Connecticut Company

Connecticut Company

Connecticut Company (blue) and other New Haven electric railway subsidiaries
Overview
Locale	New England, United States
Dates of operation	1907 (1907)–1976 (1976)

The Connecticut Company was the primary electric street railway company in the U.S. state of Connecticut, operating both city and rural trolleys and freight service. It was controlled by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (New Haven), which also controlled most steam railroads in the state. After 1936, when one of its major leases was dissolved, it continued operating streetcars and, increasingly, buses in certain Connecticut cities until 1976, when its assets were purchased by the state government.