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Connecticut Railroads an Illustrated History 150 years of railroad history w/DJ
Connecticut Railroads an Illustrated History 150 years of railroad history by Turner & Jacobus.
Hard cover with dust jacket
317 pages 540 illustrations Indexed
Copyright 1986
Table of Contents
A Tribute to Melancthon W. Jacobus Acknowledgements
Foreword by Oliver Jensen
Author's Introduction
Chapter One: Stonington and the Shore Line Route The great days of the Stonington Railroad and its palatial line of steamships, including the coming of the Shore Line rail route and the bridging of the rivers
Chapter Two: Uniting Four CitiesI7
Empire in the making: the story of the New York & New Haven and the Hartford & New Haven railroads
Chapter Three: The Norwich Line35
Water and iron: the story of the Norwich & Worcester and of its sea route to New York City
Chapter Four: Two Interior Routes 47
The Housatonic line and the canal that became a railroad
Chapter Five: Fever in New London67
How a Canadian empire reached Long Island Sound at the Whaling City
Chapter Six: Naugatuck's Pride87
The making of an industrial main line, Bridgeport to Winsted along the "Naugy"
Chapter Seven: A Trio of Short Lines99
Dreamers and doers on the Danbury & Norwalk, Shepaug, and New Haven & Derby lines
Chapter Eight: The Air Line Saga115
Iron ribbons and political antics from New Haven to Willimantic; the route the crow flies depends on what the crow flies over.
Chapter Nine: Remembering the Central New England129
From the Capital City to the Berkshire Hills aboard the vanished Central New England-"The Poughkeepsie Bridge Route"
Chapter Ten: Down the Valley! 155
The scenic rail route from Hartford to Saybrook and Fenwick
Chapter Eleven: Forgotten Leviathan17 I
Heyday of the New York & New England in Connecticut, including the famed "White Train" and the great East Thompson Wreck
Chapter Twelve: A Yankee Empire 203
How the prosperous New York, New Haven & Hartford captured almost all the rails and steamboats of southern New England, and was, in turn, taken captive by the high-flying team of J.P. Morgan and Charles S. Mellen
Chapter Thirteen: Halcyon Days on the New Haven 233
Recovering slowly from the Morgan era, the New Haven in the days between the two great wars was a model of organization, management, and service to passengers: a special picture album.
Chapter Fourteen: Decline and Fall 261
Beset like the Roman Empire from within and without, the New Haven in 1948, barely solvent again, fell victim to state-supported highways and out-of-state financial manipulation.
Chapter Fifteen: Survivors281
Nine separate companies, big and little, today provide Connecticut about half the rail service it had in 1852. But generally you can't get there from here any more.
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Appendix Bibliography Index
Addendum
The echoing whistle down the valley, the flickering fire and plume of smoke, the busy depot with its crowds getting off the local or aboard the great de luxe express -all this was part of almost every Connecticut city and town eighty years and more ago. It comes to life in this evocative, lively, yet authoritative history, which traces the complete story of all the railroads in the state, their achievements, troubles, wrecks, and (usually) absorption into J.P. Morgan's imperial monopoly, the vanished New York, New Haven & Hartford. Rare photographs, maps, engravings, securities, posters, timetables, and a thoughtful text make this a book to savor and enjoy.
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