Leroy Y. Beaujon Railroad Collection

The Leroy Y. Beaujon Railroad Collection consists of payroll vouchers and paychecks, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, reports, maps and plans, photocopies, newspaper clippings, and research material related to the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, the Central New England Railway (CNE) and its predecessor companies, including the Philadelphia, Reading & New England Railroad, the Hartford and Connecticut Western Railroad, the Newburgh, Dutchess & Connecticut Railroad, the Poughkeepsie & Eastern Railway; the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, and the Rhinebeck & Connecticut Railroad.

The Central New England Railway, which ran from eastern New York through western and parts of central Connecticut and into southern Massachusetts, was absorbed by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad in 1927. Also included is a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, documents, and photographs with information about the Housatonic Railroad and the Canaan, Connecticut, railroad station, which was the victim of arson in 2001. These materials were gathered by Mr. Beaujon, a historian of the railroad lines of western Connecticut.

The collection also includes 483 public timetables, from 1892 to 1968, from the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad of the western region of the system ("Lines West"), with one timetable, from 1969, of Penn Central, New Haven Division. Also includes are 143 employee timetables, from 1915 to 1969, of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad's western division, which included the former Central New England Railway lines.

An addition to the collection in 2013 includes timetables, photographs, reports, maps and plans, photocopies, newspaper clippings, and research material.

An addition to the collection in 2014 includes photocopies, notes, newpaper, newspaper clippings, correspondence (emails), timetables, flyers, printouts from webpages, most with information about the possible resumption of train service on the Berkshire line (2010-2014).

Accession 2015-0044 consists of correspondence between Mr. Beaujon and many noted railroad historians, writers and enthusiasts, including Robert Adams, Eugene Connelly, Allan Copeland, Guy Dunscomb, Robert Estabrook, James Larson, Robert Lord, Carleton Mabee, William McDermott, Austin McEntee, William and Philip Metscher, Robert Nimke, David Peters, Doug Rice, Bernard Rudberg, Charles Smith (New York Central Railroad Historical Society), J. W. Swanberg, Thomas Taber III, and William Uricchio of the University of Connecticut Libraries.

Accession 2015-0104 consists of a copy of a locomotive roster, compiled by Mr. Beaujon, of all engines of the Central New England Railway and its predecessor lines. Also included is approximately 150 photographic prints of CNE locomotives.