by FLRailFan1
I heard a few years (or maybe 10-12 years ago) that the line was owned by Sanzo/York Hill Quarries. Around that time, they were thinking about shipping by rail....is the line still there?
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FLRailFan1 wrote:I heard a few years (or maybe 10-12 years ago) that the line was owned by Sanzo/York Hill Quarries. Around that time, they were thinking about shipping by rail....is the line still there?Very, very overgrown but still there. The trestles over the Springfield Line are due to be torn down soon during the Amtrak construction. One of them burned some years back and is structurally unsafe.
F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:http://www.nhhsrail.com/pdfs/ea/appendix_03.pdfLooking at Google Satellite, looks like the ROW curves south-west toward what is now marked as Midstate Medical Center (on Kensington Ave.) - could that have been a big industrial site at one time? Oddly, Center Street itself runs, parallel to the Springfield line , a little to the East, and doesn't seem to cross the track segment in question.
p. 7 on the NHHS bridge inventory and action plan. The overhead bridge at MP 19.9 to be removed. Note though that the CT Rail Map (http://www.ct.gov/dot/lib/dot/documents ... r36x24.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) designates that stretch of ROW on the west side of the Springfield Line as the "Center Street Branch", separate from the Quarry branch on the easterly side. I don't know what the difference is. Did the quarry ever use that for anything, or was there once a different customer down there?
Actually, I didn't see any remaining evidence that the Quarry Spur or the Center St. Spur (which seem to have been one long route) were tied into the Springfield branch.It was one route in the sense that it was the remnant of the middle of the very marginal Waterbury, Meriden & Cromwell RR, later a New Haven branch which connected those cities. The east end of that line also survived into the Penn Central era as the Dublin Street branch to the brass mills on the east side of Waterbury. Otherwise it was abandoned early.
Sir Ray wrote:F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:http://www.nhhsrail.com/pdfs/ea/appendix_03.pdfLooking at Google Satellite, looks like the ROW curves south-west toward what is now marked as Midstate Medical Center (on Kensington Ave.) - could that have been a big industrial site at one time? Oddly, Center Street itself runs, parallel to the Springfield line , a little to the East, and doesn't seem to cross the track segment in question.
p. 7 on the NHHS bridge inventory and action plan. The overhead bridge at MP 19.9 to be removed. Note though that the CT Rail Map (http://www.ct.gov/dot/lib/dot/documents ... r36x24.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) designates that stretch of ROW on the west side of the Springfield Line as the "Center Street Branch", separate from the Quarry branch on the easterly side. I don't know what the difference is. Did the quarry ever use that for anything, or was there once a different customer down there?
Actually, I didn't see any remaining evidence that the Quarry Spur or the Center St. Spur (which seem to have been one long route) were tied into the Springfield branch.
I also don't envy the Quarry when they try to reactivate that branch - I saw plenty of backyards that the route would traverse to supply potential NIMBYs from.
RagsCo4 wrote:If you could see if you could take a picture of that map. I bet it is nice to look at!! Is the map historical??Sir Ray wrote:F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:http://www.nhhsrail.com/pdfs/ea/appendix_03.pdfLooking at Google Satellite, looks like the ROW curves south-west toward what is now marked as Midstate Medical Center (on Kensington Ave.) - could that have been a big industrial site at one time? Oddly, Center Street itself runs, parallel to the Springfield line , a little to the East, and doesn't seem to cross the track segment in question.
p. 7 on the NHHS bridge inventory and action plan. The overhead bridge at MP 19.9 to be removed. Note though that the CT Rail Map (http://www.ct.gov/dot/lib/dot/documents ... r36x24.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) designates that stretch of ROW on the west side of the Springfield Line as the "Center Street Branch", separate from the Quarry branch on the easterly side. I don't know what the difference is. Did the quarry ever use that for anything, or was there once a different customer down there?
Actually, I didn't see any remaining evidence that the Quarry Spur or the Center St. Spur (which seem to have been one long route) were tied into the Springfield branch.
I also don't envy the Quarry when they try to reactivate that branch - I saw plenty of backyards that the route would traverse to supply potential NIMBYs from.
The line you are talking about that is now Midstate Medical Center is the same line as the Quarry line. They would cross over the mainline and then using a siding to get onto the main line.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=gracey+a ... ticut&z=20" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
There was never a center street line to my knowledge however the quarry line did go to a factory at 290 Pratt St.https://maps.google.com/maps?q=brooksid ... 19&iwloc=A" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
If you clink on the link you can see the tunnel under 691 that is the line that connected the factory to the quarry line.
There was a rail yard right off State St Ext you can see they use it for storage right now, but have also seen them use it for some heavy machinery that has been brought in by rail from time to time.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=State+St ... t+Ext&z=17" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
There is a really cool old map in the Clerks office in Meriden's City Hall, it has all the old rai lyards on it and everything in between including a pretty big rail yard that was once on the canal line.