The Connecticut Company’s 1920 map places New Haven and the coast within a dense statewide transport network.
Evidence, credit & reuse: Public domain in the United States; Commons PD-US-expired / PD-scan. Commons catalog warns that Shore Line Electric Railway service was suspended from 1919 to 1923 despite its depiction here. Treat the scan as a published network depiction, not an audited operating schedule. Resized and WebP compressed only; no historical content added, retouched or removed.
Source: The Matthews Northrup Works, Buffalo, New York; Connecticut Historical Society (now Connecticut Museum of Culture and History), object 16372; Wikimedia Commons
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The Connecticut Company’s 1920 map places New Haven and the coast within a dense statewide transport network. The title explicitly includes connections. A line appearing here should not automatically be captioned as a Connecticut Company route or as operating throughout 1920.
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Silent Grounds Collective, New Haven & West Haven Trolleys, SGC-TR-019, TR-005, “Connecticut Company system and connections, 1920.” Source: The Matthews Northrup Works, Buffalo, New York; Connecticut Historical Society (now Connecticut Museum of Culture and History), object 16372; Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1920_Map_of_the_Connecticut_Company_System_and_Connections.jpg. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.