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The new Home Depot warehouse/rail sidings in South Windsor are active and they are receiving product. Rail deliveries to the Bloomfield warehouse have ceased. I don't believe there is any more activity at this time on the Griffin Line which runs between Hartford and Windsor. That Home Depot warehous...

I understand there is no more traffic on the line with the advent of the new Home Depot warehouse in South Windsor. Too bad. Recently, they moved an engine that had been at the end of the Griffin Line over to East Windsor to his other RR operation.

Mr rt wrote: ↑Fri Jan 29, 2021 11:38 am Noticed some work in Portland at Route 66 ... trap rock, looks like they're replacing RxR tracks with a road ?

20 plus years of trying for new business on both those lines and nothing happening. Doesn't look like anything will return to the CSO line to Manchester either. Do you know first hand how much “ trying “ these has actually been in developing new businesses on either line? Other than hearing about t...

CSO will serve the new Home Depot Warehouse. The CNZR portion of that line does not begin until further to the north east in East Windsor, CT. As for what happens with the Home depot building in Bloomfield, that is anyone's guess. I can't see both staying open long term in such close proximity. - bw...

I believe this is the warehouse in question on the east side of Route 66. I have drawn a hypothetical red line of where the spur may have been. If anyone knows for sure please let us know!

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I see it now... interesting wonder if it ever was actually in use?

What other road did it Cross, Route 68?

I think this is the spur your referring to

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To the best of my knowledge it was a Smurfit a Stone facility. Receiving inbound loads of paper rolls to create cardboard boxes.

Here is a link to the brochure for the facility. It does promote an “active rail spur”...

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Not sure what is viable on rail these days for groceries, other than maybe produce in reefers out of the northwest. Or possibly canned goods? On the brochure advertising the logistics center they had a photo of the rail spur.

Here are some photos from a derailment last year.

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Yes and Yes. Well I know they had an engine on the ground a couple weeks ago. Not sure if the surfacing work is directly related to that or not. But they are doing a bunch of work in the yard.

I’m interested in knowing more about the history of the airline route in Portland, CT (New Haven RR). Based on aerial imagery from 1934, It appears there was a spur that departed the main line east of the Connecticut River Swingbridge, heading geographically north and west back towards the river an...