Fixing Your Branch Line: Waterbury Branch

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Since I covered my home railroad for the first episode of this series, I might as well cover the LIRR's sister railroad just over the Long Island Sound: Metro North. After reviewing multiple branch lines, I ultimately decided to choose the Waterbury branch due to its unique history, rolling stock assignments, and having the most opportunities for improvement. This branch is also one of the few examples of where it's actively being improved in recent months due to newly acquired funding, so it will be interesting to see this branch grow over the next few years.
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SPV2000 cab leading - By Jon-Lewis - spv2000 as cab cars and coaches, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
CDOT GP40 - By Jon-Lewis - CDOT 6699 GP40-2H with SPV2000 coaches, June 2003, Waterbury, CT, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
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Beacon Falls station in September 2018 - By Pi.1415926535 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
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Ansonia station - By Mitchazenia - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
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American Idle - RKVC
Fractal of Light - Chris Haugen
Bright Eyed Blues - Unicorn Heads
Modern Attempt - TrackTribe
Exhale - Jeremy Blake
Down The Street Blues - Unicorn Heads

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10 июн 2022

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@anthonykukla5384 Год назад

I almost died of laughter when he said "Look at this station in this quaint little town..."

@chrismercaldo7604 2 года назад

I live right along the Waterbury line and that’s what sparked my interest in trains as a kid. The biggest issue to me with the line is the lack of ridership. There’s just not enough reason to take the train if you live along that branch line right now. Certainly connections to New York and Hartford would help but I actually think a new station which serves the Sikorsky/Lockheed Martin aircraft plant would give the greatest impact. If they built a station across the river from the factory in Milford, they could utilize the existing footpath and pedestrian access the bridge near the factory offers to connect the factory and the station. It would allow people to easily commute to work by train and increase ridership, giving the line a greater purpose in the network. Connecting the population centers along the coastline to Sikorsky seems to be a huge opportunity for Metro-North. Maybe my proximity to the line makes it an obvious idea for me but I’m surprised this hasn’t been discussed anywhere yet to my knowledge

@daviiiid.r

As someone who grew up on the PV line (in NJ but still) thank you for recognizing us, the saddest line on NJT (in my opinion)

@cathiwim Год назад

I grew up here! Went to Naugatuck High School and lived in Beacon Falls! It only takes 30 minutes todrive the entire route! For a reward for getting on the honor roll in 1968, my dad took me on the train from Naugatuck to NYC. He grew up in Brooklyn, and we spent an entire day in the city! Its the only time in my life I’ve actually been there!!

@DC4260Productions 2 года назад

I've learnt an awful lot about the branch thanks to this video. Incidentally I think it's silly that the original Waterbury station building isn't used by trains anymore. It's a shame that neither Danbury nor Waterbury are included on the New York to New Haven route in Train Simulator, yet the New Canaan branch is included.

@StephenCarlBaldwin 2 года назад

Great presentation. I learned a lot. I'm a fan of the Pascack Valley Line -- they have recently been running a GP40P heritage unit n CNJ livery, making for a trip back in time!

@roycethefox

I live north of the danbury branch- The Housatonic Railroad Company currently operates between the danbury station, all the way up to pittsfield, MA. I sometimes see them moving around cars, though I've actually been noticing them more frequently.

@MosheFeder

As a new resident of Naugatuck who is a longtime railfan, I naturally take a great interest in the line's past, present, and future. So your excellent video couldn’t have been more satisfying to me if you'd known I was waiting for something like it.

@ScottPalmer-mp1we Год назад

If anything was short-sighted, it was the abandonment of the Meriden & Waterbury Railroad (though some of the topography was uncooperative). This could have been a nice east-west route roughly through part of the median of our rectangular state. There is a piece of that old route with old tracks still in place through Baldwin Park in Meriden.

@Token_Nerd Год назад

Just electrify all of Metro North already. Ned Lamont we're watching.

@apr859 Год назад

The station resturant at naugatuck is actually great

@Agustin01 Год назад

I'm from Haverstraw and damn seeing the alignment just being built on is sad. They'll probably never restore service, My neighbor (he was born in the 1910s) as a child went to Haverstraw High School and said he had classmates that came from Suffern and Spring Valley by train. Crazy to think that I got to hear these story's first hand that now seem like fair distant tales. Great video and I look forward to see your alignment!

@montyb10009 Год назад

I rode this train all of the time in the early 80s when I lived in Ansonia.

@Fowlware 2 года назад

this video made a good watch party thanks for this

@kevinwong6588 Год назад

The Waterbury and Danbury branches have the lowest local fares on Metro-North: $2.50. On the New Haven main line and New Canaan branch, base local fare is $2.75 and local intermediate fare in NY State is $3 (outside Manhattan).

@jquas1965 Год назад

I’d love to see Waterbury or Hartford to Providence.

@kyle.sterritt 2 года назад

If I had to choose one it would be from my home state of Massachusetts and were talking about MBTA’s Newburyport/Rockport Line. This branch always has bridge problems and derailments, Bridges being rebuilt cause the branch half the line to be shut down for periods of time

@dimitrilensflareabrams2893 Год назад

One other thing that would help is the return of industries in the heart of downtowns along that line. Waterbury, Ansonia, Derby, Naugatuck and a lot of other places used to be huge manufacturing towns. Sucks that now they're just ghosts of their former selves.

@WeatheredRails Год назад

I like the solutions, but there’s one thing involved that may scratch all of that. Money. To put in overhead wires plus a 2nd track. It would be problematic and almost useless, speaking that the ridership numbers do not support more trains and the need for a 2nd track. I can see bigger sidings, since you have P&W CT-2. Which works O&G, and Pan Am Railways PL-1. Which rarely runs to Derby to interchange with the Housatonic Railroad. The time I see a double track main fit is when both freight and Passenger are both incorporated. So that passenger trains can maneuver around freight that might be holding up a part of the line, this includes local freight and if through freight was established like CR NHSE/SENH which ran from New Haven to Selkirk. That’s when a double track main would be needed