One of my friends was talking to someone who read about a planned relocation project on the Shore Line. He said that the land was finally sold to the state of CT for I95, by old man Dumaine. Was this true? Was it part of the planned electriifcation?
I never heard of that.
However, I have heard almost the reverse of that.
I worked in the Amtrak Finance Dept. from 1987 to 2003 and when the electfication from New Haven to Boston was in the planning and design stages, one scenario that was being pushed was that the project would be incorporated into a highway bill which would fund a relocated I-95 which would be wider and otherwise improved over the 1950s era highway. The old I-95 location, specifically the eastbound side, would then become the Amtrak right-of-way.