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Bond and the railroads imposed a regional standard time on New England, operated a time service based on telegraphed signals, and adopted an enforceable inspection system for railroad timekeepers. This partnership between the observatory and the railroad had several remarkable consequences. First of all, by supplying time to
The Central New England Railway (reporting mark CNE) was a railroad from Hartford, Connecticut, and Springfield, Massachusetts, west across northern Connecticut and across the Hudson River on the Poughkeepsie Bridge to Maybrook, New York.
Formation of the New England Railroad Systems: A Study of Railroad Combination in the Nineteenth Century. By George Pierce Baker, Harvard University. [The Graduate School of Business Administration of Harvard University and the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society.] (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1937.
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Dec 22, 2009 · As David McCluskey, a state representative from Connecticut, put it, “With climate change, and with the high cost of gas, and with the fact that we can no longer build ourselves out of congestion, I think people are starting to realize that rail can be a solution.”
This map from the 1932 Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States depicts the New England railroad system in 1914, including the New York, New Haven, and Hartford, the Boston and Maine, and the Maine Central railroads.
Dec 1, 2010 · The third edition of a railroad history classic, Lost Railroads of New England comprises a concise history of the rise and fall of New England's railroads and a fully annotated directory to all abandoned segments of every common carrier railroad operated in New England, updated through January 2010.
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