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Wrong place ? Some help on ID of some Bridgeport photos 1970 era ? I believe the Maine Central car was on that loop out to Sikorsky on the harbor. They are from old damaged slides.

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Great slides from Bridgeport area, but with MTA trucks and fire engine models atleast mid 1980s, not 1970. The PW trains are usually like 90 cars heading to Long Island from Cedar Hill. The Remington plant has begun to be knocked down those old boxcars in front are gone. When they rebuilt TRK 5 in West Haven area metro north paid to have Star Beverage's cars rerouted to Springfield, Mass a few years back until the track work was completed. That's a unique situation with CSX deciding to hang onto the New Haven area with the cars forwarded by CSOR from the north.

freightguy wrote:Great slides from Bridgeport area, but with MTA trucks and fire engine models atleast mid 1980s, not 1970. The PW trains are usually like 90 cars heading to Long Island from Cedar Hill. The Remington plant has begun to be knocked down those old boxcars in front are gone. When they rebuilt TRK 5 in West Haven area metro north paid to have Star Beverage's cars rerouted to Springfield, Mass a few years back until the track work was completed. That's a unique situation with CSX deciding to hang onto the New Haven area with the cars forwarded by CSOR from the north.

Probably a combo of:

1) Cedar Hill itself still making them enough money to keep the jobs going despite the near complete eradication of on-line business.

2) Competitive blocker from allowing Cedar Hill to fall into the wrong hands. Pan Am Southern does have full rights to interchange with them in New Haven, though it's never done in-practice. CSX may be reluctant to pawn off the yard and New Haven Line rights to P&W or CSOR thinking that 100% of the biz will come to/from their doorstep in the Bronx...then find Norfolk Southern vulturing loads up the Springfield Line. I doubt there's a way to gerrymander the paper barriers airtight enough to protect that flank, since there are interchange rights there PAS can use and that'll be true of any future inheritors of CSX's rights.

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freightguy wrote:Great slides from Bridgeport area, but with MTA trucks and fire engine models atleast mid 1980s, not 1970. The PW trains are usually like 90 cars heading to Long Island from Cedar Hill. The Remington plant has begun to be knocked down those old boxcars in front are gone. When they rebuilt TRK 5 in West Haven area metro north paid to have Star Beverage's cars rerouted to Springfield, Mass a few years back until the track work was completed. That's a unique situation with CSX deciding to hang onto the New Haven area with the cars forwarded by CSOR from the north.

Probably a combo of:

1) Cedar Hill itself still making them enough money to keep the jobs going despite the near complete eradication of on-line business.

2) Competitive blocker from allowing Cedar Hill to fall into the wrong hands. Pan Am Southern does have full rights to interchange with them in New Haven, though it's never done in-practice. CSX may be reluctant to pawn off the yard and New Haven Line rights to P&W or CSOR thinking that 100% of the biz will come to/from their doorstep in the Bronx...then find Norfolk Southern vulturing loads up the Springfield Line. I doubt there's a way to gerrymander the paper barriers airtight enough to protect that flank, since there are interchange rights there PAS can use and that'll be true of any future inheritors of CSX's rights.

They have the SIMS Metal Management Scrap business, I bet that is fairly lucrative.

I grew up next to the NYNH&H 4 track main line in Riverside, CT. The railroad used to get 50% of its revenue from freight, 50% passenger and what a lot of freight it was! Always loved to count boxcars going both ways to and from the machine capital of the world, Bridgeport, the "Lock City," Stamford, Brass City, Waterbury, etc.,etc. Apparently, MN, Amtrak and ShoreLine haul more passengers than ever before but it is hard to imagine just how much those 4 tracks used to handle all without computers, etc. The transformation of the NE from the industrial dynamo it was to a suburban sprawl is hard to comprehend at age 75. Maybe, it is better now, I don't know.