Some good links are:
HRRC List - Yahoo group a place to exchange email, chat and swap files about the Housy
NE Rails -Yahoo group a place to exchange email about NE Railroading
Metro North -Yahoo group a place to find occasional news, especially about the Beacon Line
Western Mass Rails, a fan-site (a lot of pop-ups)
Western Mass Rails R Us focuses on the Boston Line
NERAIL Photo page A photo resource of NE Rail action
Berkshire Hills Hobby Supply, Canaan, CT(email link)
Tom's Trains, good online model RR supplier!
NMRA World Directory of Rail Sites
Green Mountain Railroad - the webmaster works here
Bellows Falls, VT Web Cam (GMRC, NEC & Guilford)
NMRO (The National Militant Railfan Organization)
Peters Railroad Museum a "by appointment" rail museum in Wallingford, CT
Listen to Albany Area Railroad Radio
- enter http://24.194.111.19:8080 in Windows Media Player.
Listen to CSX, CP, Guilford, and Vermont Rail System (repeaterized)
(as of 1/5/07)
other Housatonic RR Sites to check out:
Wikipedia Article about the Housatonic RR
Chuck Petlick's HRR homepage
Jon Radder's Housy Railfan site
A couple of sites on the internet to find additional HRR:
A great site to look up pictures of the old railroad stations is:
Another site to look up pictures of the old HRR engines is:
Some print resources:
Railpace June 1985 pg. 30 "The New Housatonic RR"
Railpace Magazine August 1993 pg 14-23 includes a good map guide to railfanning.
Railpace Magazine regularly carries news on the Housatonic
Railfan and RailRoad Magazine February 1994 pg 49-58 "The Reborn Housatonic"
Trains October 1994 - pgs. 66-69 "The New Housatonic"
Railroad and Railfan July 2001 pgs. 34& 35 "Averting a Disaster at Belspring Siding" in 1950's.
Model Railroader May 2003 pgs.88-90 "New England in a (big) Bedroom"
Trains May 2003 pgs. 58-65 "Housatonic Railroad" (railroad blueprint)
A good, new resource:
Trackside New England 2000: A field guide to the region's railways by Mike Clements
110 pages, softcover, spiral bound. Includes for all New England railroads, tourist lines and museums: Brief history, traffic, radio frequencies, lines owned and/or operated, trackage rights, engineering landmarks, locomotive, freight and passenger car rosters, motive power assignments, connecting industrial lines. Also includes regional rail maps with details of complex rail centers, listing news sources (print, internet, organizations), tables of towers, roundhouses, rail-trails, old freight cars and a guide to the better places to watch and photograph trains. Already features some minor updates and corrections.
Price: $20.00 postpaid Order a copy directly from the author at:
Mike Clements 7 Lothian Road #12 Brighton, MA 02135