Friends of Cedar Hill Yard

Friends of Cedar Hill Yard The Friends of Cedar Hill yard is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundation. with a mission and dedication to the Cedar Hill Yard restoration project.

Friends of Cedar Hill Yard is being organized at a (501c) nonprofit foundation. The Friends of Cedar Hill yard is Dedicated to the preservation, and restoration of the yard to operating condition the Western Hump classification yard at Cedar Hill yard. Cedar Hill yard started back in 1870 with the New Haven, Middletown and Willimantic RR and this was the starting point of NYNH&H'S massive Cedar Hill yard. The Friends of Cedar Hill yard mission is to create the Cedar Hill yard state park and operational railroad museum. Since its creation in 2022 the Friend's of Cedar Hill yard have complete numerous project from track clearing on the western hump to reestablish the full trail system of 3.5 miles of the Tidal Marsh trail that was abandoned back in 2016 by the North Hiking trail associate and the friend's of Cedar Hill yard are going on second year of maintaining the trail system since our takeover back in 2022 of the trail system in Cader Hill yard and brush clearing is on going of all remaining building on the western hump yard:

Yard office,
3 retarder tower A-C
car repair shop or building 2044. And with the Friend's own resources and their own volunteer. Have led the way on all the projects. The Friends of Cader Hill yard will honor our commitment to being life back to the property and to honor the heritage of the New York , New Haven & Hartford Railroad

email us: [email protected]

And on that notes: We are making our way back to the roundhouse Notes: 1948 NEW HAVEN RAILROAD 4-8-2 LOCO #3559 CEDAR H...
09/13/2026

And on that notes:

We are making our way back to the roundhouse

Notes:

1948 NEW HAVEN RAILROAD 4-8-2 LOCO
#3559 CEDAR HILL CT

Official Bored Clarification: ORGANIZATIONAL INDEPENDENCE & CAPITAL STRUCTURE ensure absolute transparency and pr...
09/12/2026

Official Bored Clarification:

ORGANIZATIONAL INDEPENDENCE & CAPITAL STRUCTURE

ensure absolute transparency and prevent any public confusion, the Board of Directors wishes to clarify the structural and funding framework of the upcoming Universal Drive trailhead infrastructure project. The Friends of Cedar Hill Yard Corporation operates as a completely self-sustaining, independent non-profit entity chartered by the State of Connecticut as a Domestic Non-Stock Corporation.

To ensure maximum efficiency and project momentum, our operational blueprint relies exclusively on private capital and independent funding networks.

OurCapital and Funding Infrastructure Enforces the Following Protocols:

Zero Municipal Tax Dependency:

No municipal taxpayer funds or local town budget allocations are requested, utilized, or accepted for our programs.

We are funded strictly through private donations, independent fundraisers, corporate sponsorships, and non-profit grant frameworks.

The Nature of Our Matching Grants:

Our upcoming $10,000 matching grant phase utilizes independent, non-municipal crowdfunding platforms (such as the Sustainable CT Community Match Fund network).

Through this framework, private citizen donations are matched dollar-for-dollar by independent trust funds.

This process is still entirely separate from local municipal budgets.

DefinedOperational Boundaries:

The relationship between our organization and Town, State, or Federal agencies is strictly regulatory.

We coordinate with government agencies exclusively to fulfill mandatory legal obligations, specifically processing land permits, structural inspections, and environmental reviews. While-we highly value cultivating a positive, adjacent relationship with municipal entities to ensure compliance, government agencies are still independent regulatory checkpoints.

The Friends of Cedar Hill Yard Corporation independently raises its own capital, secures its own private contractors, and executes its community-building mission under its own autonomous corporate governance.

Our compliance is verified, our funding is private, and our commitment to community development is still absolute.

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THE EMPIRE: STORIES FROM THE NEW HAVENIt has recently come to our attention, and it must be clarified that the collapse...
09/12/2026

THE EMPIRE:

STORIES FROM THE NEW HAVEN

It has recently come to our attention, and it must be clarified that the collapse of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad was not an overnight failure—it was a decade-long corporate and political gauntlet.

Today, we are officially launching a new historical archive series:

THE EMPIRE.

Moving forward, we will be stepping past standard train photographs to look directly at the boardroom decisions, the financial grids, and the operational shifts that defined the timeline from 1914 until the final curtain dropped on December 31, 1968.

There are fascinating, high-stakes accounts buried in the history books that we are bringing back to light to show exactly why this fallen empire is no longer here today.

To set the proper stage for this series, we look to the words of the press that saw the rise and fall firsthand:

"The New York Times, which had complained about the railroad's premonitions on its front page in 1914, dignified it with an obituary on the editorial page of December 31, 1968, titled:

The New Haven Lives in Death."

This obituary marked the exact moment the New Haven ceased independent operations and was forced into the Penn Central merger.

Over the next few months, we will be analyzing the precise mechanics of this collapse—deconstructing the data line-by-line, from the legislative bottlenecks to the final foreclosure fights.

The archive is open. The history is still unshakeable. Stay tuned as we roll out Chapter 1 of the Empire timeline.

The Cedar Hill yard project is moving full steam ahead . The definition word for today is accountability But we learn w...
09/12/2026

The Cedar Hill yard project is moving full steam ahead .

The definition word for today is accountability 

But we learn when it comes to community engagement that if you can get 30% of your audience to actually support you, you’re actually doing really really well and we’ve actually been told this through legal council that major majority of the people when it comes to these projects really would rather see you failed and actually see you succeed and then the closer you get to your endgame or actually starting the projects the more animosity you’ll get you’ll get people that try to sabotage you that we wanna work with you that will hold funds and a lot of times it’s most reflection of themselves so we’ve realize that as we move forward, we’re gonna always expect a lot more animosity from the opposite side, even though it’s a community base project it’s just the idea of just how the world works .

So we’ve learned to not get upset over with and just kind of embrace it and realize it’s nothing with us personally we just have to make sure when it comes our way we deal with it professionally because that’s what a community based organization dose.

So I’d like to put a positive aspect to it . And we’ve learned that there’s nothing wrong with the ad need to those bases. It’s gonna make things a little bit more exciting because instead of talking about it over a period of time we’re just gonna say this is when it’s gonna start this is who we need sign up here. This is what we need and move it out .

The accountability train is coming and of course, we will hold everybody accountable for their actions . And not only that what we’re going to do is we’re going to request that they state their case in a public forum . 

We feel like that should iron everything out moving forward. We are pouring the foundation to setting the right expectations on how to govern our projects very exciting stuff we feel like we’re moving forward and I’m not no I hope y’all have a great weekend and I will talk to you later 

SS-81
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SS-81

SS 81 was Shore Line Junction: This tower controlled the grade-separated tracks passing over the Air Line, guiding train...
09/12/2026

SS 81 was Shore Line Junction: This tower controlled the grade-separated tracks passing over the Air Line, guiding trains directly into the Maybrook Receiving Yard and the Shore Line Departure Yard inside Cedar Hill.

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2015  Tower A 
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2015  Tower A 

This tower is on the southern side of the westbound yard office 
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This tower is on the southern side of the westbound yard office 

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