Waterbury Union Station & Clock Tower
A selected, source-based research collection for New Haven and Fairfield counties. Includes credited photographs where reusable images were located, historical interpretation and links to supporting records. It is a growing inventory, not an exhaustive survey. Photographs retain their individual dates and reuse terms; images do not establish present access conditions.

id: CT061-S01
title: Waterbury Union Station: architecture and bibliography
kind: Sources & research leads
date: Source reviewed September 2026
institution: Waterbury Union Station & Clock Tower
summary: Supporting source for the collection’s history, chronology and research notes. A landmark tower and 1968 railroad photographs place Waterbury within a regional passenger network.
url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterbury_Union_Station
credit: Waterbury Union Station
notes: External source; the full publication remains with its publisher. The archive provides an original educational summary and a link. See the collection history for the claims supported by this record.
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id: CT061-P01
title: New Haven Railroad RDC and Waterbury Union Station clock tower, August 1968
kind: Photographs
date: Taken on 24 August 1968
institution: Waterbury Union Station & Clock Tower
summary: New Haven Railroad train #455, a Waterbury - Bridgeport Shoreliner, next to the Waterbury, Connecticut station clock tower on August 24, 1968.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Haven_Railroad_RDC_and_Waterbury_Union_Station_clock_tower,_August_1968.jpg
credit: Roger Puta / Public domain
notes: Public domain in the United States (source file license). Image supplied at web resolution; no editorial changes to the source image. 500px web thumbnail after source throttled larger image.
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external_image_url: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/New_Haven_Railroad_RDC_and_Waterbury_Union_Station_clock_tower%2C_August_1968.jpg
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id: CT061-P02
title: New Haven Railroad locomotives and RDC at Waterbury station, August 1968
kind: Photographs
date: Taken on 24 August 1968
institution: Waterbury Union Station & Clock Tower
summary: New Haven GP9 #1206 and other locomotives and an RDC next to the Waterbury, Connecticut station on August 24, 1968
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Haven_Railroad_locomotives_and_RDC_at_Waterbury_station,_August_1968.jpg
credit: Roger Puta / Public domain
notes: Public domain in the United States (source file license). Image supplied at web resolution; no editorial changes to the source image. 500px web thumbnail after source throttled larger image.
file: images/rail_waterbury-54435073.jpg
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external_image_url: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/New_Haven_Railroad_locomotives_and_RDC_at_Waterbury_station%2C_August_1968.jpg
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id: ED-H2-HT-SP-005
title: Waterbury's predecessor depot, postcard mailed in 1909
kind: Postcards
date: circa 1909; postmark 1909
institution: Waterbury Union Station & Clock Tower
summary: Waterbury predecessor railroad depot with modest tower. This postcard shows the older Waterbury depot that was replaced by the larger Union Station in 1909. It does not depict the later clock-tower building.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waterbury_station_1909_postcard.jpg
credit: Unknown / Wikimedia Commons (see source page for original provenance)
notes: Not the tall 1909 clock-towerstation. Postmark is mailing date, not exposure date. Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: Public domain in the United States; Commons PD-scan/PD-US-expired tags for pre-1931 publication.
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id: ED-H2-HT-SP-006
title: Union Station in Carol Highsmith's Connecticut survey
kind: Photographs
date: 2011-10
institution: Waterbury Union Station & Clock Tower
summary: Highsmith's October 2011 photograph provides a later view of Waterbury's historic Union Station.
url: https://www.loc.gov/item/2012631622/
credit: Carol M. Highsmith / Library of Congress
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. LC-DIG-highsm-20213. Direct file URL not verified. Reuse: LOC: no known restrictions on publication; George F. Landegger Collection.
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