Ridgefielder wrote:Kilgore Trout wrote:The Hartford & Harlem comes to mind, what else was there?
-Fairfield County Railroad (chartered as a horse railroad in the 1830's to connect Danbury to Westport)
-Stamford & Danbury (extension of the New Canaan Branch to Danbury via Ridgefield)
-Westchester Northern (extension of the NYW&B from White Plains to Danbury via Ridgefield)
-Various plans to build a route parallel to the Shore Line but inland- essentially following the later route of the Merritt Parkway. Think one was floated by the interests that built the Boston & New York Air-Line.
Found a map in the back of "Connecticut Railroads", by Greg Turner and Melancthon Jacobus showing "abortive railroads" in CT. Looks like there were 8 separate plans to parallel the Shore Line through Fairfield County. And in addition to the lines I mentioned above, there were also
-the Saugatuck Valley, Westport to Newtown
-the Hudson Suspension Bridge & New England, Peekskill NY to Danbury
-the New England & Erie, Brewster to Derby via Bethel and Newtown, with a branch from Newtown to Ridgefield via Easton and Redding.