Trains of Southern Connecticut

Until the late sixties, the New Haven Railroad was the dominant force in Southern Connecticut. Then things began to diversify when Penn Central, Amtrak and then Conrail took charge. After the Penn Central Railroad went bankrupt, the area got a little more colorful yet as Connecticut DOT added commuter service east of New Haven. PC and Conrail had operated freight on the Air Line to Middletown and the Reed’s Gap quarry. In the Mid-1990s that operation was taken over by the Providence and Worcester, introducing another name to area rails. This program covers Amtrak and CDOT trains on the shoreline from Mill River interlocking in New Haven to New London and Stonington and looks at the freight operation on the Airline under Conrail and P&W.