Cedar Hill Yard is a railroad classification yard in New Haven, North
Haven, and Hamden, Connecticut, in the United States. It was built by
the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in the early 1890s in and
around New Haven's Cedar Hill neighborhood, which gave the yard its
name. Following an expansion begun in 1917, and further improvements in
the 1920s, Cedar Hill Yard became one of the largest rail yards in the
United States, routinely handling more than 4,000 railroad cars each day
on 880 acres (360 ha) of land. After the rise of trucks and highways,
and rerouting of rail traffic to newly built Selkirk Yard in the state
of New York, Cedar Hill Yard significantly declined in importance and
much of it was abandoned, as ownership was transferred to Penn Central
in 1969, and subsequently Conrail in 1976. Since 1999, the yard has been
owned and operated by CSX Transportation, and also hosts operations by
Amtrak, the Connecticut Southern Railroad, and the Providence and
Worcester Railroad.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Hill_Yard>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1781:
American Revolutionary War: French naval forces handed Britain
a major strategic defeat at the Battle of the Chesapeake (depicted).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Chesapeake>
1915:
The Zimmerwald Conference, the first of three international
socialist conferences forming the Zimmerwald movement, opened in
Switzerland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmerwald_Conference>
1943:
World War II: American and Australian airborne forces landed
at Nadzab as part of the New Guinea campaign against Japan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_at_Nadzab>
1977:
NASA launched the space probe Voyager 1, currently the
farthest spacecraft from Earth, from Launch Complex 41 at Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dispatch box:
1. A box or case with a lock that is used for carrying dispatches
(“important official messages”) and other documents.
2. (Commonwealth of Nations, politics) A box that is placed on a table
in a legislative debating chamber and used as a lectern for addressing
the legislature.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dispatch_box>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I'm a proud capitalist. I spent most of my career representing
the corporate state of Delaware. I know America can't succeed unless
American business succeeds. But let me be very clear: Capitalism
without competition isn't capitalism; it's exploitation.
--Joe Biden
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joe_Biden>
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