Housatonic Railroad Company
Consists of 161 miles of rail linesView Map
- Ashley Falls
- Coltsville
- Great Barrington
- Housatonic
- Lee
- Lenox
- Lenoxdale
- Pittsfield
- Sheffield
- South Lee
- Stockbridge
Connecticut
- Botsford
- Brookfield
- Canaan
- Cornwall Bridge
- Danbury
- Derby Shelton
- Falls Village
- Gaylordsville
- Hawleyville
- Kent
- New Milford
- Newtown
- Stevenson
New York
- Beacon
- Brewster
- Fishkill
- Hopewell Junction
| Information may be incomplete. Started compiling from various news sources and web sites July 2009. |
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| DATE | TOWN | DERAILMENT / EVENT | SOURCE |
Excel files: 1993 1994 1995 1996
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Year-by-year FRA files of HRRC derailments. The FRA records only seem to run from 1993 to 2009. Not including the three derailments from 2010, there have been 27 derailments on the HRRC lines in this period. The .xls files have a lot of information: date, time, milepost, station and so forth. NOTE: narrative accounts of the derailments begin at column DS and may continue to subsequent columns.
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Federal Railway Administration | |
| August 12, 2011 | Stockbridge, MA | STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. (WWLP) - At least 12 rail cars of a 2,000 foot-long freight train tipped over after a derailment in Stockbridge Friday night. |
22 News The Berkshire Eagle |
| May 19, 2011 | Canaan, CT | Derailed traine in north Canaan | Lakeville Journal Facebook photo album |
May 14, 2010 |
New Milford, CT |
Train derails carrying trash. “It’s a simple kind of insignificant event,” said Mr. Rodriguez[HRCC VP] . “We’re going to leave it there. Our crew will be there on Monday morning to get it back on the track.” |
MSNBC Second Train Derailment in Three Days Litchfield County Times Train Derails in New Milford NewsTimes Train derails at scenic road intersection in New Milford |
| April 7, 2010 | Pittsfield, MA |
Berm washes out leaving tracks without support. Two of the river neighbors headed up the tracks in the direction of the whistle. They flagged down the train... the engineers agreed, it would not make it over those tracks. |
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March 29, 2010 |
South Lee, MA |
7 car derailment. Two freight cars tipped into the Housatonic River |
Berkshire Eagle |
| Jan 27, 2010 | New Milford, CT | Railway crossing potholes prove a headache. *See info on Hawleyville track condition |
NewsTimes |
| July 31, 2009 | Pittsfield, MA | 6 car derailment at GE Housatonic nx12 not having a good day at the same spot 3 years ago |
NeRail Photos 1 NeRail Photos 2 |
July 14, 2009 |
West Cornwall, MA |
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| June 25, 2009 August 14, 2009 |
 Photo courtesy T Laslo |
Track conditions in Hawleyville |
HEAT site for pictures |
| Berkshire Environmental Action Team, BEAT, has requested accident record of HRRC, "BEAT is extremely concerned about potential problems with the Housatonic Railroad Company (HRRC). In the past ten years there have been at least four accidents on HRRC tracks that would have resulted in a spill into the river if the cars had been tank cars carrying a liquid and had ruptured. As part of the MEPA process, BEAT would like a detailed accident record for HRRC for the last 10 years entered into the public record." | |||
| July 27, 2004 | Stockbridge, MA | 3 car derailment. At around 1:20 am, local residents heard a loud bang as train's last 3 cars left the tracks. | WCTRR site |
| April 4, 2002 | New Milford, CT | Seven car derailment carrying lumber and cooking oil | WCTRR site |
| December 3, 2001 | Lee, MA | "Nine derailed freight cards - two crashinging into the Housatonic River. Seven others... tipped on their sides or leaning precariously alongside the mangled train tracks, just north of Schweitzer-Mauduit's Columbia Mill." | Berkshire Eagle Staff Story by Ellen G. Lahr |
| Aguust 29, 1987 | Cornwall, CT | Passenger car derailed with 75 sightseers aboard. Noone was hurt. | Lakeville Journal. Story by Robert Cummings |
