Official Naugatuck Railroad thread (NAUG/RMNE)

[tj48]

Found this on rrpicturearchives.net
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=4341827" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Jeff Smith]

Out of Hopewell Junction... interesting: http://www.hoovers.com/company-informat ... a1009.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[J.D. Lang]

This was posted on RR Picture Archives this morning:

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/archiv ... ?id=115627" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The author is Ted Krug. He has other postings on the Highland also. Thanks Mr. Krug!

John L.

[Otto Vondrak]

Setting the train order mast at Thomaston Station.

Nice to see the train order signal going in at Thomaston!

-otto-

[H.F.Malone]

Stay tuned. It's going to be a busy year at the Naugy.

[newpylong]

What do they need a train order signal for?

[CannaScrews]

The Thomaston Station had one in the same location. Just restoring the look. It will add colour to the joint

It's a museum thing.

[H.F.Malone]

Thomaston Station, July 23, 1931, looking southwest. Corner of freight house at left, roof of brick octagonal water tank is south of station.

Thomaston, July 23, 1931, track side of station.jpg

[newpylong]

That makes more sense thanks. I was thinking it had a utilitarian purpose which seemed weird to me.

[Otto Vondrak]

What do they need a train order signal for?

Because it's a museum? And putting the signal back helps restore the original look? Or was that too obvious?

I think people forget that the Naugatuck Railroad is an arm of the Railroad Museum of New England, and that establishing a museum is actually one of their goals.

[bwparker1]

There should be some freight activity for the new Transfer Station this month.

[CannaScrews]

I think people forget that the Naugatuck Railroad is an arm of the Railroad Museum of New England, and that establishing a museum is actually one of their goals.

Actually, the railroad is a "necessary evil" to establishing a museum. It would've been much easier to establish a static museum like the RR Museum of PA or Cal State.

You divert major resources to two strips of steel in the ground which can otherwise be used in restoration and exhibits.

[gokeefe]

What do they need a train order signal for?

Because it's a museum? And putting the signal back helps restore the original look? Or was that too obvious?

I think people forget that the Naugatuck Railroad is an arm of the Railroad Museum of New England, and that establishing a museum is actually one of their goals.

I was just waiting for someone to say that the station would now be manned by a freight agent and that the telegraph wires would be going up soon.

[CannaScrews]

The station, to my knowledge, never had a freight agent. The freight agent was across the tracks in the freight house, which succumbed to a snowfall in 1992 or 93, or 94. I forgot.
In the grand scheme of things, the plan is to put the freight track back & reconstruct a structure at the same location as the freight house.

Personally, I'd like to extend the freight track south into the Rt 8 embankment. Some of the ties are still there.

[H.F.Malone]

After the last NH RR passenger train came off, in Dec 1958, there was a freight agent assigned to Thomaston, working out of a small office in the old passenger station until the late 1960s. The job was half a day at Thomaston, and half a day at Naugatuck. I doubt the freight house office was useable by that time. Noel Weaver, do you know?