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By:Stu Nicholson
Dates:8/29/2013 - 8/29/2013
Album Info:Still somewhat in the "rainbow era" of castoff locomotives and rolling stock: it was a good time to have a camera handy.
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Ex-New Haven Cedar Hill Yard
Title:  Ex-New Haven Cedar Hill Yard
Description:  A lot of Penn Central power still around in this 1975 view.
Photo Date:  8/29/2013  Upload Date: 8/29/2013 9:32:45 PM
Location:  New Haven, CT
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Yard,Track
Locomotives:  PC 7668(RS11) PC 8454(SW1) PC 9534(SW1500)
Views:  576   Comments: 0
Ex-New Haven Cedar Hill Yard
Title:  Ex-New Haven Cedar Hill Yard
Description:  A steam-era relic remains at the former New Haven Cedar Hill Yards in 1975. Many of these old coaling towers remain today, because they were so heavily-built that it is too costly and difficult to tear them down.
Photo Date:  8/29/2013  Upload Date: 8/29/2013 7:01:31 PM
Location:  New Haven, CT
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Views:  182   Comments: 0
Ex-NewHaven Cedar Hill Yard.
Title:  Ex-NewHaven Cedar Hill Yard.
Description:  The shops and former NYNH&H roundhouse can still be seen in this 1975 view. The concrete platform for an old steam era water tower can also be seen to the right.
Photo Date:  8/29/2013  Upload Date: 8/29/2013 9:25:18 PM
Location:  New Haven, CT
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Views:  202   Comments: 0
Amtrak at New Haven 1975
Title:  Amtrak at New Haven 1975
Description:  Ex-=New Haven "hybrid" RDC arrives at New Haven late on a Fall afternoon in 1975.
Photo Date:  8/29/2013  Upload Date: 8/29/2013 6:39:14 PM
Location:  New Haven, CT
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
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Views:  117   Comments: 0
GG-1s at the power source.
Title:  GG-1s at the power source.
Description:  GG-1 #909 and other early Amtrak power sit in the foreground with the old power plant for the New Haven Railroad in the distance at New Haven CT in 1975.
Photo Date:  8/29/2013  Upload Date: 8/29/2013 9:40:01 PM
Location:  New Haven, CT
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Yard,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 909(GG1)
Views:  321   Comments: 0
Amtrak near Guilford CT 1975
Title:  Amtrak near Guilford CT 1975
Description:  And in a flash, it was gone. A good look at what the NEC looked like in 1975, before it was electrified. This was taken at Brandford CT in 1975.
Photo Date:  8/29/2013  Upload Date: 8/29/2013 6:19:35 PM
Location:  Guilford, CT
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
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Views:  133   Comments: 0
Amtrak near Guilford CT  1975
Title:  Amtrak near Guilford CT 1975
Description:  An A-A set of old E-8s flies by Branford CT bound for Boston on a Fall day in 1975, with a coach still lettered for the Penn Central
Photo Date:  8/29/2013  Upload Date: 8/29/2013 6:16:33 PM
Location:  New Haven, CT
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
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Views:  116   Comments: 0
Old New Haven freight house at Guilford CT.
Title:  Old New Haven freight house at Guilford CT.
Description:  A good steam era modeling project.
Photo Date:  8/29/2013  Upload Date: 8/29/2013 6:21:53 PM
Location:  Guilford, CT
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Yard,Station,Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  123   Comments: 0
Amtrak at New Haven 1975
Title:  Amtrak at New Haven 1975
Description:  One of the first few new diesels gets ready to hook up for a run to Boston at New Haven in 1975. Problems with vandals throwing rocks and concrete blocks from overpasses forced the addition of the steel cage window treatments.
Photo Date:  8/29/2013  Upload Date: 8/29/2013 6:09:24 PM
Location:  New Haven, CT
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 207(F40PH)
Views:  334   Comments: 0
Amtrak at Old Saybrook in 1975.
Title:  Amtrak at Old Saybrook in 1975.
Description:  Amtrak was starting to get the first Metroliner cars into service.
Photo Date:  8/29/2013  Upload Date: 8/29/2013 6:52:47 PM
Location:  New Haven, CT
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
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Views:  118   Comments: 0
NEC near Guilford CT in 1975
Title:  NEC near Guilford CT in 1975
Description:  Looking northbound in 1975 on what is now an electrified Northeast Corridor at Guilford, CT. The area to the right was once a small yard for the old New Haven Railroad. The brick structure to the left was actually an old two-stall engine house that dated back to the late 1800's. Hard to say if it is still there.
Photo Date:  8/29/2013  Upload Date: 8/29/2013 6:25:52 PM
Location:  Guilford, CT
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Views:  133   Comments: 2
Amtrak a New Haven 1975
Title:  Amtrak a New Haven 1975
Description:  E-60 leaves New Haven with a New York - Washington bound consist.
Photo Date:  8/29/2013  Upload Date: 8/29/2013 6:42:40 PM
Location:  New Haven, CT
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 960(E60)
Views:  284   Comments: 2
Amtrak Fly-By at Old Saybrook
Title:  Amtrak Fly-By at Old Saybrook
Description:  An express flies by the old tower and depot at Old Saybrook, CT in 1975.
Photo Date:  8/29/2013  Upload Date: 8/29/2013 6:33:38 PM
Location:  New Haven, CT
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 209(F40PH)
Views:  361   Comments: 0
New Haven RR (Amtrak) station at Old Saybrook CT in 1975
Title:  New Haven RR (Amtrak) station at Old Saybrook CT in 1975
Description:  The station building still exists today, but has been replaced by a modern station with an overhead walkway.
Photo Date:  8/29/2013  Upload Date: 8/29/2013 9:36:17 PM
Location:  New Haven, CT
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  146   Comments: 0
Amtrak E-8 leads traiin into Old Saybrook for a quick stop.
Title:  Amtrak E-8 leads traiin into Old Saybrook for a quick stop.
Description:  Northbound train rolls into Old Saybrook CT in 1975.
Photo Date:  8/29/2013  Upload Date: 8/29/2013 6:49:29 PM
Location:  New Haven, CT
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
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Views:  112   Comments: 0
Amtrak a New Haven 1975
Title:  Amtrak a New Haven 1975
Description:  A lot of old Budd and ACF equipment sitting in the coach yard at New Haven in 1975. Can sill see some old Pen Central and even an ex-Pennsy coach.
Photo Date:  8/29/2013  Upload Date: 8/29/2013 6:45:34 PM
Location:  New Haven, CT
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  RollingStock,Station,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  136   Comments: 0
Ex-NH / PC station at Stratford CT in 1973
Title:  Ex-NH / PC station at Stratford CT in 1973
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/29/2013  Upload Date: 8/30/2013 3:27:24 PM
Location:  Stratford, CT
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  166   Comments: 0
Old New Haven MOW building at Derby Jct. in 1973.
Title:  Old New Haven MOW building at Derby Jct. in 1973.
Description:  Battered by time and weather, this MOW structure sat the junction of the NEC and the former NYNH&H Derby line.
Photo Date:  8/29/2013  Upload Date: 8/30/2013 3:31:46 PM
Location:  Stratford, CT
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Yard,Track
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Views:  223   Comments: 0
Amtrak at Old Saybrook CT in 1975.
Title:  Amtrak at Old Saybrook CT in 1975.
Description:  This scene today is dominated by a new Amtrak station with an overhead walkway and lots of overhead wires. Acelas now run where these old Budd and ACF products ran in 1975.
Photo Date:  8/29/2013  Upload Date: 8/29/2013 7:09:33 PM
Location:  New Haven, CT
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  133   Comments: 0
Amtrak at Old Saybrook CT in 1975.
Title:  Amtrak at Old Saybrook CT in 1975.
Description:  Even some old New Haven / PC geeps were pressed into service on the NEC in those early Amtrak days. And check out the old New Haven semaphore!
Photo Date:  8/29/2013  Upload Date: 8/29/2013 7:05:54 PM
Location:  New Haven, CT
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  PC 7554(GP9)
Views:  2240   Comments: 0
Relic of the old NYNH&H
Title:  Relic of the old NYNH&H
Description:  Classic but weather-worn ex-NH/PC tower at Derby Junction on the NEC.
Photo Date:  8/29/2013  Upload Date: 8/29/2013 7:12:53 PM
Location:  New Haven, CT
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Yard,Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  111   Comments: 0
Locomotive ready tracks at New Haven in 1975.
Title:  Locomotive ready tracks at New Haven in 1975.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/29/2013  Upload Date: 8/30/2013 10:11:21 AM
Location:  New Haven, CT
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 495(E8A) AMTK 14(RDC1)
Views:  679   Comments: 0
Amtrak a New Haven 1975
Title:  Amtrak a New Haven 1975
Description:  Slowly replacing the old GG-1s were these boxy-looking electrics. Not exactly a beauty.
Photo Date:  8/29/2013  Upload Date: 8/29/2013 6:29:29 PM
Location:  New Haven, CT
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Roster,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 960(E60)
Views:  305   Comments: 0


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