Images of passenger service on New England's biggest railroad
Alco DL109s with New York–Boston Merchants Limited at East Haven, Conn., mid-1947.
T. J. Donahue
New Haven–New York train 365 at Darien, Conn., July 1947.
NH
I-5 4-6-4 No. 1402 with New York–Boston Bay State February 1948.
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Interior of all-coach Rail Diesel Car train Roger Williams, built February 1957.
Budd Co.
Alco PA diesels with Boston–Washington Senator at Stony Creek, Conn., March 1957.
Thomas J. McNamara
Pacific 1384 with consist of Washington, D.C.–Portland, Maine, East Wind at North Grosvenordale, Conn., June 15, 1940 (first revenue run: June 21, 1940).
L. Water
Pacific 1017 with Waterbury–Bridgeport local at Beacon Falls, Conn., on the Naugatuck Branch, December 1947.
Kent W. Cochrane
FL9 diesels with New York–Boston Murray Hill carrying leased Santa Fe RPO car at New Haven, November 1968.
W. L. Gwyer
Alco DL109 diesels with New York–Boston William Penn at Pine Orchard, Conn., February 1948.
John P. Ahrens
I-5 4-6-4 1400 with Boston–New York Yankee Clipper on the Shore Line between New London and Old Saybrook, Conn., late 1940s.
Kent W. Cochrane
Alco RS2 0504 with Pittsfield, Mass.–New York Berkshire Express at Berkshire Junction, late 1940s.
Lee Beaujon
Grand Central Terminal–bound M.U. train at Woodlawn Junction, N.Y., where NH trains entered New York Central trackage and changed from catenary to third rail power, 1952.
Frank W. Schlegel
Alco DL109 coupling to Portland, Maine–Washington, D.C, East Wind at Worcester (Mass.) Union Station after train arrived with a Boston & Maine locomotive; last car of Washington–Portland East Wind is in background. August 1949.
Philip R. Hastings
Pacific 1341 with Waterbury, Conn.–Boston train 136 departing Waterbury at 4:55 p.m., circa late 1940s.
Kent W. Cochrane
FL9s with Boston–New York (Penn Station) Hell Gate crossing Hell Gate Bridge during blizzard of Feb. 7, 1967.
Allan H. Roberts
Lightweight Talgo train John Quincy Adams, powered by Fairbanks-Morse P12-42 “Speed Merchant” diesels, one at each end; built 1957, removed from service 1958.
Fairbanks-Morse
EP-4 electric with Boston–Florida Gulf Coast Limited approaching Stamford, Conn., circa late 1930s/early 1940s.
J. D. Bennett
Two trains of Budd Rail Diesel Cars (RDCs) at Woods Hole, Mass., summer 1957.
Brian J. Cudahy
EP-5 electric 373 with Boston–Washington Colonial about to enter East River tunnel at Sunnyside Yard, Queens, New York, 1955.
James G. La Vake
Comet lightweight train (bidirectional, aluminum construction, diesel-powered, articulated), built for Boston–Providence service 1935, retired 1951.
Kent W. Cochrane
All through September 2021, Classic Trains is celebrating the verve, grit, and glamour that was the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Please enjoy this image gallery of New Haven passenger trains selected from Kalmbach Media’s David P. Morgan Library and first published in February 2020.
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