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Amtrak Vermonter train 57 exits the tunnel under Albany Ave in Hartford with Heritage Paint P42 145 as the leader.
Pan Am Railways PLED is seen making a rare daylight run heading north up track 2 at Hart on Amtrak's Springfield Line in Hartford, CT.
Pan Am EDPL pops out of the tunnel under Albany Avenue in Hartford. The train had just had a rolling meet with Amtrak 56 to the north of here before it got its turn to pass down the single track stretch, one of two such areas left on this line. Due to construction here in Hartford and maintenance elsewhere on the line most of the passenger trains were suspended which opened a big window of time for the normally overnight EDPL/PLED to appear in midday for a few weeks.
These lovely old Grade II-listed cottages are right next door to the early 12th century All Saints Church at Hartford, on the east side of Huntingdon. They overlook a green which runs alongside the River Great Ouse.
This will be my last posting for a week as I am heading off down to my holiday home in Cornwall with everything that has been stored for the winter. It'll make a nice break as well.
Connecticut Southern CSO-4 crosses its namesake river between Enfield and Windsor Locks on the afternoon of Friday, March 3, 2023. The freight is headed to Hartford after picking up 32 cars from CSX in West Springfield. Sandwiching the two CSOR units is Providence & Worcester B40-8 4004, which has been on the property since January.
class 5 4-6-0 45231 the sherwood forester approaches hartford with an excursion for carlisle and the cumbrian coast
duchess pacific 46233 duchess of sutherland passes hartford on the west coast mainline with a northbound excursion for blackpool
These lovely old Grade II-listed cottages are right next door to the early 12th century All Saints Church at Hartford, on the east side of Huntingdon. They overlook a green which runs alongside the River Great Ouse.
Amtrak 405, the first Hartford Line train of the day, makes its departure from Springfield Union Station en route to New Haven. A Metroliner cab car leads the way for the trip south.
All that's currently left of what was a stunning mill building in Oldham. Built 1907 by the Hartford Mill (Oldham) Co Ltd. Extended 1920 and 1924. Closed 1959 and used by Littlewoods as a mail order warehouse until 1992.
Architect was F W Dixon, there were 120,000 spindles and power was provided by a very impressive 1500 hp Urmson & Thompson engine.
After years of neglect Oldham Council have managed to get it de-listed by English Heritage and the demolition team moved in in less that a week. Another bit of local history lost for ever.
Connecticut Southern local CSO-3 heads up the South Windsor Branch in East Hartford with trusty NECR 3855 reflecting in a puddle from rain the previous night.
USS Hartford photographed in 1905. My colorization of an image in the Library of Congress archive.
"USS Hartford, a sloop-of-war, steamer, was the first ship of the United States Navy named for Hartford, the capital of Connecticut. Hartford served in several prominent campaigns in the American Civil War as the flagship of David G. Farragut, most notably the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864. She survived until 1956, when she sank awaiting restoration at Norfolk, Virginia."
(Wikipedia)
After a pathing stop at Hartford Jn 45596"Bahamas" accelerates through Hartford in fine style with 1Z94 17.26 Blackpool North - Birmingham New St "Blackpool Illuminations Express" Saturday 16 November 2024. Note one or two onlookers removed in PS.
Connecticut Southern Railroad train CSO-3 is seen shoving into the south end of their former New Haven Railroad Hartford Yard off the Valley Line. They have just come back from working Murphy Road Recycling south of downtown on the Valley Line, and after dropping off their loaded waste gons they will gather up their loaded lumber cars for Home Depot and head across the Connecticut River to East Hartford and the East Windsor Industrial. In the foreground is the diamond crossing of the Manchester Secondary, the former Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Secondary mainline that headed east to the Rhode Island capital off to the right. Today this forms the south leg of the wye and it connects to Amtrak's Springfield Line at HART interlocking off to the left.
Providence and Worcester 2215 a rather unique locomotive known a GE B23-7R 'Super-7' that was originally built as a U23B in Jun. 1972 as Western Pacific 2263. It was heavily rebuilt in Mar. 1989 at Erie as a demonstrator unit for GE's new Super-7 rebuild line. While only one US road (the Mongahela ordered 11) purchased them they were much more successful in Mexico with over 200 6-axle variants going south of the border along with a few built for Canada's Roberval and Saguenay. 2215 seen here was actually the first unit so rebuilt and was numbered GECX 2000 which she wore until being sold to the Providence and Worcester in 1998 along with sister demonstrator 2002. Transferred over to the to sister G&W road Connecticut Southern sometime after the big holding company acquired the PW in 2016, she has been a regular operating in central Connecticut, but now her days are numbered due to being on the list to be retired thanks to the Genesee and Wyoming / EPA consent decree announced earlier in the year.
Hartford, Connecticut
Friday April 21, 2023
Another wider take on this shop scene.
Having wrapped up their day the power off Connecticut Southern Railroad local CSO-4 has tied up for the day outside the north end of their small shop and headquarters building. OHCR 8530 is a GE B39-8Es built in Dec. 1987 as an LMX lease units for service on the Burlington Northern and still wears its original number. At left sits Providence and Worcester 4004 (GE B40-8 blt. Jun. 1988 as NYSW 4002) that has been transferred over here to their sister road for some reason.
The Genesee and Wyoming owned Connecticut Southern is a small but busy shortline that dates from 1996 when then Rail America acquired the freight rights on Amtrak's line and the so called Hartford cluster from Conrail. This engine house located in the former New Haven Railroad yard is only about a decade old as described here:
www.hartfordbusiness.com/article/cso-opens-hartford-site-...
Ironically there was a similarly sized locomotive shop located here in nearly the same location but it was demolished by Conrail prior to the sale. To see a photo of that former shop check out this:
conrailphotos.thecrhs.org/photos/engine-house-at-hartford...
Hartford, Connecticut
Friday April 21, 2023
With one week left till it's independence as a railroad would cease to exist, the opportunity for one final chase of a Kansas City Southern freight up the former Gateway Western presented itself. With sun starting to dip in the western sky, and after completing it's work setting out bad order cars in KCS's East St. Louis yard, KCS train M259 (formerly MVNKC) leaves the St. Louis metroplex behind as it heads north up the joint trackage of the Union Pacific Springfield Subdivision through Hartford Illinois. The train will stay on Union Pacific trackage till it jumps onto KCS home rails at Godfrey for the run up to Roodhouse.
Having wrapped up their day the power off Connecticut Southern Railroad local CSO-4 has tied up for the day outside the north end of their small shop and headquarters building. OHCR 8530 is a GE B39-8Es built in Dec. 1987 as an LMX lease units for service on the Burlington Northern and still wears its original number.
The Genesee and Wyoming owned Connecticut Southern is a small but busy shortline that dates from 1996 when then Rail America acquired the freight rights on Amtrak's line and the so called Hartford cluster from Conrail. This engine house located in the former New Haven Railroad yard is only about a decade old as described here:
www.hartfordbusiness.com/article/cso-opens-hartford-site-...
Ironically there was a similarly sized locomotive shop located here in nearly the same location but it was demolished by Conrail prior to the sale. To see a photo of that former shop check out this:
conrailphotos.thecrhs.org/photos/engine-house-at-hartford...
This long telephoto view pulls in the brick smoke stack and buildings of the old factory and warehouse on Windsor Street that dates from 1916 as the National Iron Works with additions made by later property owners in 1925 and 1940.
Hartford, Connecticut
Friday April 21, 2023