Documented Tunnels of the New Haven Region
A collection of documented history, dated images and original record links. Photographs available only at their publishers are labeled separately from locally included images. Unknown dates and conflicting accounts remain visible.

id: ED086-S01
title: Amtrak Infrastructure Asset Line Plan, FY2020–2024
kind: Sources & research leads
date: See individual source date
institution: Documented Tunnels of the New Haven Region
summary: Printed p128: East Haven Tunnel dimensions, 1893 asset date and milepost.
url: https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/public/documents/corporate/businessplanning/Amtrak-Infrastructure-Asset-Line-Plan-FY20-24.pdf
credit: Amtrak Infrastructure Asset Line Plan, FY2020–2024
notes: Linked source. The collection provides an original historical summary; the complete record remains with its repository.
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id: ED086-S02
title: Library of Congress: East Haven Tunnel, 1977
kind: Sources & research leads
date: See individual source date
institution: Documented Tunnels of the New Haven Region
summary: Jack E. Boucher, HAER CT-11; survey milepost 77.00.
url: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ct0338.photos.024123p/
credit: Library of Congress: East Haven Tunnel, 1977
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id: ED086-S03
title: CTDOT: Heroes Tunnel project
kind: Sources & research leads
date: See individual source date
institution: Documented Tunnels of the New Haven Region
summary: 1949 construction, approximate tube lengths; naming year differs from legislative record.
url: https://portal.ct.gov/heroestunnel?language=en_US
credit: CTDOT: Heroes Tunnel project
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id: ED086-S04
title: Connecticut Public Act 04-143
kind: Sources & research leads
date: See individual source date
institution: Documented Tunnels of the New Haven Region
summary: Section 2 amends 2003 Public Act 03-115 from Hero’s to Heroes Tunnel.
url: https://www.cga.ct.gov/2004/act/Pa/2004PA-00143-R00HB-05031-PA.htm
credit: Connecticut Public Act 04-143
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id: ED086-S05
title: New Haven Farmington Canal Greenway plan, 2004
kind: Sources & research leads
date: See individual source date
institution: Documented Tunnels of the New Haven Region
summary: Printed FCL p15: below-grade alignment and Whitney–Temple tunnel.
url: https://www.newhavenct.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/2282/637744209428630000
credit: New Haven Farmington Canal Greenway plan, 2004
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id: ED086-S06
title: New Haven Hospital annual report, 1899
kind: Sources & research leads
date: See individual source date
institution: Documented Tunnels of the New Haven Region
summary: Specific connection between Bronson and maternity wards; not evidence of a regional network.
url: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ynhh_annual_reports/126/
credit: New Haven Hospital annual report, 1899
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id: ED-H-HT27
title: 89. East Haven Tunnel, Sec. 4209, MP 77.00
kind: Photographs
date: 1977
institution: Documented Tunnels of the New Haven Region
summary: Aerial view of the railway entering East Haven Tunnel. Jack E. Boucher documented East Haven Tunnel in 1977 for a federal survey of the Northeast Railroad Corridor.
url: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ct0338.photos.024123p/
credit: Jack E. Boucher / Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, HAER CT-11
notes: Call number HAER CONN,5-NEWHA,37--89. East Haven is separate from West Haven. Catalog milepost differs from modern Amtrak inventory. Not a highway tunnel; visible HAER CT-11-89 identifier matches. Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: no known restrictions on U.S. Government image; LOC advisory: government-created images have no known restrictions; copied images may be restricted. This photograph is credited to Boucher in the 1977 federal survey.
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id: ED-H-HT28
title: Heroes Tunnel
kind: Photographs
date: January 28, 2007
institution: Documented Tunnels of the New Haven Region
summary: Roadway portals of Heroes Tunnel with vehicles. A 2007 photograph shows the Route 15 tunnel through West Rock, opened in 1949.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heroes_Tunnel.jpg
credit: Andrew Ciscel / Wikimedia Commons; original Flickr photo
notes: Naming chronology: 2003 act, spelling corrected 2004. Current CTDOT web page's 2001 date conflicts with primary legislative evidence. Attribute/share alike for adaptations. Highway tunnel; distinguish from nearby railway tunnel records. Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: CC BY-SA 2.0; Commons Flickr license review passed July 5, 2007.
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external_image_url: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Heroes_Tunnel.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled
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id: ED-H-HT29
title: Northeast Railroad Corridor, HAER CT-11 photograph captions
kind: Sources & research leads
date: Includes 1977 photographs; caption compilation date unspecified
institution: Documented Tunnels of the New Haven Region
summary: The caption sheet links East Haven Tunnel to numbered engineering photographs, showing how an archive preserves provenance.
url: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ct0338/
credit: Historic American Engineering Record / Library of Congress
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Eight-page PDF lists CT-11-89 tunnel and CT-11-90 ventilating shaft. Separate shaft-photo page/direct image not verified. Select document page only after visual inspection. Reuse: government survey documentation; copied-material exception; HAER advisory: no known restrictions on government-created images; copied material may be restricted.
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