NEW YORK NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD RAILROAD LANTERN A & W COMPANY N.Y.N.H.&H. RR 1888 for Sale

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NEW YORK NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD RAILROAD LANTERN A & W COMPANY N.Y.N.H.&H. RR 1888 For Sale

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NEW YORK NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD RAILROAD LANTERN A & W COMPANY N.Y.N.H.&H. RR 1888:
$425.00

NEW YORK NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD RAILROAD

\"NEW HAVEN\"

This RARE Vintage piece of Railroad History, made by THE ADAMS AND WESTLAKE COMPANY for the NEW YORK NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD RAILROAD.This BEE HIVE style, Ratchet down globe retainer lantern is marked THE ADAMS & WESTLAKE COMPANY CHICAGO NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA N.Y.N.H & H.R.R. PAT. APR. 24, 1888 last date SEPT. 21, 1897. The brass burner is marked E. MILLER & CO. MERIDEN, CT. MADE IN U.S.A. and twist-off fount are in good working condition. The Corning clear glass globe isembossed NYNH&HRR, PAT\'T DEC 30, 1902 NO 717501,globe has strong marks, No cracks, some small flea chips around rims. Please view photos and Email with questions. Thanks for looking.

New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad5 languagesToolsFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaNew York, New Haven and Hartford RailroadWikimedia| ©OpenStreetMapSystem map, 1918 (not including its temporary acquisition of theNY&OW)A New Haven Railroad train in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1962OverviewHeadquartersNew Haven, ConnecticutReporting markNHLocale

Connecticut
Massachusetts
New York
Rhode Island

Dates of operationJuly 24, 1872–December 31, 1968SuccessorPenn Central Transportation CompanyTechnicalTrack gauge4ft8+1⁄2in(1,435mm)standard gaugeLength2,133 miles (3,433 kilometers)NH system map

TheNew York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad(reporting markNH), commonly known asThe Consolidated, or simply as theNew Haven, was a railroad that operated principally in theNew Englandregion of the United States from 1872 to December 31, 1968. Founded by the merger of theNew York and New HavenandHartford and New Havenrailroads, the company had near-total dominance of railroad traffic in Southern New England for the first half of the 20th century.

Beginning in the 1890s and accelerating in 1903, New York bankerJ. P. Morgansought to monopolize New England transportation by arranging the NH\'s acquisition of 50 companies, including other railroads and steamship lines, and building a network of electrified trolley lines that provided interurban transportation for all of southern New England. By 1912, the New Haven operated more than 2,000 miles (3,200km) of track, with 120,000 employees, and practically monopolized traffic in a wide swath from Boston to New York City.

This quest for monopoly angeredProgressive Erareformers, alienated public opinion, raised the cost of acquiring other companies and increased the railroad\'s construction costs. The company\'s debt soared from $14 million in 1903 to $242 million in 1913, while the advent of automobiles, trucks and buses reduced its profits. Also in 1913, the federal government filed an antitrust lawsuit that forced the NH to divest its trolley systems.[1]

The line became bankrupt in 1935. It emerged from bankruptcy, albeit reduced in scope, in 1947, only to go bankrupt again in 1961. In 1969, its rail assets were merged with thePenn Centralsystem,[2]formed a year earlier by the merger of theNew York Central RailroadandPennsylvania Railroad. Already a poorly-conceived merger, Penn Central proceeded to go bankrupt in 1970, becoming the largest U.S. bankruptcy until theEnron Corporationsuperseded it in 2001. The remnants of the system now compriseMetro-North Railroad\'sNew Haven Line, much of the northern leg ofAmtrak\'sNortheast Corridor,Connecticut\'sShore Line EastandHartford Line, parts of theMBTA, and numerous freight operators such asCSXand theProvidence and Worcester Railroad. The majority of the surviving system is now owned publicly by the states ofConnecticut,Rhode Island, andMassachusetts, with other surviving segments owned by freight railroads; many abandoned lines have been converted intorail trails.