Connecticut Railroads: An Illustrated History

Prepared under the auspices of the Connecticut Historical Society, this evocative, lively and authoritative history covers all the railroads in Connecticut -- their achievements, troubles, wrecks, and (usually) eventual absorption into J. P. Morgan's now vanished New York, New Haven & Hartford. Packed with rare black and white photographs, maps, engravings, securities, posters, and timetables as well as the thoughtful text. Railroads covered include the Stonington, the Shore Line (and its steamers), the New York & New Haven, the Hartford & New Haven, the Norwich & Worcester, the Housatonic, the Central Vermont, the Naugatuck, the Derby & Norwalk, the New Haven & Derby, the Shepaug, the Boston & New York Air Line, the Central New England, the Hartford & Connecticut Valley, and the New York & New England Railroads. With footnotes at the end of each chapter. End papers shows state map with railroads. 317 pages with index.