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- Subject: Another tower gone(NH Attleboro) & CT Developments
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 14:09:04 GMT
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- The former New Haven Railroad tower at Attleboro closed last Wednesday
- night. It had been scheduled to close last summer, but for some reason
- was given a stay of execution. The actual cutover to CTEC control was made
- about two weeks earlier (Railpace says 4 January), but operators continued
- to be stationed at Attleboro in case of malfunction until the 20th. Third
- trick that night locked up the building for good. I suspect it will soon
- be bulldozed into oblivion.
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- Another item of interest that I saw in the latest Railpace and that nobody
- has yet mentioned here. The Housatonic Railroad officially took over the
- Conrail Danbury Subdivision, etc., on 30 December. A subsidiary whose name
- I forget was created for the purpose. Housatonic acquired the lines from
- Derby Junction through Danbury to Beacon and from Danbury to New Milford.
- According to Railpace, it is their plan to make this their major interchange,
- through Beacon and Danbury to New Milford and Canaan. Guess they'll be
- doing some track work soon. They also reportedly acquired freight operating
- rights on the Metro North line from White Plains through Brewster to Dover
- Plains, and what's left of the "Upper Harlem" north of Dover Plains to Wassaic.
- No mention was made in the article of freight operating rights over MNCR
- between Danbury and Norwalk, so I assume that's still Conrail (that is if
- there's any business). Also no mention of exactly where and with whom (CR,
- P&W and/or B&M) the new railroad will interchange in the vicinity of Derby Jct.
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- Len Bachelder Archives Committee, Boston and Maine RR Historical Society
- MITRE Corp. Secretary, Massachusetts Bay Railroad Enthusiasts
- Bedford MA 01730 Member, 470 Railroad Club
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- "Amazing love, how can it be that Thou, my God, should'st die for me!"
- - Charles Wesley
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