I find New Haven’s timetables almost as bewildering as Boston & Maine’s. Start with the fact that the railroad didn’t number the pages consecutively but instead put a number on the upper outside corner of each page equal to the number of the first schedule on that page. This particular timetable has a 1 on two different pages, followed by two 2s, one 3, and six 4s, but no 7, 8, or 9 because tables 6 through 9 all fit on one page.

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Another issue is that many of the trains are listed several times. Table 1 lists trains from New York to Boston and table 2 lists New York to Springfield while table 4 lists trains from New York to New Haven, including all of the New York to Boston and New York to Springfield already listed. Trying to avoid these duplicate trains, I count close to 200 trains per weekday. That includes about 21 trains that are called Boston commuter trains.

Although not called commuter trains, New Haven operated nearly 100 trains per day between New York City and Stamford, Connecticut, one of the wealthiest cities in the country at the time. Nearly 30 of these trains went on to New Haven, and about half of those continued to Boston while most others continued to Springfield.

Among other routes, New Haven also had lines to Pittsfield, Massachusetts (about 6 per day), to Hartford via Waterbury (about 12 a day), and Cape Cod (8 per day from Boston and two a day from New York). New Haven also ran trains from New York to Hartford via Waterbury and from Boston to Waterbury via Hartford.