Poughkeepsie Bridge Route
- Poughkeepsie Bridge Route
The Poughkeepsie Bridge Route was a passenger train route from Washington, D.C. to Boston, Massachusetts, via Baltimore, Maryland and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
It specifically avoided New York City, due to the lack of a direct crossing in that area, instead passing over the Poughkeepsie Bridge at Poughkeepsie, New York. Another selling point was its Boston terminus at North Station, allowing a direct transfer to Boston and Maine Railroad lines to the north.
The "Federal Express" later used a similar route for several years in the 1910s, but ran via Trenton, New Jersey and New Haven, Connecticut.
The route used the following companies' lines:
*Baltimore and Ohio Railroad - Washington to Philadelphia
*Philadelphia and Reading Railroad - Philadelphia to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (via the North Pennsylvania Railroad)
*Central Railroad of New Jersey - Bethlehem to Easton, Pennsylvania
*Lehigh and Hudson River Railway - Easton to Maybrook, New York
*Central New England and Western Railroad - Maybrook to Simsbury, Connecticut
*New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad - Simsbury to Northampton, Massachusetts (via the New Haven and Northampton Railroad)
*Boston and Maine Railroad - Simsbury to Boston (North Station) (via the former Central Massachusetts Railroad)
The route was only used from 1890 to 1893, after which operating patterns changed. [http://web.archive.org/web/20040509110247/http://www.wayland.ma.us/historical/1085.01+Chapter+4.pdf]
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