Does Cedar Hill Yard in North Haven ,CT. still have the engine and Passenger car wash like they did many years ago ?
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Other than a few freight tracks there is nothing left in Cedar hill yard.
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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
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
There was a brushless engine high pressure wash rack outside the now-gone engine house north of the coal tower in New Haven.