New Haven Connecticut Company Streetcar photos

[rcdrye]

1905 J.M. Jones (West Troy/Watervliet NY) car with two 65 HP motors.  The cars were very slippery because the motors were mounted one axle per truck. Other series of ConnCo open cars had four 40 HP motors. These cars also had the lighting wiring arranged in a mesh instead of the usual five bulb strings, so a single bulb failure didn't darken a whole section of the car.

[daveklepper]

Fan-trip open car 810 at a Shore Road location:

[daveklepper]

Walter Zulig informs me that the square concrete eight-story building was the NYNH&H RR main office building on Mulberry Street, which he visited many times, and that the one-man steel car in the rain was probably on Union Street near the railroad station.

[daveklepper]

Improving the previous photo in its place. and here are two more for location designation:

[rcdrye]

What you see as dirt is fine gravel.  The track crews really couldn't see the condition of the ties etc.  Covering the track structure made for a (somewhat) quieter ride but tie lifespan suffered a lot.  I'm sure spot checks were made regularly.

[MidlandMike]

All the recent posts show the tracks buried in the dirt.  How did track crew know the condition of ties, spikes, and rail base?

[daveklepper]

The previous picture is fron a newspaper clipping tn ithe Shore Line Trolley Museum's files that E. O. scanned.   My photo of 3803 shows more of the environment, looking eastward.  The

 exact name of the vlocation of the three photos is still requesteed.

[daveklepper]

From Eric Oszustowicz:

West of Savin Rock, the trolley line to Milford and Bridgeport ran on a private right-of-way to the north of Ocean Avenue.  Car 3204 is shown here traveling eastbound on Sunday, April 27, 1947. (Branford Electric Railway Association Collection)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[daveklepper]

Two more Connecticut Company pictores:  1817 on the "M' Line at the  Savin Rock Amusement Park, with the roller-coaster right behind.  Anyone know where thee rural setting of "J" 3207 is?

[daveklepper]

From   

ERIC OSZUSTOWICZ	12:31 PM (1 hour ago)

As best as I can research on my way to work on the subway…….

The structures over Church Street were pedestrian footbridges between the buildings in the sprawling Sargent Manufacturing Complex. There were others over other areas not shown in the trolley photo.

An 1870 photo (see below) shows that the pedestrian connecting bridges were already present. 

Sargent’s expansion was pretty much constant. According to sources, the buildings were lettered and by 1882, the buildings were lettered A through V. Some of these buildings were used until circa 1964 and replaced with a modern facility in the same area of New Haven.

 

A brief history of this iconic company (Sargent) can be found on their website. The Sargent locks in your house were most likely produced in New Haven.

 

[daveklepper]

Two more: The angled photo of 663 open is obviously at end of usable track adjacent to Hemigway Street in East Haven, as the location for the two photos with my Dad on the open-bench-car thread; but what, where, and was going on with Sargent?

[daveklepper]

More, just scanned:

 

[daveklepper]

Older one-man lightweight on the same rout:

 

[daveklepper]

I have concentrated my photo repair work to make the railway fully and correctly presented.

Here, I tried to go further to respect the auto at the left of the Osgood-Bradley lighweight.

Compare with the previous posting and let me know if the additional several-hours worthwhile.   Thanks.

[rcdrye]

838 is also at Seashore.  Operable but not in regular use this summer due to reduction in visitor numbers.  There are two others which need a bit of work.

[daveklepper]

Good response, RC, thanks.  Also 1414 at Brandford, lettered for Connecticut Co., but the tendency is to use B&QT-BMT 4573 Convertable in summer configuration.

[rcdrye]

Seashore Trolley Museum has 615 from the same series as 663 in regular service (as 303, its Winchester Avenue Railway number).  Ride it any time the sun is shining.

[seppburgh2]

 

I'll trade my iPhone and the Internet for a ride on car 663.  Thanks for sharing a glimpse in time. 

 

[Flintlock76]

I still keep shaking my head over all that was and is now lost.

I'll probably keep shaking my head until my brain turns to sludge.

[daveklepper]

Two more:

 

[daveklepper]