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Rudberg Research Collection of the Central New England Railway
405 Babbidge Road, Unit 1205
Storrs, Connecticut 06269-1205
Overview of the Collection |
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| Repository: | Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. |
| Creator: | Bernard L. Rudberg |
| Title: | Rudberg Research Collection of the Central New England Railway |
| Dates: | 2002-2008 |
| Quantity: | .5 linear feet |
| Identification: | MSS20080043 |
| Language: | English. |
| Abstract: | The collection consists of tour guidebooks compiled by Bernard L. Rudberg of photocopies of photographs, maps, correspondence, and documents related to the history of the Central New England Railway, which ran from Maybrook, New York, to Hartford, Connecticut, in the period between 1898 and 1927, at which point it was taken over by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Mr. Rudberg creates the books for the participants of an annual guided bus tour he coordinates, in April or May of each year beginning in 2002, that follows portions of the old railway line, and provides information about the towns on the route, train wrecks that occurred, old carbarns, turntables and roundhouses, and such features as the Poughkeepsie River Bridge. |
Biography
Bernard L. Rudberg is a resident of Wappinger Falls, New York, and author of Twenty-five years on the ND&C : a history of the Newburgh, Dutchess & Connecticut Railroad (Fleischmanns, N.Y. : Purple Mountain Press, 2002). He is the coordinator of an annual bus tour of the defunct railroad line of the Central New England Railway and its predecessor and successor railroad lines.
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Scope and Content
The collection consists of tour guidebooks, each with over 200 pages, compiled by Bernard L. Rudberg of photocopies of photographs, maps, correspondence, and documents related to the history of the Central New England Railway, which ran from Maybrook, New York, to Hartford, Connecticut, in the period between 1898 and 1927, at which point it was taken over by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Mr. Rudberg creates the books for the participants of an annual guided bus tour he coordinates, in April or May of each year beginning in 2002, that follows portions of the old railway line, and provides information about the towns on the route, train wrecks that occurred, old carbarns, turntables and roundhouses, and such features as the Poughkeepsie River Bridge.
Predecessor railroad lines of the Central New England Railway included the Clove Branch Railroad, the Connecticut Western Railroad, the Dutchess & Columbia Railroad, the Dutchess County Railroad, the Hartford & Connecticut Western Railroad, the New York & Massachusett Railroad, the New York & New England Railroad, the Newburgh, Dutchess & Connecticut Railroad, the Philadelphia, Reading & New England Railroad, the Poughkeepsie & Connecticut Railroad, and the Poughkeepsie & Eastern Railroad.
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Restrictions
Restrictions on Access
There are no access restrictions on this collection.
Restrictions on Use
Permission to publish from this Collection must be obtained in writing from both the University of Connecticut Libraries and the owner(s) of the copyright.
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Related Material
Archives & Special Collections has a substantial collection of New England railroad history materials. For detailed information on these collections please contact the curator or ask at the reference desk.
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Index Terms
This record series is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
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Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
[Item description, #:#], Rudberg Research Collection of the Central New England Railway. Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries
Acquisition Information
Materials were donated by Mr. Bernard L. Rudberg between 2002 and 2008.
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Detailed Description
| Research Collection, 2002-2008 | |||||||||||
| 1:1 | Tour guidebook, 2002 | ||||||||||
| 1:2 | Tour guidebook, 2003 | ||||||||||
| 1:3 | Tour guidebook, 2004 | ||||||||||
| 1:4 | Tour guidebook, 2005 | ||||||||||
| 1:5 | Tour guidebook, 2006 | ||||||||||
| 1:6 | Tour guidebook, 2007 | ||||||||||
| 1:7 | Tour guidebook, 2008 | ||||||||||