Maybrook Interlocking

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This is where most of the interchange at the New Haven Railroads Maybrook Yard took place. Going up to the northeast is the NHRR line to Maybrook Yard. Running from the west to east is the New York, Ontario, and Western mainline from Middletown to the Hudson River. Running from the southeast to the north is the Erie Railroads Montgomery Branch. This provided access to Maybrook Yard for the Erie RR, the Lehigh & New England to the southeast, and the New York Central Walkill Branch to the north of Montgomery. The trains from these railroads would pull through the junction, up the NHRR line to the northeast, and into Maybrook where they would be broken up, serviced, turned, and re-assembled with the New Haven interchange traffic. The NYO&W went bankrupt in 1957 and its tracks torn up. The Erie merged with the Delaware, Lackawanna, & Western in 1960 and formed Erie Lackawanna, which provided more traffic directly to Maybrook via the Erie. The Lehigh & New England went bankrupt 1961 and its tracks torn up. The New York Central merged with the Pennsylvania RR in 1967 to form Penn Central, which took over the New Haven RR on December 31, 1968. In 1970 Penn Central went bankrupt, forcing the remaining railroads here (Erie Lackawanna and the Lehigh & Hudson River RR) into bankruptcy in the following 2 years. In 1974 the Poughkeepsie Bridge burned and service from New England to Maybrook via that root ended, channeling all the traffic to the former NYC Walkill Branch. In 1976, all the bankrupt northeast railroads became Conrail, and Maybrook was dead.