Connecticut Company: Crossing Repairs

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Crossing Repairs

As I arrived at the museum for the Board of Directors meeting yesterday, I was informed by operations that a gate at the Winkler Road Crossing was hit during the course of the day. We have new gate components for the crossing, however, the new gates are not fully assembled. I was able to draft the help of Xian Clere, Chris Shaw, and Mike Caputo in fixing the gate. It is a temporary repair at best, but it will get us by until the weekend when the new gate can be finished and installed.

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"Connecticut Company" is NOT an official blog of the Connecticut Trolley Museum. The articles posted within this site are the views of the contributors only and do not necessarily reflect the views of the organization.

This blog site is named after the original Connecticut Company or ConnCo, which ran trolleys throughout Connecticut from 1910 to 1948. ConnCo was a subsidy of the New Haven Railroad. By 1948, ConnCo converted all trolley operation to buses, and the era came to a close in Connecticut.

However, eight years prior, in 1940, the Connecticut Electric Railway Association was formed in an effort to preserve a streetcar from Hartford. In 1941, CERA saved its first car, ConnCo 65 from the scrapper. When trolley service ended in 1948, CERA saved 7 more ConnCo cars.

Today, the Connecticut Trolley Museum is the oldest incorporated museum dedicated to railway preservation in the country. Although not the largest, CTM's has a collection covering many of the major types of trolley cars including streetcars, interurbans, elevated cars, and work cars from the Northeast, Midwest, Deep South and Internationally as well.