Cedar Hill Yard is a railroad classification yard in New Haven, North Haven, and Hamden, Connecticut, in the United States. It was built by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in the early 1890s in and around New Haven's Cedar Hill neighborhood, which gave the yard its name. Following an expansion begun in 1917, and further improvements in the 1920s, Cedar Hill Yard became one of the largest rail yards in the United States, routinely handling more than 4,000 railroad cars each day on 880 acres (360 ha) of land. After the rise of trucks and highways, and rerouting of rail traffic to newly built Selkirk Yard in the state of New York, Cedar Hill Yard significantly declined in importance and much of it was abandoned, as ownership was transferred to Penn Central in 1969, and subsequently Conrail in 1976. Since 1999, the yard has been owned and operated by CSX Transportation, and also hosts operations by Amtrak, the Connecticut Southern Railroad, and the Providence and Worcester Railroad.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1781:

American Revolutionary War: French naval forces handed Britain a major strategic defeat at the Battle of the Chesapeake (depicted). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Chesapeake

1915:

The Zimmerwald Conference, the first of three international socialist conferences forming the Zimmerwald movement, opened in Switzerland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmerwald_Conference

1943:

World War II: American and Australian airborne forces landed at Nadzab as part of the New Guinea campaign against Japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_at_Nadzab

1977:

NASA launched the space probe Voyager 1, currently the farthest spacecraft from Earth, from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

dispatch box: 1. A box or case with a lock that is used for carrying dispatches (“important official messages”) and other documents. 2. (Commonwealth of Nations, politics) A box that is placed on a table in a legislative debating chamber and used as a lectern for addressing the legislature. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dispatch_box

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

I'm a proud capitalist. I spent most of my career representing the corporate state of Delaware. I know America can't succeed unless American business succeeds. But let me be very clear: Capitalism without competition isn't capitalism; it's exploitation.   --Joe Biden https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joe_Biden