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Connecticut minor league baseball team honors New Haven Railroad
Nice to see that the spirit of the beloved New Haven lives on!
Will they be playing against the Altoona Curve, another team with a railroad connection.
“Will they be playing against the Altoona Curve, another team with a railroad connection.”
The Curve is in the Eastern League’s Western Division. New Britain/Hartford is in the East. Don’t know how many interdivisional games each EL team plays or if they play all 11 rivals. Wiki isn’t helping there.
Another Eastern League team, the Reading Phillies (Phila. Phillies affiliate, then as now), had its own RR-themed logo (a 4-4-0 perched atop a script letter R). That logo and the whole rr motif was dumped for a pugilistic ostrich when the R-Phils became the Reading Fightin’ Phils (bad move IMO).
Yes, despite different divisions they will play the Curve several times a year. I wish the Binghamton Mets of the same league, whose playing field is the former DL&W freight house yard and freight station had come up with a salutary name to honor the grounds. But the town was too upset it being a Mets affiliate instead of a Yankee team they never got involved and even after 25 plus years still give lukewarm support for the same reason.
The New Haven lives on in death! Not bad for a “seldom modeled railroad” (as MR put it about 30 years ago) that’s been gone now for 46 years. Consider also that ConnDOT is still painting NH paint schemes on their modern commuter rail equipment, and the 5 railroad/trolley museums in CT that all have ex-NH equipment (or painted in NH colors). The New Haven Railroad Historical & Technical Association is still going strong (the new 2016 calendars and Volume 37 Issue 2 of the magazine just arrived), and we’re getting a lot of support from the model manufacturers with I-4 4-6-2’s, FL9’s, GP9’s, 8600-series coaches all coming soon.
Why? Generally because nothing has ever replaced it and there are some 20 million people currently living in former NH territory. If you’re a modeler or railfan that wants to follow local railroads, what can you turn to? The biggest failure in American business history until Enron (PC), various regionals and shortlines, Amtrak, and some commuter rail operators are about it. CSX has a little nibble of the old NH here and there, but nothing to get excited about (in fact, they are retreating from New England as fast as they can). So what’s to look at, other than the Gone But Not Forgotten New Haven Railroad?
Aw, that’s a grand slam of a name and logo!
Mr. Stokes, I agree.
I had a bare bones Lionel set as a kid (even when little, I had less interest in toy trains than in the real thing). The set’s lone boxcar was a NYNH&H with the McGinnis logo.
A cartoon "goal’ nibbling on a bat? What in the world is a goal?
The proofreader must have been out to lunch …