![]() ![]() ![]() Today a legacy of the engine changes is that Northeast Regionals have a full crew change (both conductors and engineers replaced) still to this day. Springfield trips before 2000 (when the engine change elimination removed the need for long New Haven stops) were operated as sections of through trains with Boston-bound trains dropping off one or two cars that would continue north (hauled by a second diesel locomotive) to Springfield with the reverse occurring for Washington-bound trains, a couple of cars added during the already longer stop for the engine change. These trains consist of normally two cars (an Amfleet-I and an ex-Metroliner Cab Car) and a P42 Locomotive and connect with through Northeast Regionals from Boston for passengers going south to New York and Washington. All other New Haven to Springfield service since 2000 has consisted of New Haven - Springfield Shuttle Trains. One is the Vermonter, the others are Northeast Regional trains that run through to Springfield. This engine change still occurs for two (three on weekends) Amtrak round-trips that are the through trains up the diesel inland route. Electric locomotives for service into New York, Grand Central initially except for through trains to Washington going to Penn Station until the early 1970s in the Amtrak era when all intercity trains were rerouted there, were swapped for diesel locomotives for all service North and West. From 1914 until 2000, when Amtrak finally electrified the Northeast Corridor all the way to Boston (a project over 80 years in the making that the once-mighty but later too passenger oriented New Haven Railroad never quite managed the financing to complete post-World War I), all through trains had to stop in the station for at least ten minutes to undergo an engine change. New Haven-Union Station is the most important train station in the State of Connecticut. ![]()
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