- Maybrook Line
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Maybroook Line Overview Type Freight, other non-revenue System Metro-North, Housatonic Railroad Status Metro-North: out-of-Service; Housatonic: active freight Locale Orange, Dutchess, and Putnam counties in New York State; Fairfield and New Haven counties in Connecticut Termini Maybrook, NY
Derby, CTStations 0 Daily ridership 0 Operation Opened ~1904 Technical Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Route map LegendMaybrook, NY Campbel Hall Hudson River Poughkeepsie Manchester Bridge Didell Fishkill Plains Hopewell Junction Newburgh, Dutchess, & Connecticut Railroad Stormville Green Haven Poughquag West Pawling Whaley Lake Holmes West Patterson Towners Harlem Line connection Dykemans Brewster, NY New York–Connecticut state line Mill Plain (Danbury, CT) Danbury Branch connection Hawleyville Newtown Derby, CT The Maybrook Line was a line of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad which connected with its Waterbury Branch in Derby, CT and its Maybrook Yard in Maybrook, NY where it interchanged with other carriers. It was the main east-west freight route of the New Haven until their collapse in 1969.
The portion of the line west of Hopewell Junction has been abandoned and now forms part of the Dutchess Rail Trail. The remainder of the line is owned in New York by Metro-North and in Connecticut by the Housatonic Railroad.
Categories:- Connecticut railroads
- New York railroads
- Defunct New York railroads
- Metro-North Railroad
- New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad lines
- Transportation in Fairfield County, Connecticut
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