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| Ansonia | Killingly | Shelton |
| Avon | Madison | Simsbury |
| Berlin | Manchester | Southbury |
| Bethel | Mansfield | Southington |
| Bloomfield | Meriden | South Windsor |
| Branford | Middletown | Stamford |
| Bridgeport | Milford | Stonington |
| Bristol | Monroe | Stratford |
| Brookfield | Montville | Torrington |
| Cheshire | Naugatuck | Trumbull |
| Danbury | New Britain | Vernon |
| Darien | New Canaan | Wallingford |
| East Hartford | New Haven | Waterbury |
| East Haven | Newington | Waterford |
| East Lyme | New London | Watertown |
| Fairfield | New Milford | West Hartford |
| Farmington | Newtown | Westport |
| Glastonbury | North Haven | Wethersfield |
| Greenwich | Norwalk | Wilton |
| Groton | Norwich | Windham |
| Guilford | Plainville | Wolcott |
| Hamden | Ridgefield |
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| Hartford | Rocky Hill |
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A half-century ago, everything in Connecticut was under the New Haven Railroad.
Today is a lot different, Amtrak, Metro-North.,
several freight-only railroads and even some abandoned lines that could be re-started.. Check out the best available map of all these with the
Connecticut CDOT rail map.
Freight Returns to Connecticut
The August 26 Merdien Record-Journal ran a story on an old bridge over Gracy
avenue in Meriden. This was part of the old "Merdien, Waterbury, & CT River
RR, which is currently owned by the
York Hill quarry on the east side of Meriden. I guess the quarry had
purchased the right of way when the line was abandoned, in case they ever
wanted to use rail service again.
Local residents want the bridge taken down, but the owner stated that with
the rising cost of fuel in shipping traprock by truck, they are looking into
the possibility of shipping by rail again. This would of course require a
lot of logging and tie replacement, and building a bridge over North Colony
street that was taken down about a year ago.
If this all happend the quarry would be a new customer stop for
Connecticut Southern RR, with
the lead to that line being right near Quarry interlocking on Amtrak.
A different bridge than just mentioned, and crosses over the Amtrak mains,
can be seen just to the north from the Amtrak crossing at North Colony
street. The lead up to this "York Hill" line would be up near Quarry
interlocking on the west side of the tracks, and would go south and then
west through the woods to clear a switch on the west side of the bridge.
The bridge mentioned in the newspaper article is to the west of the bridge
over the Amtrak main, and this lead would give them about 40-50 cars worth
of headroom past the switch to get in and out of there.
A little premature, but I wonder if the quarry would use their own switcher
to drop cars near Amtrak, or CSO-2 would have to go all the way to the east
side of Meriden to the quarry.
The rails are still visible but are now choked by some 35 years of forest
growth. Last railcars at the quarry in the were in the 1960s.
Still, it's interesting to learn that the quarry was far-sighted enough to
buy the roughly 3.5 miles of right-of-way to the Amtrak main line and is
fighting to keep it. Maybe the tide is slowing turning?
If high speed freight were available, businesses would adapt to use it.
Sears and Roebuck located in Chicago because of the rail system. Order through their catalog and they would ship
it anywhere in the country by rail. You could even buy a house from Sears and they would pack up all of the lumber,
nails, etc. into one boxcar and send it out.
Columbus is within 500 miles of half of the population of the United States. Columbus could host a giant warehouse
full of sheet metal parts for every car sold in America. That way, when someone wrecks a Mini Cooper in Hartford or a
Scion in New Haven, the parts could be on their way and delivered to the body shop within 24 hours.
Norfolk is a deep water port that will soon be handling more ships from the far east through the new Panama Canal.
Imagine warehouses in Norfolk full of furniture in every color and pattern imaginable. So if you're shopping in
Providence and really want that recliner in green plaid, they can ship it up to you from the warehouse that
serves the entire eastern half of the country.
Now a fender here or a couch there may not seem like much. But the right delivery system allows a business to grow volume.
It was no coincidence that Sears' use of the railroads in Chicago enabled it to become the world's largest store.
With reliable overnight service, a shipping container here and there can rapidly become hundreds of shipping containers
per day going to retail outlets with low inventories and just-in-time delivery to their anxious customers.
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