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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.
Connecticut & Southern train CS04 departs Springfield for the return trip to Hartford on a beautiful Autumn afternoon. Nov 2, 2022
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.
DC Rail 56091 'Driver Wayne Gaskell - The Godfather' storms through Hartford with empty JNAs working 6D85 Ravenhead Sidings to Chaddesden Sidings. With thanks to 'Hartford yoda' Tim Moran for his tips. 19/3/23
The lights here are improved, but the timings on them make it rather difficult. Annoyingly they dimmed as it came into sight!
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.
Maple Street, Hartford, Connecticut - USA
Guilty Kitchen & Lounge
The Human iPod Studio
House of Fadez – Barber Shop
Arriving in Hartford Yard is Connecticut Southern CSO-4 with 71 cars from CSX in West Springfield, MA.
class 5 4-6-0 45231 the sherwood forester approaches hartford with an excursion for carlisle and the cumbrian coast
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.
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.
Still not quite the end ...86609+86604 races through Hartford in the rain with 4M11 18.14 Coatbridge - Crewe Basford Hall on Monday 21 December 2020.
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.
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)
CTRail train 4407 from Springfield to New Haven has just rolled through the Hartford 'Tunnels' at HART interlocking, MP 37 on Amtrak's Springfield Line main. P40DC 6710 is ex AMTK 810 blt. Jun. 1993 and leased to ConnDOT in 2005 and then sold outright in 2008 and then overhauled and repainted by Amtrak's Beech Grove, IN shop in 2021. She is leading a set of three stainless steel Mafersa coaches built in Brazil in 1992 for VRE and sold to ConnDOT in 2004.
This historic route was chartered in 1833 as the Hartford and New Haven Railroad, and was the very first railroad built in the state of Connecticut. It opened between its namesake cities in 1839 and five years later reached Springfield. These cut and cover stone arches are 56 ft long and pass beneath Main Street and Albany Ave. / Route 44. Dating from 1871, one of the tunnels is now bereft of rails due to Amtrak's single tracking of the route in the 1990s. Just north of the tunnel old New Haven HART tower (SS214) once guarded the south throat of the Windsor Street freight yard, a portion of which remains in use as the hub of CSO operations, and additionally the Springfield Line expands to three main tracks for two miles north.
The snow covered track diverging to the left is the connection to the recently sold former Central New England Railroad's Griffins Secondary an 8.7 mile long state owned route that is the last surviving portion of the historic Central New England Railway.
Above the loco can be seen the Sacred Heart Catholic Church. The Gothic structure with yellow brick facade was completed by architect George A. Zunner, Sr. and was dedicated in 1917.
Hartford, Connecticut
Friday January 30, 2026
On a cold clear winter afternoon, Connecticut Southern Railroad train CSO-4 is pulling into the remains of the once bustling New Haven Railroad yard in Hartford with a train load interchange picked up from CSXT in West Springfield 25 miles to the north.
Leading the way is OHCR 8530 with it's nose freshly repainted into its as delivered paint scheme. It and trailing Genesee and Wyoming orange sibling 3901 are both GE B39-8Es blt. Nov. 1987 as LMX lease units (repainted 3901 was originally LMX 8511) for the Burlington Northern where they hustled intermodal trains across the high plains to the Pacific Northwest. Helping out the two GEs is NECR 2151, an EMD GP38-2 originally blt. Jan. 1973 as MP 930.
Hartford, Connecticut
Friday January 30, 2026
The West Michigan’s nightly train waits for the last of 2 reefers to be unloaded at Lineage Logistics warehouse in Hartford. Powering the lengthy train this chilly evening are 1959-built GP18 #921 and 1960-built SW1200 #1512.
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CSO-2, with a pair of New England Central GP38s, work Hartford yard on a hot summer afternoon in August.
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
For a 40 second tour through downtown Hartford this morning sitting shotgun with me driving, click here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=45kf5FhoFfQ
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.
Photographing this fine buck on an early summer morning brought back memories of the first logo that made an impression on me when I was a young child.
My father must have had a policy with The Hartford Insurance Group, because we often got unsolicited mail from them in the late 1940s. Their logo of the outline of a stag was prominent on all of their materials.
The Hartford Company is an old one, founded in 1810 in Hartford, Connecticut. When a huge fire destroyed New York’s financial district, the company’s president, Eliphalet Terry, used his own money to cover all the resulting claims. (It is rumored his wealth came from collecting $10 from everyone who laughed and commented on his first name.)
The origin of the logo is not known, but it is pretty ancient. However, the earliest record of it being used was in 1861 when it was found on an insurance policy issued to Abraham Lincoln.
Some historians suggest the image of the stag came from a well-known painting in 1851 by Sir Edwin Landseer, entitled “The Monarch of the Glen.”
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)