by Noel Weaver
The map of Penn Central as of 1969 in the February, 2010 Trains Magazine is quite interesting.
There is one really good error in it, on the former New Haven Branch between Stamford and New Canaan in Connecticut they
show the line as 5 to 19 million gross tons. This line is an 8 mile mostly passenger branch off the main line at Stamford and
even in 1969 it did not and never had really heavy freight tonnage. At the time the local went up from Stamford with a yard
engine or maybe an SW-1200 or RS-3 with a handful of cars for maybe seven or eight local customers at the time. Within a
year about half of the business was gone as outfits closed or relocated. There is no way that this branch carried more
freight than the main line did. There may be other errors regarding the former New Haven territory but I can't be sure.
I am sure about this one.
Incidentally CSX still has the freight rights on this branch but there hasn't been a freight movement on it in the past few
years, no more customers and maybe no more sidings either for freight.
Noel Weaver
There is one really good error in it, on the former New Haven Branch between Stamford and New Canaan in Connecticut they
show the line as 5 to 19 million gross tons. This line is an 8 mile mostly passenger branch off the main line at Stamford and
even in 1969 it did not and never had really heavy freight tonnage. At the time the local went up from Stamford with a yard
engine or maybe an SW-1200 or RS-3 with a handful of cars for maybe seven or eight local customers at the time. Within a
year about half of the business was gone as outfits closed or relocated. There is no way that this branch carried more
freight than the main line did. There may be other errors regarding the former New Haven territory but I can't be sure.
I am sure about this one.
Incidentally CSX still has the freight rights on this branch but there hasn't been a freight movement on it in the past few
years, no more customers and maybe no more sidings either for freight.
Noel Weaver