The Canal Line Railroad in Connecticut in Connecticut / Massachusetts

by Craig S. O'Connell

The Abandonment Summary: 1937 - 1991

Some historians have suggested that the closing of the 6.8.mile line between High Street Jct. and West Simsbury (1937) as well as the shorter 1.2 mile line from High Street Jct. to Collinsville (1938) were part of New Haven's Canal Line. However, these two were on the Central New England Railway (CNE) and not the Canal Line. Both the CNE and the New Haven Farmington to New Hartford Branch went through Collinsville and each had their own stations. The little piece between West Simsbury and Simsbury was also CNE track, but, by the time it was abandoned, it wasn't much more than a storage track for blasting powder made at Ensign Bickford Company in Simsbury.

Many thanks to Jason Davis and George Pearson.

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