Naugatuck Railroad
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A Union Pacific SD70ACe-T4 leads eastbound NS 234 across the Pigeon Creek through truss bridge at Naugatuck, on their way towards Williamson.
The peaceful part of being in the woods in Connecticut is being surrounded by all different shades of green. This waterfall is part of Spruce Brook Falls in the Naugatuck State Forest.
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Former CDOT FL9 2019 (ex-NH 2049) leans into the curved Jehricho Bridge with an excursion train on October 11, 2009. The line north of Waterbury was built for passenger train speeds, with some examples of superelevation in place to this day. Operated by Naugatuck Railroad and the Railroad Museum of New England.
Naugatuck Railroad's leased B39-8E 8537 leads the Saturday afternoon pumpkin patch train over Chase Bridge and the Naugatuck River in Waterbury, CT. The locomotive is lettered for Taconic & Berkshire Rail Technologies, ex-San Luis and Rio Grande Railroad, ex-LMX.
Crossing the Naugatuck River in Ansonia is an afternoon northbound train to Waterbury, led by Connecticut Department of Transportation P32AC-DM 231 in the New Haven Railroad heritage scheme.
NAUG 2019 leads a Mass Bay RRE special over the Naugatuck River in Waterbury, CT. 2019 is an original New Haven Railroad FL9 and was originally numbered 2049.
A Naugatuck Railroad crew is contending with quickly accumulating snow while working at Thomaston station.
Norfolk Southern's Office Car Special rolls Eastbound through the bridge at Naugatuck, in the middle of a Bellevue-Bluefield trip.
On February 16, 2016 in Ansonia, the Bridgeport to Waterbury shuttle crosses the 1903 built double span Warren through truss bridge over the Naugatuck River.
Light snow is falling as the first northbound of the morning, the 8:03am into Ansonia station, crosses the Naugatuck River. This train to Waterbury starts its journey in Bridgeport as train 3904. Its connection 6504 departs Grand Central Terminal at 5:30am.
Naugatuck Railroad's U-boat smokes it up while accelerating a 3-car excursion consist north along Waterbury Road in Thomaston, CT.
NAUG 2203 U23B (ex-CR 2798, PW 2203)
One of only a handful of Tophat C40-9's remaining leads 233 westbound through the truss at Naugatuck.
Looking through the truss bridge that spans Pigeon Creek, a pair of ES40DC's lead loaded Norfolk Southern coal train 851 as it rounds the bend into Naugatuck, West Virginia. This is also the location of the junction to the Lenore Branch, splitting off on the right on the other side of the bridge.
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NS Kenova District
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NS 851 (Coal Empties; Unknown origin/destination)
NS 7648 ES40DC Blt. 2007
NS 7611 ES40DC Blt. 2006
Westbound NS 273 crosses the through truss bridge over Pigeon Creek, passing through Naugatuck on their way towards Kenova and Portsmouth
Naugatuck Railroad's leased B39-8E 8537 leads the Saturday afternoon pumpkin patch train along the Naugatuck River at Reynolds Bridge in Thomaston.
Naugatuck Railroad General Manager Alex Formanek enjoys the view of the Naugatuck Valley from his corner office at Thomaston, CT.
Maple enjoys the view as a Naugatuck Railroad Christmas train arrives at East Litchfield, CT. Many of the children on board the train seemed to enjoy the view of Maple as well.
A post Christmas season equipment move pauses in front of the Naugatuck Railroad station at Thomaston, CT.
It’s a snowy Saturday afternoon in Naugatuck, as Metro-North train 6937 heads south towards Bridgeport. I originally hoped to shoot the northbound with the GP40 leading but it wasn’t snowing at the time, so I settled for a cab car shot instead. One day these Bombardier Shoreliner coaches will be phased out for newer cab cars.
Taking a photo of someone taking a selfie is what I refer to as "The Justin" move. I don't have a photojournalism degree so I can only assume that doing this "tells a story" or something like that. Because I'm a cheap imitator, I only shot this one frame with my old Nikon F3. The real Justin would have ripped off 37 frames in a burst that sounded like incoming missiles and then later poured over each frame to find the one where the sweat on the person's brow would have been perfectly reflecting the sunlight and his toes facing a pleasing direction. I'll have to settle for my one frame and hope that it accurately, "tells a story" of some dude at the Naugatuck Railroad's fathers day car show enjoying the presence of FL9 2019.
Naugatuck Railroad conductor Bryan Dablain and engineer Hal Reiser make a move at the north end of Waterville siding on a chilly winter day.
On Sunday, April 18, 2021, a special geometry train, combined with Metro-North equipment and Department of Transportation DOTX 221 Office of Safety car, operated on the Waterbury Branch. On its way south back to Stamford, the train crosses the Naugatuck River in Ansonia. DOTX 221 was built in 1954 by Pullman Standard for Canadian National as sleeper-lounge “Cape Brule” 1083. The passenger car is equipped with an automated track inspection program that collects various data of the rails for the Department of Transportation and Federal Railroad Administration.
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The Waterbury to Milford Line taken in a section between Naugatuck and Beacon Falls. Sorry, no train came by while I was there.
Train 6930 departs Ansonia with a solid Metro-North consist. Visible on the right are the Naugatuck River flood walls, built by the US Army Corps of Engineers, after the devastating flood of 1955. In the background on the left near the rear two passenger cars is Ansonia's historic 1870 opera house. Local retail businesses occupy the first floor.
The northbound Torrington Twilight Express rolls past Blue Seal Feeds in Litchfield, CT on a clear summer evening. The power this day is recently restored Norfolk & Western GP9 686. A little confusing for a New England Railroad Museum...
The snow is coming down on the morning of February 6, 2025, as a Metro-North train from Bridgeport to Waterbury crosses the Naugatuck River Bridge in Ansonia, CT.
I absolutely LOVE the rocks in this. I so swore the rocks looked like lava but I thought, "Well, that can't be because there are no volcanos in CT!"
Then I researched online and I'll be, CT does have magma also known as igneous basalt.
The Naugatuck River is 40 miles long. It is the longest river in Connecticut and empties into the Housatonic River. It once was a main power source for the area.
"The Naugatuck River is a 40.2-mile-long (64.7 km)[3] river in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Its waters carve out the Naugatuck River Valley in the western reaches of the state, flowing generally due south and eventually emptying into the Housatonic River at Derby, Connecticut and thence 11 miles (18 km) to Long Island Sound. The Plume and Atwood Dam in Thomaston, completed in 1960 following the Great Flood of 1955, creates a reservoir on the river and is the last barrier to salmon and trout migrating up from the sea.[5]...
HISTORY
Various Algonquian bands, often included in the Wappinger tribe, originally inhabited the Naugatuck River Valley. In fact, the name "Naugatuck" is derived from an Algonquian term meaning "lone tree by the fishing place". One early 19th century [sic]author explained that this name originally referred to a specific tree along the river in the area of modern-day Beacon Falls,[6] but came to be applied broadly to the entire river over time.[2][7] The valley was later settled in the 17th century by English colonists. Given its rocky soil, which was not good for farming, and the high potential for water power, the Naugatuck Valley became an industrialized area in the 19th century. It has been associated with the brass and copper industries."
source-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naugatuck_River
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With Hyco loads from Island Creek at Ragland, J16 passes through Naugatuck on the Lenore Branch, about to round the east leg of the wye onto the mainline towards Williamson with the Pennsy Heritage leading.
Metro-North train 1956 crosses the Naugatuck River Bridge in Ansonia, CT. Locomotive engineer Dave Horree gives a friendly from the conductor's seat, as he mentors a locomotive engineer in training.
New Haven P32AC-DM 231 crosses the Naugatuck River Bridge in Ansonia with a train destined for Waterbury.