This is a tiny remnant of the old Central New England mainline that once connected Hartford with Maybook, N.Y. via the Poughkeepsie Bridge. Most of the line was abandoned in the 1930s east of Hopewell Junction, N.Y., though a seven mile stretch from Canaan to Lakeville, Connecticut, survived as branchline into the late 1950s. A short segment also survives in and around Hartford, Connecticut. The CNE route through here briefly hosted an overnight Boston-Washington passenger train, until the opening of the Hell Gate Bridge Route/ Penn Station and Hudson River tunnels caused it to be rerouted via New York City
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Thank you for the information about the passenger train, I'd never heard about it before. A good friend of mine used to work NX-13 back in the New Haven days and he would often run a short train to a heating oil company just west of the state line in Millerton, New York. It's amazing how little is left of the line west of Canaan now, the road bed is almost completely eroded away west of the Housatonic River crossing.
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