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Number 2 with the gold star number plate c. 1930's.

Number 2, "Mt. Nebo", was a Baldwin "gold star" built in 1879 and scrapped around 1935.

Number 3 was built by Baldwin in 1884 and sold in 1935 to Case Brothers.

Number 4 was built by Baldwin in 1914 and scrapped in 1947. It is out of service.

CASE BROTHERS

Operated a paper mill in East Hartford

Number 3 was South Manchester No. 3 purchased in 1935. Case Brothers had purchased South Manchester No. 2 around 1915 and scrapped it when it purchased Number 3. New Haven box car 71212 was owned by Case.

BRANFORD STEAM RAILROAD

Since 1914 the Branford Steam Railroad served the New Haven Trap Rock Co. The quarry railroad had about six to nine miles of track.

Number 1 was a 4-6-0 from the Lake Shore & Michigan Central, here derelict in 1932.

The 0-4-0T Number 27 built by Baldwin in 1888 was a derelict at Branford in this October 29, 1933 photo.

Porter built Number 2 was photographed in 1932.

Number 43 was still in use in this 1956 photo.

Number 3 at Pine Orchard (Branford) in 1972.

PONEMAH MILLS

This mill railroad in Taftville purchased in 1895 one of the earliest electric locomotives built by General Electric. The historic "Black Maria" (nickname) has been preserved.

This simple Ponemah Mill locomotive was built in 1900.

LATHROP & SHEA

The Lathrop & Shea Company of New Haven, CT was a railroad construction contractor. Numbers 501, 502, and 510, all 0-6-0's, are in the Boston & Maine yards in Boston after being used to construct the B&M's Boston hump yard.

CHAS. PFIZER & CO.