Discussion relating to the NH and its subsidiaries (NYW&B, Union Freight Railroad, Connecticut Company, steamship lines, etc.). up until its 1969 inclusion into the Penn Central merger. This forum is also for the discussion of efforts to preserve former New Haven equipment, artifacts and its history. You may also wish to visit www.nhrhta.org for more information.
Discussion relating to the NH and its subsidiaries (NYW&B, Union Freight Railroad, Connecticut Company, steamship lines, etc.). up until its 1969 inclusion into the Penn Central merger. This forum is also for the discussion of efforts to preserve former New Haven equipment, artifacts and its history. You may also wish to visit www.nhrhta.org for more information.
I don't ever remember an engine wash at Cedar Hill. If engines were washed there it was by the old fashioned method with
brushes by hand. There were not normally any passenger cars in this yard except for ones on their way to the scrap heap or
the jitney from New Haven Station three times a day at shift change.
They had a small car wash machine in New Haven but Stamford, Springfield and Boston were the main places where
passenger cars were washed.
Noel Weaver