My MTH Premier model (20-3148-2) of New Haven #3400, a USRA 0-8-0 switcher with PS2 and scale wheels (no traction tires) ran with a short train on my 10’-by-5’ layout this week. The locomotive was listed in the 2005 Volume 1 Catalog at MSRP $599.95.
#3400 was one of thirty-five Y-3 class USRA 0-8-0 heavy switchers built by Alco for the New Haven Railroad between 1920 and 1923.
The train includes New Haven Dairy refrigerated milk car GICX300 and New Haven caboose C-665. I’ve searched for years without success for information about the milk car and dairy. I was contacted last week by forum member @Farmall-Joe who informed me of the dairy’s location on Hazel Street in New Haven on the “Canal Line” of the New Haven Railroad, so I visited the site this week. Although the dairy has been gone for a long time, a few rails still remain there on the roadbed of the Canal Line which originated as the 78-mile Farmington Canal in 1822 and was later filled-in to become the New Haven & Northampton Railroad before being absorbed by the NYNH&HRR in 1887. Milk was delivered to the dairy from Amston, Connecticut via the New Haven’s Air-Line and Canal Line. On my layout, the milk car is hauled by #3400.
MELGAR
