Currier & Ives produced this lithograph, The Express Train, showing a train similar to the ones Fairfielders would have ridden on in the 1850s.
Fairfield resident John Nichols worked for the New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad Company as a train conductor in the 1850s. He carried this small trunk box containing tickets, commuter passes, timetables, newspaper clippings, and a black silk ribbon stamped “CONDUCTOR.”
Tickets for passengers riding the train in the 1850s.
C. 1900 photograph of Fairfield railroad station freight house, with a train approaching on the railroad tracks.
