. Railway age . lso to Norwich to connect with the road via Worcester. This Ixing Island route, having the longest rail line and the shortest water line, had the advantage oyer all otliers in iK)lnt of time required. In this respivt. It had the same advantage over the Stonlngton route that the Stonlngton route had over the Providence route. This Long Island line was very popular. was much used for three years and carried the United Statf« mrii Febhuaby 21, 1908. THE RAILROAD GAZETTE. 257 to Boston, but it was discontinued in 1847 on tlie completion of theNew Yor]{, New Haven & Hartford Railroa
. Railway age . lso to Norwich to connect with the road via Worcester. This Ixing Island route, having the longest rail line and the shortest water line, had the advantage oyer all otliers in iK)lnt of time required. In this respivt. It had the same advantage over the Stonlngton route that the Stonlngton route had over the Providence route. This Long Island line was very popular. was much used for three years and carried the United Statf« mrii Febhuaby 21, 1908. THE RAILROAD GAZETTE. 257 to Boston, but it was discontinued in 1847 on tlie completion of theNew Yor]{, New Haven & Hartford Railroad and the opening ofthe Fall River Line. The Long Island route was a Vanderbllt In-terest, and he also had control of the Norwich route. The newsteamer Atlantic, which made its first trip from Norwich to NewYork, August, 1846, was a vessel 320 ft. long, 1,400 tons, and wasdescribed in Hunts Merchantu Magazine of that year (v ].j:323) asthe property of the Norwich & Worcester Railroad & Steamboat Co,. Steamship Railroad. It was said to bo the arnie of perferlion. the lliicst as well as thelargest ever built iu America, The Fall River Line (the Bay State Steamboat Co.) commencedbusiness in May. 1847. running in connection with the Old ColonyRailroad, which had been opened a few months before giving athrough line from Fall River to Boston. The early opening of thesteamboat line to complete the service to New Vork was broughtabout in the now well known manner of having the steamboatcompany well represented on the board of the railroad various times during this early period difficulties arose overthe division of proceeds between the railroads and the contractingsteamship companies. In ISGfl the future was andthe difficulty settled for the Norwich &Worcester Railroad Company through thecompany itself taking a large interest in theoiganization of the Norwich & New York■Pi-ansportation Company. In 1860 the Stonington Railroad was ex-tended to wh
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