| | New Haven Railroad Historical Events |
| | Date | | Category | | Event |
| | 3/18/1968 | | Milestone | Heavy rains cause severe flooding on the Boston Division of the NHRR: Branches out of service, washouts, landslides and |
| | one bridge washed away (35.79 Blackstone River just west of Franklin Jct.). |
| | 3/30/1968 | | Abandonment | Line from Laurel to Old Saybrook abandoned. |
| | 3/6/1974 | | Milestone | MTA and CTA announce will purchase 100 more "Cosmopolitan" MU cars to replace last of old New Haven equipment in |
| | electrified territory. (NYT) |
| | 3/17/1979 | | Milestone | A fire, started by arsonists, destroys the Bridgeport, CT railroad station. The station was built in 1906. |
| | 3/1/1980 | | Milestone | Howard Shirley Palmer, the longest serving President of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, died at |
| | his home in New Haven, CT at age 95. (Exact date in March undetermined.) |
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