| | New Haven Railroad Historical Events |
| | Date | | Category | | Event |
| | 9/18/1947 | | 1st Bankruptcy | Trusteeship of NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD RAILROAD ended when Federal Court confirmed Plan of |
| | Reorganization - returned to private ownership. |
| | 9/18/1947 | | Abandonment | Wood River Branch in Rhode Island abandoned. |
| | 9/18/1947 | | 1st Bankruptcy | OLD COLONY RAILROAD, HARTFORD & CONNECTICUT WESTERN RAILROAD, PROVIDENCE WARREN & |
| | BRISTOL RAILROAD - those segments not abandoned acquired by NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD |
| | 9/11/1949 | | End of Service | Last run of The East Wind from Bangor, Maine, to Penn Station, New York; begins running to Grand Central in 1950 season. |
| | 9/25/1949 | | End of Service | New Haven discontinues passenger service between Taunton and Fall River. |
| | 9/1/1958 | | End of Service | The New Haven Railroad discontinues all passenger service between Hartford and Blackstone. (act. ca. 4/27/58 from storm |
| | damage! date is date of A-sheet) |
| | 9/1/1958 | | End of Service | Last trips of the Night Cape Codder and the weekend Neptune between Grand Central and Woods Hole/Hyannis; replaced by |
| | bus for 1959 season; Neptune is revived in 1960. (tt) |
| | 9/5/1958 | | End of Service | Last run of New Haven Railroad passenger service between Boston and Taunton, New Bedford and Fall River via Stoughton, |
| | which had refused to join Old Colony subsidy plan; service cut back to Stoughton, Mass. |
| | 9/7/1958 | | End of Service | Last trip of Day Cape Codder between Grand Central and Woods Hole/Hyannis; later revived in 1960. |
| | 9/8/1976 | | End of Service | Last two Amtrak United Aircraft "TurboTrain" sets make last revenue run New York-Boston because of mechanical problems. |
| | (PTJ) |
| | 9/9/1976 | | Opening of Service | Amtrak introduces the Clamdigger, New Haven-Providence local. |
| | 9/11/1988 | | Milestone | George Alpert, the last president of the New Haven Railroad died at the age of 90 at his home in Cohasset, MA. He was |
| | president of the New Haven Railroad from 1956 to 1961 when the carrier went into bankruptcy. Several months after he left |
| | the railroad, the Interstate Commerce Commission made public its opinion that primarily passenger railroads, such as the |
| | New Haven, must have federal subsidies to exist. This view had long been held by Alpert and he had testified several times |
| | before the ICC on the subject. Prior to his tenure with the New Haven Railroad, Alpert was a founder of Brandeis University |
| | and its first chairman from 1946 to 1954. Born in Boston, Alpert graduated from Boston University Law School in 1918 and |
| | was first assistant district attorney for Suffolk County from 1924 to 1927. |
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