Credits & Recommended Links
Railroad's Impact on American Society
1916, often referred to as the Golden Age of Railroading, was the year when railroads reached their apex in the United States. Ninety-eight percent of all intercity passenger and 77% of all intercity freight traffic was shipped by rail. Almost every family in America had a father, brother, uncle, or cousin working for the railroad. Almost no one in American lived beyond the sound of a locomotive's whistle.
Sadly, railroad ridership declined considerably during the 1960s. A major reason for this was the creation of the Interstate highway system by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1957. America's railroads—if given proper attention and resources, offer an economically and ecologically valid alternative to our current over-dependence on the automobile. Read more >
Credits and Further Info
Maptech collection of historic USGS topographic maps
http://historical.maptech.com/
Topozone
http://www.topozone.com
New Haven Railroad - historical map
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/nh/nh-map.gif
Danbury Railways
http://homepage.mac.com/housatonic/map.htm
The Shore Line Trolley Museum
http://www.bera.org/
The Danbury Railway Museum
http://www.danbury.org/drm/
Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum
http://www.cteastrrmuseum.org/
The Railroad Museum of New England
http://www.rmne.org/
Springdale Remembered: 1640-1949
(The history of a section of Stamford, Connecticut)
by Rosemary H. Burns
Published by the Stamford Historical Society, 1982
Recommend books containing information relating
to the history of Stamford, Connecticut ...
http://www.stamfordhistory.org/bookstor.htm
National Railroad Museum
National
Railroad Museum
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The Library of Congress Railroad Map Collection
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/
Steam & Electric Locomotives of the New Haven
Railroad Digital Collection
http://railroads.uconn.edu/locomotives/
Fred Otto Makowsky collection
http://railroads.uconn.edu/locomotives/aboutfred.htm
George Elwood Online Collection
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/nh/nh.html
Existing Railroad Stations in New York State
http://ny.existingstations.com/
Great Railroad Stations
http://www.trainweb.org/rshs/great_railroad_stations.htm
Stamford Historical Society
http://www.stamfordhistory.org/ph_1200.htm
Stamford History
http://www.cslib.org/stamford/
New England Railroad History
TylerCityStation
http://www.tylercitystation.info/
An amazingly well-researched site featuring photos and historical details on all of Connecticut train stations
Trolley Towns CT
http://www.bera.org/ttowns.html
Railtec - Richard Stowe
http://www.railtec.org/
The New Haven Railroad Historical and Technical Association http://www.nhrhta.org/
A Brief History Lines West
(of The New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad Co. )
By Philip C. Blakeslee
historical maps included
http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/abnere2.Html
