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Connecticut Whistle-Stops: Greenwich to New Haven
Contributor(s): Grimaldi, Lennie (Author)
ISBN: 0738510033     ISBN-13: 9780738510033
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
OUR PRICE:   $22.49  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: April 2002
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - State & Local - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt)
- Photography | Subjects & Themes - Regional (see Also Travel - Pictorials)
- Travel | Pictorials (see Also Photography - Subjects & Themes - Regional)
Dewey: 974
Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6.32" W x 9.74" (0.65 lbs) 128 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - New England
- Geographic Orientation - Connecticut
 
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Publisher Description:
Richly illustrated, Connecticut Whistle Stops: Greenwich to New Haven tells the fascinating history of a rail line and the communities it serves. The motto of the state of Connecticut is Qui Transtulit Sustenet, which translates loosely from the Latin as "He who commutes thrives." The state was founded by commuters of a sort: itinerant preachers looking for congregations. Much later, when the railroads finally came along, the state bloomed. Today, Connecticut's rail line from Greenwich to New Haven is a thriving transportation network for Manhattan-bound commuters. Each workday, roughly 85,000 commuters ride the New Haven Line into Grand Central Terminal in New York.

Profiled in Connecticut Whistle Stops are ten rail communities along the coast. Full of eye-catching photographs, the chapters highlight the impact that the rail line has had on Greenwich, Stamford, Darien, South Norwalk, Westport, Fairfield, Bridgeport, Stratford, Milford, and New Haven. The history offers all the elements of an award-winning movie: laborers building the railroad, America's best-known tycoons financing a rail monopoly and then running it into the ground, bankruptcy, and rebirth.

Contributor Bio(s): Grimaldi, Lennie: - Lennie Grimaldi is the author of three previous books and hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles. For Connecticut Whistle Stops, he sought the input of historians, commuters, travelers, and train buffs who love the romance of Connecticut's legendary line. He carefully weaves this knowledge into his own obvious love of coastal Connecticut, making sure that readers can see, savor, and assimilate it all.