Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
essarily minor details. Use the following information to help you
plan a wonderful, scenic rail journey, but check everything with
an Amtrak or VIA Rail reservations agent or a knowledgeable
travel agent before your plans are set in concrete.
Amtrak
Northeast Corridor Trains
Springfield, MA-Washington, DC
Stops:
Hartford, New Haven, New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore
Frequency:
Several times a day in each direction
(some connect in New Haven)
Duration:
7 hours
Equipment:
Amfleet coaches, business class, quiet
car (some trains), cafe car
This is a busy route with trains operating fairly often during the
day. Going southbound, the train crosses the Connecticut River
after leaving Springfield and runs through some very attractive
areas of rural Connecticut. In the summertime you'll see entire
fields of tobacco covered by some humidity-raising material that
looks like white cheesecloth. The tobacco is a special variety used
for cigar wrappers. Hartford's railroad station has had a face-
lift and now looks much the way it did around the turn of the
century. The gold-domed State Capitol is on the left just as you
leave the station. The track from Springfield to New Haven has
not yet been electrified, so southbound trains change their die-
sel-electric locomotives for all-electric ones there. New Haven is
also the home of Yale University. From here to New York you're
sometimes within sight of the ocean—actually, it's Long Island
Sound. Once you reach Bridgeport, you'll be passing through
communities where lots of people commute to work in New York
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