| On a fine late
October afternoon, with the New England Autumn leaves in
full glory, we arrived in the pleasant town of Thomaston,
Connecticut. The old 1881 brick Thomaston Passenger
Station now houses the Railroad Museum of New England and
is the embarkation station for the museum's excursion
line, the Naugatuck Railroad.
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| Lead by GE U25B NH2525
("the last New Haven line loco" built in 1965
in Erie, Pennsylvania) and pulling former Canadian
National 1923 Montreal Coach Works passenger cars, the 17
mile run travels South along the Naugatuck River to
Waterbury, and then goes up and across the Thomaston Dam.
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The original Naugatuck Railroad began operations in 1849 and became a part of the New Haven Railroad in 1887. The Museum, founded in 1968, began operating the excursion line in 1996.
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| On The day we
rode the line, one of our engineers was a young woman who
had met and married her husband, also a volunteer
engineer, on the Naugatuack Railroad!
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Further information and details may be obtained directly from the museum's website: http://www.rmne.org
photos by railpipe
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