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Ed Murphy - When I was a kid (in the early '50s, my parents vacationed in the Canaan area at a lake that I can't remember the name of. We'd take the New Haven from NYCity and eventually get on a bus for the last few miles. I recall the vacation when we went for two, rather than one week, and that year two hurricanes hit Conn. approx a week apart, causing havoc w/ the railroads and highways. Our nice, real close-to-the-water cabin resembled a house boat by the second week, and we had to camp out in the main lodge and eat cold food, since all the power was out, along with the roads in and out. The New Haven was apparantly very hard hit, losing bridges, tresles, and a lot of roadbed. We had to take a series of buses back to NYCity in order to get home. <br /> <br />We also had friends that lived in Darien and used to take the New Haven there on occasion, and one weekend my Dad bought a building lot in Old Greeewich, which we never built on, and sold some years later. When I worked for Norden in Norwalk, I lived in Milford, giving me the opportunity to also observe the NH when sitting in traffic on the Turnpike. The New Haven was an extremely unique railroad with its diverse motive power, and the mystique, at least for me, of all its catenary, commuter stations, complex trackwork and heavy traffic. And the New Haven had some of the neatest paint schemes, esp during the McGinnis era. <br /> <br />Had you ever eaten at the Yankee Silversmith Inn in Wallingford? They have an old wood sided Pullman Dining Car on the premises, or at least they did have the last time I was there. That was, and hope it still is, one of the finest and friendliest restaurants I have ever been to, and whenever in that area I make a point of going there. They have the most incredible "pop-overs" - a type of roll that is unequaled anywhere I have ever dined.
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