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Welcome to
TylerCityStation, or as we like to say... "All Aboard!"
UPDATES ARE IN YELLOW TEXT/ALL STATION POSTINGS
ARE ON TRACK 16
2/19: CTTRAXMAP7 is now available for download at the blue link on
Track 15, plus
updates on Track 16 at CLINTON1, CLINTON4, MADISON1, MADISON3 (new listing!),
TIN BRIDGE, WESTBROOK3
(new listing!) 2/14: Valentine's Day new stuff includes a great, rare shot of the NH&D
West Water St. yard and Custom House Square crossing on Track 4A at MP 4.6.1!... plus updates on Track 16 at CROMWELL1, NEW HAVEN4,9, ORE HILL1, SACHEMS
HEAD1 (new listing!),2, SPRINGDALE3 (new listing!), STONY CREEK1 (ca. 1852, it still stands, photos!), TORRINGFORD STREET
(lost image found on 1908 bird's-eye map!), WATERBURY3, WEST CHESHIRE. Also, revised CTTRAXMAP3 is downloadable at the blue link on next TCS page. 2/8: This is a really
big shew, as Ed Sullivan used to say! RIDE THE NH&D!!! Al Weaver and I have collaborated
on a tour that follows Track 4, the NH&D from New Haven to Ansonia, with selected historical materials interspersed and
POIs along the line noted. It still needs work but enjoy the ride, warts and all, and let us know what you think! Click here and here.
2/6: CTTRAXMAP2 now available for download on Track 15: CNE 1903 realign at ORE HILL added; minor NRR revises, Jericho
moves north!, ROW edits at the Thomaston Dam, etc; trolley line in Milford corrected as running via Lafayette, Rogers, Broadway
and Silver Sands to Naugatuck Ave. 2/4: CTTRAXMAP Debuts! In response to a recent suggestion,
we screwed up our courage and put the trolley lines on the Google Earth map, for at least two reasons. First, these lines
are sometimes confused with railroad tracks in a particular area where the two ran close together, e.g. Cheshire, and second,
the urban and interurban electric lines were an important transportation network in their own right and sometimes even shared
track with the steam railroads. For now, we have done only major routes between towns. There has been no attempt to place
the line on the correct side of the street or highway, to include trolley stations aside from an occasional POI, or to follow
short private ROWs. In cases of doubt, we have routed tracks along major arteries between urban areas and the cities themselves
may be sketchy and have a line running along a wrong street here and there. That's where YOU come in. Give us feedback!!
Let us know where we are wrong and we will edit. Meanwhile, the fourth file in the CTTRAXMAP sidebar is CT ST RWYS. Follow
the orange paths and take yet another ride back into history! The entries posted above point you to significant additions
and changes that are highlighted in yellow on our Track pages. These indicators are removed after
a period of time and, once this is done, changes may escape notice and contradict
earlier notes and copies you might have made.
Please use the page update indicators as a guide and recheck details of interest as necessary.
Any and all requests for clarification, as well as comments and suggestions regarding this
site, can be sent to caboose@tylercitystation.info c/o Bob, WebStationmaster. _________________________________________________________________________________
We turned over the counter in mid-September with 10,000 TCS passengers since opening!
That
figure plus the current total is the approximate number
of visitors since 12/25/2008. Thanks for the
interest, the contributed material, and the support!
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INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL
Scope
This website, born on Christmas Day, 2008, aspires to be an informative cyber-destination for
those interested in the history of railroads. The focus will be on those in southwestern Connecticut,
but side tracks may also lead us elsewhere. The important role that the railroad played in the development
of this state and this country can hardly be overestimated. To many of us, the subject is almost sacred.
The .info domain was chosen to reflect this sentiment. Mission
TylerCityStation is a non-profit, educational endeavor that
seeks to bring print and electronic research materials together to better understand the
people, places, and events that played a role in the building of our railroads. Newly digitized resources,
Internet connectivity, and greater online interaction has already enabled us to answer
long-standing questions about lines, stations, facilities, personnel, and equipment even
for obscure places like Tyler City.
Authenticity
It is our intention to present research of the highest quality, with sources identified
and verified and dates specified as fully as possible. Periodicals will be an important source category
and references will be given in this format [NYT/01/01/1901/01 = abbreviated title/month/day/year/page]
in the text or in endnotes. Ongoing research will mean changes in the text and these will be
highlighted in yellow. Revision dates will be indicated on
the home page and on the top of each Track page.
Credit
Material that is not in the public domain is published here only with owner permission. Any
further use requires similar permission. The reproduction of this site in its entirety or
in substantial part is not permitted. Scholarly use of data should acknowledge TylerCityStation.
The visuals we use add greatly to the content and
we hope contributors will share material, regardless of the quality, which we try to enhance as best we can.
Collaboration
Many thanks
to the Friends of TylerCityStation, especially to: Charlie Dunn for his numerous contributions and the
cooperation of the New Haven Railroad Historical and Technical Association; Richard A. Fleischer for
significant corrections of technical detail; Al Weaver for his mapping and photographic skills and for
his comaraderie in the field; Dave Peters
for access to the collections of the Peters Railroad Museum [see below]; Rich Malley at the Connecticut
Historical Society for his enthusiastic support and the use of CHS materials; Max Miller for the PUC inspection photographs
and other assistance; the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at UConn, in the person of Laura Katz Smith; John Babina, Jr. for the world-class photographs; and, to all the many
others who have made individual contributions that are too numerous to mention here but very much appreciated
nonetheless. We are always happy to give line credit for all materials sent by contributors, or
not, as they wish.
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Order Board - Table of Contents
Home -
TylerCityStation
Track 1. Tyler
City - Connecticut's Railroad Boom Town
Track 2. The New Haven and Derby
Railroad, 1864-1941
Track 3. New Haven and Derby Extra: Locomotive roster,
statistics, officials.
Track 4. New Haven and Derby Main
Line: Tour from New Haven to Ansonia.
Track 4A. New
Haven to West Haven
Track 4B. West Haven to Derby Jct.
Track 4C. Derby Jct. to Ansonia
Track 5. New Haven and Derby Extension: Tour from Derby Jct. to Botsford.
Track 6. The Iron Horse in New Haven, 1838-1920
Track
7. New Haven Extra - Photo and archival materials (in progress)
Track
8. West Haven: Railroads and Orphans
Track 9. Brookfield
and its Railroads, 1840-1941
Track 10. Danbury and its Railroads, 1850-1920
Track 15. CTTRAXMAP with passenger stations, rail and trolley lines and POIS
Track 16. CT Passenger Stations
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Newspaper Abbreviations
The following are the major newspapers cited.
Many underwent name changes in their publishing history and this can be confusing. We have attempted to represent the masthead
names as accurately as possible and these are grouped together below for the same paper. In most cases,
long-running papers like the Hartford Courant are microfilmed or digitized in one continuous series
under the primary title, regardless of variant titles in different years. Many of these newspapers are
also available at the Connecticut State Library or other public and academic libraries and historical
societies across the state. Click here for the reQuest catalog at iCONN. Log in as Guest, and search with the Magazines/Journals tab on the next page. Statewide
holdings of books and other materials can also be found here using the other tabs. AES Ansonia Evening Sentinel;
also published as
ES
Evening Sentinel
BEP Bridgeport Evening Post
BRP
Bristol Press
BWP Bristol Weekly Press
C Constitution [Middletown];
also published as
DC Daily Constitution CH
Connecticut Herald [New Haven] CR
Columbian Register [New Haven]
CWN
Connecticut Western News [Canaan]
DTR Derby Transcript
DT
Danbury Times; later published as
DEN Danbury Evening
News,
DN Danbury News,
DNT
Danbury News-Times
FVH Farmington Valley Herald [Bristol]
HC Hartford Courant; also published as
HDC
Hartford Daily Courant LJ
Lakeville Journal MJ
Mystic Journal
NA Norwich Aurora NB
Newtown Bee
NDN Naugatuck Daily News
NHDP New Haven Daily Palladium; also published as
NHWP New
Haven Weekly Palladium
NHEL New Haven Evening Leader
NHER New Haven Evening Register; also published as
NHR
New Haven Register
NHJC New Haven Journal Courier; also published
as
New Haven Daily Morning
Journal and Courier
NHU New Haven Union
NLD
New London Day
NLDC New London Daily Chronicle
NLDE
New London Democrat
NMG New Milford Gazette NYH New York Herald
NYHT
New York Herald-Tribune
NYT
The New York Times PS
Pittsfield Sun
RF
Republican Farmer [Bridgeport]
SR Springfield
Republican
TR Torrington Register
TER
Torrington Evening Register WEC
Winsted
Evening Citizen WA Waterbury
American
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Links to Important
Research Resources [with acronyms used at
TylerCityStation] Note: There are more research links on the Connecticut
Passenger Station home page.
Buildings and Structures of American
Railroads. [BSAR] by Walter Gilman Berg. Click here.
Connecticut Digital Library. [iCONN] Search the catalogs of most CT libraries. Click here.
Connecticut Historical Society.
[CHS] Catalog link here.
Connecticut
History Online. [CHO] Search link here.
Connecticut
Place Names. [CPN] Arthur H. Hughes and Morse S. Allen, 1976.
Connecticut Railroad Commissioners. [CRC] Annual reports, 1854-1911.
Digitized by Google Books; unlinked are at CSL and other repositories. Type '1' into the page box if a link below does not open to the first page.
1-1854 2-1855 3-1856 4-1857 5-1858 6-1859 7-1860 8-1861 9-1862 10-1863 11-1864 12-1865 13-1866 14-1867
15-1868 16-1869 17-1870 18-1871 19-1872 20-1873 21-1874 22-1875 23-1876 24-1877 25-1878 26-1879 27-1880 28-1881 29-1882 30-1883 31-1884 32-1885 33-1886 34-1886 35-1887 36-1888 37-1889 38-1890 39-1891 40-1892 41-1893 42-1894 43-1895 44-1896 45-1897 46-1898 47-1899 48-1900 49-1901 50-1902 51-1903 52-1904 53-1905 54-1906 55-1907 56-1908 57-1909 58-1910 59-1911.
Connecticut Railroad Structures. [CRS]
Railroad Station Historical Society. Click here. [NOTE: Some errors and not updated
since 2005.]
Connecticut State Library. [CSL] Catalog link here. 1934 Aerial maps link here. Others also available here. Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, UConn. [Dodd] Railroad
collection link here. Archive here.
I.C.C. Historical Railroad Investigation Reports.
[IRIR] 1911-1994. Click here.
I.C.C. Valuation Maps. [Val] UConn Digital Mosaic. Click here. Click here for fast new index map!
Library
of Congress. [LOC] Catalog here; American Memory here; newspapers here; maps here.
Lines West: A Brief History. Phillip C. Blakeslee. 1951, 1953. Click here.
Maintenance of Way Cyclopedia. [MOWC]
E.T Howson, American Railway Engineering Association, 1923. Click here.
Map and Geographic Information Center, UConn.
[MAGIC] Link here.
New Haven City Year Books.
[NHCYB] Selected years available, 1873-1922. Click here.
New Haven Free Public Library. [NHFPL] Catalog
link here. Inquire about local history items.
New Haven Museum and
Historical Society. [NHMHS] Website here; catalog is not online.
New Haven Railroad Historical and Technical
Association. [NHRHTA] Click here. New Haven RR Steam
Locomotives A-Z. Ed Ozog's fabulous photo collection. Click here. New York, New Haven and Hartford
RR. [NHAR] Annual reports, 1873-1912, with gaps. Click here for 1(1873)-23(1894); here and here for 26(1897)-30(1901); here for 35(1906)- 1(1912). Some not be complete, others have extra material. Search online for more years. Also note that these were issued in full and pamphlet-sized editions so page numbers may vary. Official Railway
Timetables and Shipping Guides. [ORSG] Online via Google Books: 1851 here;
1858 here; 1871 here; 1875 here; 1877 here; 1879 here; 1892-1915 here; 1907 here; 1917 here. Look for more years as they keep popping up. Peters Railroad Museum. [PRM] A priceless collection of NYNH&H
and predecessor historical materials, with annual reports, blueprints
and technical drawings, timetables
(public and employee), valuation photos, and much, much more. A miniature Dodd Center in Wallingford! Graciously hosted by Dave and Barbara Peters. By
appointment only. Click here for website and phone. Railroad
Structures and Estimates. [RSE] by John Wilson Orrock. 2nd ed., 1918. Click here.
Railway
and Locomotive Historical Society. [RLHS] Click here. See especially Taber's Antebellum American Railroad 1830-1860 Compendium:
click here.
Railway Signal Dictionary.
[RSD] Railway Signal Association. 2nd ed., 1911. Click here.
USGS Historical Topographic Maps. [USGS]. Maptech
here; University of New Hampshire here.
Yale University Libraries. [Yale] Catalog link here.
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