,293 feet (394 m) in length and a draw of 134 feet (41 m), built in 1848.
The Shepaug, Litchfield and Northern Railroad was a short independent railroad in western Connecticut that was chartered as the Shepaug Valley Railroad in 1868 and operated from 1872 to 1891 when it was taken over by the Housatonic Railroad. [3] In 1898, the Housatonic operation was assumed by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NH ...
Lee station is located in the village center of Lee, on the west side of Railroad Street at its junction with Elm Street, one block west of Main Street (U.S. Route 20). It is set parallel to railroad tracks running north-south to its west, which roughly parallel the Housatonic River further west. The station is a single-story wood frame ...
Early-20th-century postcard of the station. The station was built in 1886 by the Housatonic Railroad, then at the height of its operations. New Milford was also going through an economic boom, both as a center of regional tourism, and as the principal location for the processing and packing of tobacco in the Housatonic River valley.
Housatonic Railroad (HRRC) (CT, MA, NY) HRRC Idaho Northern & Pacific Railroad (ID and OR) INPR Kankakee, Beaverville and Southern Railroad (IL and IN) KBSR New York New Jersey Rail (NJ and NY) NYNJ Pend Oreille Valley Railroad (ID and WA) POVA St Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad (ME, NH, and VT) SLA Utah Railway (CO and UT) UTAH