Seymour, Connecticut

Seymour, Connecticut, was first served by the Naugatuck Railroad and the line was merged into the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad in 1906. The station, shown here in these circa 1906 and 1910 views, was built in 1898 and finally torn down in the 1960s. The second card shows a sloppy attempt to add a background color to the original photograph used to print the card. In the well-composed card below, note the early convertible automobile, directly below the roof of the passenger platform, on the right. The station platform's partial end wall attached to the roof, with its distinctive cut-out notch and short height, was a familiar characteristic of the NYNH&H stations in Connecticut. Many thanks to the historian at the Seymour Historical Society for some missing details.