#New Haven Railroad

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New York City, NY April 13, 1986

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NH train, engine number 1397, engine type 4-6-2 Passenger train; 5 cars, 35 MPH. Photographed: at New Haven, Conn., August 18, 1937.

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It has been a while since I made an electric locomotive, that being the Great Northern W-1 I made back in November 2024. So I wanted to get back into doing electric builds with my own take of the New Haven EP-5 "Jet".

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Greet 1953 in Times Square!

The Day - Dec 23, 1952

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Poughkeepsie Crossing

On a foggy evening last week, Kris and I visited the waterfront park at Highland Landing, New York along the west shore of the Hudson River. With my Z7-II firmly mounted on my now antique Bogen tripod, I made a series of time exposures of the famous former New Haven Railroad Poughkeepsie Bridge. The year 2024 will mark a half century since a fire on this mightly span ended railroad service over…

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1953

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A Baltimore and Ohio Railroad freight car standing at the Harlem River Yards, 1946.

Photo: Gordon Parks via the Gordon Parks Foundation

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Vent to me about trains if ya like :3

YAY :D

So the Milwaukee Road was the First Railroad to use the use 3000 Volt DC power for any significant stretches of Electrification in 1915 (it was adopted by South African Railways in 1925, Cleveland Union Terminal (under the New York Central Railroad), the Soviet Union in 1930, the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad in 1930, Italy in 1933, Brazil in 1935, Spain and Chile in 1945)

however the Primary mainline Electrification system United States would be 11,000 Volts 25 Hertz AC which was Adopted by the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad in 1907 between Pelham and Stamford in New York (later all the way between Manhattan and New Haven CT), the Pennsylvania in 1915 between Philadelphia and Paoli (later the Entire PRR mainline between Washington DC and New York as well the entire Philadelphia Suburban Network), the Great Northern railroad in 1922 between Wenatchee and Skykomish (de-electrified in 1956), the Virginian Railroad in 1925 between Mullens and Roanoke (de-electrified in 1962), the Reading Railroad in 1928 for their Half of the Philadelphia Suburban Network, and very Briefly the Norfolk and Western had Electrified the Elkhorn grade with this system but de-electrified in 1940

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METRO-NORTH--231 at Lower Mine Road s of Brewster IB.

This train rated a New Haven-painted Genesis. 5 July 2011. © 2011 Peter Ehrlich

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NH train, engine number 3208, engine type 2-10-2 Eastbound freight train; 64 cars, 30 MPH. Photographed: near New Haven, Conn., October 16, 1930.

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Tracing Vestiges of the Old Colony Railroad on Cape Cod.

On our November visit to Cape Cod this year, Kris and I spent a day photographing beaches and tracing the route of the Old Colony Railroad line that once ran all the way to the pier at Provincetown, Massachusetts. The railroad was abandoned decades ago and most of the infrastructure was scrapped or recycled. However, in places it’s possible to see evidence of the old right-of-way, or at least…

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Rapidly becoming fascinated with South American liveries, they resemble bold midcentury US liveries but get even more elaborate and unusual and often have an X or hourglass on the front. Mexico also seems to be this way, not sure if this visual style is just popular everywhere south of the US.

(also love how Chile used very US-styled but Italian-built engines from the 60s until very recently it’s like looking at another timeline because it’s kind of familiar but also not)

(Mexican example with the X motif)

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Deadhead to Buzzards Bay by Vincent Colombo Via Flickr: Cape Cod Central's Train to Christmas Town crosses over Cohasset Narrows in Wareham with MC 2011 (ex-NH FL9M) trailing.

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