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New Haven Color Pictorial Volume 3 by David R Sweetland
New Haven Color pictorial Vol 3 by David R Sweetland
Hard Cover
128 pages
Copyright 2006
CONTENTS
Introduction - New Haven Cab Units 4
Barrington & Warren, Rhode Island 12
Narragansett Park, Rhode Island 13
East Side Tunnel 14
Pawtucket, Rhode Island 15
Valley Falls, Rhode Island 16
Lonsdale, Rhode Island 17
Berkeley, Rhode Island 18
Ashton, Rhode Island 19
Albion, Rhode Island20
Manville, Rhode Island 21
Woonsocket, Rhode Island 22
Blackstone, Massachusetts 24
Millbury, Massachusetts 27
Worcester, Massachusetts 28
Boston Switch 37
Hebronville, Massachusetts 39
Attleboro, Massachusetts 44
Mansfield, Massachusetts 47
Foxboro, Massachusetts 48
Sharon, Massachusetts 49
Canton Jct. & Canton, Massachusetts 50
Route 128 54
Readville, Massachusetts 57
West Roxbury, Massachusetts 60
Forest Hills, Massachusetts 61
Boston - Back Bay & Franklin 62
Milford, Massachusetts 63
Medfield Jct., Massachusetts 64
Medway, Massachusetts 65
Newton Upper Falls & Dedham66
Pondville & Framingham, Massachusetts 67
Fitchburg, Massachusetts 72
Clinton & Marlboro, Massachusetts73
Lowell, Massachusetts74
South Station - Boston, Massachusetts 75
Dover Street 85
South Boston, Massachusetts 94
Union Freight 97
Milton, Massachusetts 98
Quincy, Massachusetts 99
East Braintree, Massachusetts 101
Scituate & Greenbush, Massachusetts ...102
Whitman & Kingston, Massachusetts 103
Plymouth & Brocton, Massachusetts 104
Bridgewater, Middleboro & Taunton 105
Whittenton Jct. 107
North Dartmouth & Fall River, Mass109
Tiverton, Rhode Island 112
Portsmouth & Newport 113
New Bedford, Massachusetts 114
Fairhaven, Massachusetts 118
Tremont, Massachusetts 119
Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts 120
North Falmouth & Falmouth, Mass. 124
Woods Hole, Massachusetts 125
Cape Cod Canal 127
Provincetown, Massachusetts 128
INTRODUCTION
As the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad began its recovery from the Great Depression, the road had a group of fifty 1916-built 4-6-2 Pacific type steam locomotives to handle most of the Shore Line trains between New Haven and Boston. In 1934, to modernize its passenger car fleet, the road ordered fifty new lightweight coaches from Pullman-Standard for delivery during 1934 and 1935. Twenty more coaches followed in 1936 and thirty in 1937. At that time, the New Haven asked the locomotive builders for proposals on ten streamlined 4-6-4 Hudson type engines to power these Shore Line runs. Baldwin received the order and built the ten 4-6-4's in 1937. As it turned out, these locomotives would become the only modern steam passenger power owned by the New Haven. Shore Line passenger car modernization continued in 1937 with five lightweight grill cars of the same Pullman-Standard design. General Electric shipped six streamlined electric locomotives from Erie, Pennsylvania for operation in both 11,000-volt AC and 600-volt DC electrified territory in 1938. In October 1938, the last twenty lightweight coaches were built by Pullman-Standard, giving the New Haven a sizeable fleet of 205 lightweight cars, but no additional orders were placed for steam motive power. As freight and passenger traffic levels increased during 1940 and 1941, the New Haven explored its options for new motive power, but this time diesel locomotives for the other-than-electrified territory.
CLASS DER-1
As the war clouds in Europe darkened, the New Haven Railroad went back to its long time relationship with Alco for diesel cab units. Between 1938 and 1940, the NH had obtained twenty end-cab switchers with 600hp model 531 and 660hp model 538 diesel engines. These slow speed (700-740 RPM) inline 6-cylinder engines had performed well for the NH in switching service. Using the turbocharged version of this model 539 diesel engine, Alco had placed two of them in a car-body riding on AlA trucks. Rock Island, AT&SF, Southern Ry., GM&O, C&NW and the Milwaukee Road had purchased limited quantities of these units for passenger service during 1940 and 1941. For the level Shore Line route, the Alco DL-109 looked like an attractive dual service unit for both freight and passenger service. Stepping into the road diesel locomotive era, the New Haven ordered ten of these units in 1941, Alco's largest DL-109 order so far. Delivered at the start of World War II into early 1942, Nos. 0700-0709 joined the New Haven roster as class DER-1 units painted Pullman Green with Dulux Gold striping. After a few modifications (especially the radiator cooling fan shutters), the 0700's started making up to two and a half round trips a day between New Haven and Boston. It would turn out to be the largest fleet of Alco DL-109 units in the US, and the units became great dual service units for the Shore Line.
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