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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 leased by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in 1892, which abandoned several portions from 1940 onwards. Control passed to Penn Central at the end of 1968, followed by Conrail in 1976; the latter abandoned much of the Housatonic Railroad main line and sold the northern portion to the Boston and Maine ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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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
Housatonic is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Great Barrington in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,109 at the 2010 census. [2] It was named after the Housatonic River. [3]