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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 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 ...
Railroad AAR rep. mark Ashland Railway: ASRY Camp Chase Railway: CAMY Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad: CVSR Napoleon, Defiance & Western Railroad: ND&W Ohio Central Railroad: OHCR Ohio Terminal Railway: OHIO Ohio Valley Railroad: OVR, OVRX Toledo Lake Erie & Western: TLEW Cincinnati East Terminal Railway: CET
The station building was built in the 1870s to serve passengers on the Housatonic Railroad. The depot was anticipated to be completed and operating by August 1, 1872. [3] However, by April 1873 only the foundation and a portion of the framework was completed. [4] Once completed, the depot was described as "one of the finest" on the Housatonic ...
Housatonic Railroad, a railroad that operated independently 1836–1892, as a subsidiary 1892–1970s, and a separate company started in 1983 in western Connecticut SS Georgia (1890) , a German passenger liner seized by the United States during World War I, renamed Housatonic , and sunk by a German submarine
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.