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Railroad locomotive digital collection



Are you a closet railroad buff?  Do you like images of old steam
locomotives, harkening back to the golden age of railroads?  Well, look no
further.

It is with pleasure that I present to you, my archives colleagues, the
newest digital collection of the University of Connecticut Libraries, "Steam
and Electric Locomotives of the New Haven Railroad" at
http://railroads.uconn.edu/locomotives/.  This website leads you to 460
images of locomotives owned by the New Haven Railroad, the predominant
railroad line in southern New England from 1872 to 1969.  The images in the
digital collection are from the Fred Otto Makowsky Papers, one of many
collections in the Railroad History Archive in the Thomas J. Dodd Research
Center at the University of Connecticut Libraries.  Makowsky, a Fairfield
County, Connecticut, resident, took these photographs of the railroad's
motive equipment from the 1920s to the early 1940s.  The website also
includes information about Makowsky and the New Haven Railroad.  We've
provided a feedback form, so please feel free to let me know what you think.

In creating the digital project we also took this opportunity to revamp the
webpages for the Railroad History Archive.  These are available at
http://railroads.uconn.edu.

Enjoy the ride!

Laura Smith

Laura Katz Smith, CA
Curator for Business, Railroad and Labor Collections
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
University of Connecticut
405 Babbidge Road Unit 1205
Storrs, CT  06269-1205

Telephone: (860)486-2516
Fax: (860)486-4521
Email: Laura.Katz.Smith@uconn.edu

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