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Housatonic Railroad is a freight railroad that connects to the national rail system through CSX
Transportation at Pittsfield, MA. Our inbound cars are last classified at CSXT’s Selkirk, NY
classification yard and are transported by a road train to Pittsfield seven days a week. The
outbound cars are picked up by the returning CSX road train from West Springfield,
Massachusetts to Selkirk.
Housatonic's freight lines consist of the Berkshire Line and the Maybrook Line. The Berkshire
Line (also referred to as the Berkshire Hills Route) runs from Pittsfield, Massachusetts south to
Berkshire Junction in Danbury, Connecticut and west to Beacon, New York. [See System Map]
THE BERKSHIRE LINE - MASSACHUSETTS
Housatonic freight operations on the Berkshire Line in Massachusetts began in 1991 after the line
segment from Pittsfield, Mass. to Canaan, Conn. was purchased by Housatonic from the Boston &
Maine Railroad. The line was recently extended by the purchase of a small line segment from
Pittsfield to Coltsville from CSXT.
Housatonic operates approximately 38 miles in Massachusetts and serves two paper companies, a limestone quarry, a
manufacturer of plastic sheeting, a distribution center, a public warehouse, a lumber shipper, a concrete manufacturer and a
fertilizer receiver, the last three by using a public team track.
The Berkshire Line passes through the Massachusetts communities of Pittsfield, Lenox, Lee, Stockbridge, Housatonic, Great
Barrington and Sheffield. There are rail-served sites in Massachusetts available for industrial development.
THE BERKSHIRE LINE - CONNECTICUT
After crossing the Mass./Conn. state line at Canaan, the Berkshire Line continues south through the communities of Canaan,
Falls Village, Cornwall, Kent, New Milford, Brookfield, and Danbury. In that area, Housatonic serves a paper mill, a limestone
quarry, a plastics manufacturer, a pharmaceutical company, and two food manufacturers.
Rail-served sites along the line are available for industrial development.
THE MAYBROOK LINE - CONNECTICUT AND NEW YORK
The Connecticut portion of the Maybrook Line extends from the New York State Line at Danbury east through the communities
of Danbury, Hawleyville, Newtown, Botsford, Monroe, Shelton, and Derby. The New York portion extends west from Danbury
through the communities of Brewster, Fishkill, East Fishkill, Hopewell Junction, and Beacon.
The railroad-owned lumber distribution center and the bulk transfer facility are situated in Hawleyville. Other customers on the
Maybrook Line include three lumber companies, a waste diposal firm, a corrugated manufacturer, a printing company, a
polyester products firm, and a variety of small manufacturing firms.
