The Housatonic Line 1887

A journey from New York city to the southern half of the county, which is the portion of this famous region most sought, requires but four hours and a half in drawing-room cars or in first class passenger cars that are the tidiest and best furnished and finished ones in the United States. The distance is about 150 miles. From Boston the time is less than five hours, the distance being a little over 150 miles. Three lines of railway cross the region, and a line of railways extends up and down. The east and west line at the north is the Hoosac Tunnel road; the middle line is the Boston & Albany, and the south line is the Hartford & Connecticut Western, which connects the Hudson and Connecticut rivers. From the center of the county, at Pittsfield, to the north end runs the Pittsfield & North Adams railroad, and towards the south runs the Housatonic [line] to Bridgeport, where connection is had with the New York, New Haven & Hartford [line]. These railway lines afford accommodations for travel to arid from the region that make it easily accessible, and that make the return to the city an easy and short matter.