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Waterbury Yard is a classification yard in Waterbury, Connecticut, in the United States.
Sources
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Engineering_Record_Building_Record_and_S/0J1EAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=waterbury+rail+yard&pg=RA4-PA683&printsec=frontcover
1909 saw an all-time record amount of freight at Waterbury Yard, with more than 1,000 outbound freight shipments in a single day.[1] The Bridgeport Herald asserted that Waterbury Yard was one of the busiest in New England, second in size only to Boston, and in importance only to Boston and the Harlem River Yards.[2] Increases in traffic merited the installation of automatic scales for recording cargo weights in 1910.[3]
By the time Penn Central Transportation Company absorbed the New Haven, Waterbury Yard was significantly diminished. From 1950 onward, portions of the yard were sold off for reuse as commercial real estate. Heavily impacted by the rise of trucks, the yard was described as "almost silent" in 1973.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ "Freight Records Broken Again At Waterbury". Bridgeport Herald. October 10, 1909. p. 16.
- ^ "Pete Meehan Is Ideal Yard Master". Bridgeport Herald. December 5, 1909. p. 11.
- ^ "Remarkable Scales to Get Tonnage of Freight Cars in Waterbury Yards". Bridgeport Herald. January 16, 1910. p. 10.
- ^ "Railroads Still Run Downhill". Meriden Record-Journal. June 12, 1973. p. 6.