After northern Bloomfield, the line ran through Tariffville, across the Farmington, and into Simsbury. At Simsbury, the Canal Line and the Central New England
shared a station (Connecticut Railroads: An Illustrated History.) Phil's maps show that the two lines also share a roadbed from Tariffville into
Simsbury Proper (this is also reported on an online discussion forum by "jcpdeke.") In Simsbury, 2 stations can be found; that which has become the One Way Fare
restaraunt:
and another one, closer to where the Central left the Canal Roadbed:
Although the Connecticut History Online search page lists the brick one as the Canal Station and the wooden one as the CNE, the Simsbury town Historical Society has a webpage detailing
both buildings at this page. According to this, the wooden one is the older of the two and the brick one came in 1874, about at the time the Central
would have come through Simsbury. So our guess is that One Way Fare was the union station of both roads, becoming the CNE station and replacing the older, wooden building on the Canal. The railroad crossed Hopmeadow Street very near where Rte. 167 is, and can be seen eventually to the south of this, running into
Stratton Brook State Park
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