SILENT GROUNDS COLLECTIVE · NONPROFIT EDUCATIONAL ARCHIVE
SGC-93 · Research edition September 24, 2026
A photographic history with cited opening dates, collection history and individually credited images. Historic views, later photographs and illustrations are dated separately. This is a selected collection, not an exhaustive inventory.
1970s postcard of two Alco FA-1 units at New Haven Yard in mid-1957
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Divided back postcard of the New Haven streetcar viaduct, with a southbound passenger train in the adjacent cut
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A New Haven Railroad EMU at Greenwich in 1964
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Jack Boucher’s 1977 engineering-survey photograph records the surviving New Haven railroad yards and shops. This is a later survey view, after the New Haven Railroad’s separate corporate life ended.
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Jack Boucher’s 1977 engineering-survey photograph records the surviving New Haven railroad yards and shops. This is a later survey view, after the New Haven Railroad’s separate corporate life ended.
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Jack Boucher’s 1977 engineering-survey photograph records the surviving New Haven railroad yards and shops. This is a later survey view, after the New Haven Railroad’s separate corporate life ended.
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Jack Boucher’s 1977 engineering-survey photograph records the surviving New Haven railroad yards and shops. This is a later survey view, after the New Haven Railroad’s separate corporate life ended.
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Jack Boucher’s 1977 engineering-survey photograph records the surviving New Haven railroad yards and shops. This is a later survey view, after the New Haven Railroad’s separate corporate life ended.
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Jack Boucher’s 1977 engineering-survey photograph records the surviving New Haven railroad yards and shops. This is a later survey view, after the New Haven Railroad’s separate corporate life ended.
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Jack Boucher’s 1977 engineering-survey photograph records the surviving New Haven railroad yards and shops. This is a later survey view, after the New Haven Railroad’s separate corporate life ended.
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Jack Boucher’s 1977 engineering-survey photograph records the surviving New Haven railroad yards and shops. This is a later survey view, after the New Haven Railroad’s separate corporate life ended.
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Electric multiple units (left), FL9, and EP5 of the New Haven Railroad at the yard at New Haven in July 1968
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New Haven RS-3 #558 shuttling PRR coaches at New Haven, Connecticut on July 21, 1968
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New Haven FL9 #2033 with train #10, the Murray Hill , arriving at New Haven, CT on July 21, 1968
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A New Haven Railroad train at Bridgeport station in September 1962
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New Haven GP9 #1206 and other locomotives and an RDC next to the Waterbury, Connecticut station on August 24, 1968
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The North and Eastbound classification yard of Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, Connecticut, where trains headed north towards Hartford, northeast towards Middletown, or east towards New London were assembled.
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A collage of four images of train operations at Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, Connecticut. At top left, a steam locomotive pulls a train. At top right, two speeders are seen. At bottom left, a boxcab electric locomotive is seen. At bottom right is a general view of part of the yard.
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Postcard of Alco FA-1 and FB-1 locomotives at Cedar Hill Engine Terminal in 1949, sent in 1971
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These tracks were once part of the formerly extensive yards at Cedar Hill Yard, but they have long been abandoned and nature has begun to reclaim the land.
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The abandoned coaling tower in Cedar Hill Yard in August 2022
Image credit and sourceThe New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad took shape in 1872, joining a network whose roots reached back through earlier companies. To passengers it meant a timetable and a station. Behind that public face stood yards, repair shops, bridges, signals and a workforce that made every journey possible. UConn’s company archive follows the railroad through 1969, preserving the records behind both the familiar name and its many predecessors. [SGC93-S1]
New Haven’s yards and North Haven’s Cedar Hill facilities show the system at work. Freight cars had to be sorted into new trains; locomotives needed fuel, inspection and repairs. The gallery moves from trains on the line to the buildings and structures behind them. Federal engineering-survey photographs made after the company’s final years record surviving shops, rather than pretending to show their busiest moment. [SGC93-S1]
Wartime labor brought another history to Cedar Hill. UConn’s research describes the first group of roughly 300 Mexican workers arriving in January 1944 after a long journey north. Around a thousand worked for the railroad during the war. Former shop space became dormitory accommodation. Their presence belongs in the story of the railroad as much as its locomotives: these men helped keep a heavily used transportation system operating while far from home. [SGC93-S2]
Later photographs follow electric and diesel equipment at New Haven, Greenwich, Bridgeport and Waterbury, and show remnants of Cedar Hill’s earlier scale. A railroad photograph can hold several dates at once: when equipment was built, when a picture was taken and when a postcard was printed. The captions keep those distinctions visible wherever the source provides them. [SGC93-S1]
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The railroad’s 1872–1969 corporate history and extensive surviving company records.
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Credit: UConn Archives: Railroad History. Cite SGC SGC-93, SGC93-S1, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.SGC93-S2 · Historical sources · Source dates described in record
Research using company records and its wartime magazine describes Mexican railroad workers arriving in 1944.
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Credit: UConn Archives: Mexican Braceros on the New Haven Railroad. Cite SGC SGC-93, SGC93-S2, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.PHOTO-98536579 · Postcards · 1957
1970s postcard of two Alco FA-1 units at New Haven Yard in mid-1957
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Credit: J.W. Swanberg; Public domain; Wikimedia Commons. Cite SGC SGC-93, PHOTO-98536579, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.PHOTO-127728758 · Postcards · circa 1913
Divided back postcard of the New Haven streetcar viaduct, with a southbound passenger train in the adjacent cut
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Credit: Unknown author Unknown author; Public domain; Wikimedia Commons. Cite SGC SGC-93, PHOTO-127728758, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.PHOTO-54429436 · Photographs · September 1964
A New Haven Railroad EMU at Greenwich in 1964
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Credit: Roger Puta; Public domain; Wikimedia Commons. Cite SGC SGC-93, PHOTO-54429436, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.PHOTO-33829020 · Photographs · 1977
Jack Boucher’s 1977 engineering-survey photograph records the surviving New Haven railroad yards and shops. This is a later survey view, after the New Haven Railroad’s separate corporate life ended.
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Credit: Jack Boucher; Public domain; Wikimedia Commons. Cite SGC SGC-93, PHOTO-33829020, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.PHOTO-33829019 · Photographs · 1977
Jack Boucher’s 1977 engineering-survey photograph records the surviving New Haven railroad yards and shops. This is a later survey view, after the New Haven Railroad’s separate corporate life ended.
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Credit: Jack Boucher; Public domain; Wikimedia Commons. Cite SGC SGC-93, PHOTO-33829019, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.PHOTO-33829017 · Photographs · 1977
Jack Boucher’s 1977 engineering-survey photograph records the surviving New Haven railroad yards and shops. This is a later survey view, after the New Haven Railroad’s separate corporate life ended.
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Credit: Jack Boucher; Public domain; Wikimedia Commons. Cite SGC SGC-93, PHOTO-33829017, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.PHOTO-33829023 · Photographs · 1977
Jack Boucher’s 1977 engineering-survey photograph records the surviving New Haven railroad yards and shops. This is a later survey view, after the New Haven Railroad’s separate corporate life ended.
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Credit: Jack Boucher; Public domain; Wikimedia Commons. Cite SGC SGC-93, PHOTO-33829023, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.PHOTO-33829029 · Photographs · 1977
Jack Boucher’s 1977 engineering-survey photograph records the surviving New Haven railroad yards and shops. This is a later survey view, after the New Haven Railroad’s separate corporate life ended.
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Credit: Jack Boucher; Public domain; Wikimedia Commons. Cite SGC SGC-93, PHOTO-33829029, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.PHOTO-33829027 · Photographs · 1977
Jack Boucher’s 1977 engineering-survey photograph records the surviving New Haven railroad yards and shops. This is a later survey view, after the New Haven Railroad’s separate corporate life ended.
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Credit: Jack Boucher; Public domain; Wikimedia Commons. Cite SGC SGC-93, PHOTO-33829027, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.PHOTO-33829024 · Photographs · 1977
Jack Boucher’s 1977 engineering-survey photograph records the surviving New Haven railroad yards and shops. This is a later survey view, after the New Haven Railroad’s separate corporate life ended.
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Credit: Jack Boucher; Public domain; Wikimedia Commons. Cite SGC SGC-93, PHOTO-33829024, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.PHOTO-33829014 · Photographs · 1977
Jack Boucher’s 1977 engineering-survey photograph records the surviving New Haven railroad yards and shops. This is a later survey view, after the New Haven Railroad’s separate corporate life ended.
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Credit: Jack Boucher; Public domain; Wikimedia Commons. Cite SGC SGC-93, PHOTO-33829014, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.PHOTO-54434712 · Photographs · 21 July 1968
Electric multiple units (left), FL9, and EP5 of the New Haven Railroad at the yard at New Haven in July 1968
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Credit: Roger Puta; Public domain; Wikimedia Commons. Cite SGC SGC-93, PHOTO-54434712, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.PHOTO-54435069 · Photographs · 21 July 1968
New Haven RS-3 #558 shuttling PRR coaches at New Haven, Connecticut on July 21, 1968
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Credit: Roger Puta; Public domain; Wikimedia Commons. Cite SGC SGC-93, PHOTO-54435069, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.PHOTO-54429330 · Photographs · 21 July 1968
New Haven FL9 #2033 with train #10, the Murray Hill , arriving at New Haven, CT on July 21, 1968
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Credit: Roger Puta; Public domain; Wikimedia Commons. Cite SGC SGC-93, PHOTO-54429330, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.PHOTO-48847685 · Photographs · 1962-09
A New Haven Railroad train at Bridgeport station in September 1962
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Credit: Hikki Nagasaki; Public domain; Wikimedia Commons. Cite SGC SGC-93, PHOTO-48847685, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.PHOTO-54435073 · Photographs · 24 August 1968
New Haven GP9 #1206 and other locomotives and an RDC next to the Waterbury, Connecticut station on August 24, 1968
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Credit: Roger Puta; Public domain; Wikimedia Commons. Cite SGC SGC-93, PHOTO-54435073, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.PHOTO-113041038 · Photographs · 1925
The North and Eastbound classification yard of Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, Connecticut, where trains headed north towards Hartford, northeast towards Middletown, or east towards New London were assembled.
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Credit: Unknown author Unknown author; Public domain; Wikimedia Commons. Cite SGC SGC-93, PHOTO-113041038, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.PHOTO-113041037 · Photographs · 1925
A collage of four images of train operations at Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, Connecticut. At top left, a steam locomotive pulls a train. At top right, two speeders are seen. At bottom left, a boxcab electric locomotive is seen. At bottom right is a general view of part of the yard.
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Credit: Unknown author Unknown author; Public domain; Wikimedia Commons. Cite SGC SGC-93, PHOTO-113041037, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.PHOTO-98534094 · Postcards · 5 June 1949
Postcard of Alco FA-1 and FB-1 locomotives at Cedar Hill Engine Terminal in 1949, sent in 1971
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Credit: Lawson Hill; Public domain; Wikimedia Commons. Cite SGC SGC-93, PHOTO-98534094, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.PHOTO-112815809 · Photographs · 2021-11-24
These tracks were once part of the formerly extensive yards at Cedar Hill Yard, but they have long been abandoned and nature has begun to reclaim the land.
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Credit: Trainsandotherthings; CC BY-SA 4.0; Wikimedia Commons. Cite SGC SGC-93, PHOTO-112815809, source title, page and URL; accessed 2026-09-24.PHOTO-122517347 · Photographs · 28 August 2022
The abandoned coaling tower in Cedar Hill Yard in August 2022
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