Harwich to Chatham

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• States: Massachusetts   
• Railroads: NYNH&H   

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Point of Interest

This is the former New Haven (Old Colony) station at Chatham, which is now a museum, with NYC caboose 18452. Photo by Mike Palmer, August 2002.

Chatham is on the east side of Cape Cod, at the end of a short branch that joined the New Haven line to Provincetown at Harwich. This line was built in the 1880s and abandoned during the 1930s.

From west to east, the stations were :

• Harwich
• Harwich Center
• South Harwich
• South Chatham
• West Chatham
• Chatham

What was the reason for this line's abandonment?

KLG
Evanston, IL
12/27/2009

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I was almost 2 when the photo was taken

Dequante Bazemore
Chesapeake, VA
3/4/2010

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Not sure why the line was abandoned so soon, since it existed for barely 50 years. Exact year of abandonment was 1938.

Paco
Phoenixville, PA
6/10/2010

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According to a close up of the map, the line ends by Goose Pond. The photo of the station is in Chatham off Rte. 28.

Linda
Long Island, NY
7/18/2010

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