HHRC = Housatonic Railroad
NYNH&H = New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
"Built 1904-5; eastern pier collapsed during 1983 flooding, repaired several years later" [BridgeHunter]
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| Street View, May 2023 |
Doug Fehmel posted five photos with the comment: "I’m in Derby, CT. There is, what seems to me, an abandoned line from possibly the Housatonic RR. The bridge goes over the Housatonic River."
Steve Mewborn: It seems like they purposely made the bridge span wide enough to accommodate a double-track layout. Or is there another reason why the bridge is much wider and the tracks are shoved to the side?
Kilo Gigawatt: Steve Mewborn As built, it carried twin tracks. Double track operations ended by the early 1960's when NYNH&H completed implementing CTC signaling over the entire line between Maybrook NY and Derby Jct CT. A few sections of the 2nd trackage had been retained for passing sidings and through Danbury CT. Other than the Danbury piece and in Botsford CT, those sidings have also been pulled up.
Brian Burns: Back in the 1980s one of the spans got partially knocked off a pier during a flood. This line was part of the New Haven’s main freight route between New Haven and Maybrook, NY. The line was included in the Danbury Cluster of lines sold by Conrail, to the Housatonic, in the 1990s.
Tim Hession: Garrett Birdsall Used to carry traffic from New Haven harbor to upstate New York via the Poughkeepsie crossing.
Scott Cebelenski: Once a major freight route known as the Maybrook as someone already mentioned. Freight would travel between Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven and access the country over the Poughkeepsie bridge until a fire in 1974 put a stop to dwindling Freight at the time on the bridge. The Poughkeepsie bridge now of course a really fantastic pedestrian crossing over the Hudson.
Ned Roshkind: Sperry uses it for training of track inspection and was used for trap rock new haven to Danbury, current they go down to Norwalk and up, trying to get a clean run to Danbury but government is not helping they
Joey Tichy: I heard that they're rehabbing it and getting it ready for rail traffic once again.
Mark Holden: A developer did build a parking garage for an apartment complex too close to the tracks.
In Shelton, the rules are less important than who your friends are.
Grace Monahan: Mark Holden and it appeared that planning and zoning approved the line overlap onto rail property.
Christopher Jensen: I heard they were possibly looking at reopening it, but now it is a fight with someone. They built the parking garage for the condos apparently to close thinking it was abandoned. Be funny if they reopened it and it pissed those tenants off paying 2-3 thousand a month. Hearing train horns during g the night.
Tim Shanahan shared
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