Resources and Links

New Haven Model Railroads

For other railroads and eras, there are links to many other model railroad layout blogs on the right-hand column of my blog.

• Chris Adams' The Valley Local, of course, or you can go directly to his blog.

Chris' layout and modeling are a primary inspiration, of course, but also a collaborative one since we rally started building our layouts (and websites) around the same time. I find it particularly interesting how we diverge in our approaches to what is theoretically the same goal - model the New Haven Railroad in the same era as accurately as we can.

• Jim Fellows' Norwich and Worcester in 1958, 1968 and 1978.

• Peter Ness' New Haven Railroad in 1959.

• Joe Smith's Signal Station 199 of the Berkshire Line.

• The Stamford Model Railroad Club is a longtime O-scale club layout founded in 1939, with construction of the layout started after WWII in the basement of St. Johns Church in Stamford. 

Honorary NH Model Railroad

Hey, the O&W was once controlled by the NH.

Bill Schneider's Old Woman in the Back Bedroom (New York, Ontario & Western) from the Internet Archive.

It was an amazing layout in a small space, a lot of fun to operate, and an inspiration for my prior and current layouts. 

Bill's layout was really the biggest inspiration for my layout and my modeling approach. One of several layouts I operated when designing the layout, and really showed me what you can accomplish (and how) when prototype modeling. As I was continuing to look for a place to model, an old photo of New Britain Yard in front of the station reminded me of of Bill's layout, where a lot of the action takes place in a compact location. 

His new layout is continued inspiration, and I hope he starts a new blog or site to share that one.

Prototype Railroad Sources

Here's a list of sites I reference frequently for prototype information on the New Haven Railroad, and railroads during my era in general.

• New Haven Railroad Historical and Technical Association

The Shoreliner is essential, of course, and the forum is too.

• • • • Shoreliner Index

  • Along the Line New Haven Railroad employee magazine; and

    • • NYNH&H News, its predecessor; and 

      • Rider's Digest their passenger magazine

• The Alphabet Route Covers NKP, W&LE, P&WV, WM, RDG, CNJ, L&HR, NH. Includes rosters, diagrams, and some documents.

  • CT Railroad Valuation Maps

  • DOT Investigations of Railroad Accidents 1911-1993 

• Moving the Freight 

• New Haven RR Steam Locomotives A to Z Ed Ozog's excellent site on all classes of NH steam.

  • New Haven Railroad Videos

• New York Central Freight Car Roster

• Pennsylvania Freight Car Roster

  • Railway Age

  • Railway Mechanical Engineer

• Steam Era Freight Cars

• Tyler City Station Bob Belletzkie's exhaustive site on CT railroad stations.