Browse Items (1 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Tags: Essex Steam Train Sort by: Title Creator Date Added Steam Locomotive The Connecticut Valley Railroad, chartered in 1868, was built in 1870-1871. The construction was completed for the first run, from Hartford to Saybrook, on July 29, 1871. Ulysses S. Grant was in the White House and the first transcontinental… Tags: Essex Steam Train, locomotive, trains Output Formats atom, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2