Back To The Future For Windsor Locks

In January 1975 Ella Tambussi Grasso boarded a train from Windsor Locks to Hartford beginning her historic journey to her inauguration becoming the first elected woman Governor in U.S. history.  The train station was located in the center of Windsor Locks.  Soon after Amtrak officials abandoned the historic train station and constructed a train platform on the outskirts of town.  36 years later our train platform consisting of a tiny plastic shelter is still not located in the center of town.  We only need to look to Windsor to see what a great train station needs to look like.  The irony of this is that our little train station services 5,000 more passengers than Windsor’s train station.  Our platform is across the street from the sewage treatment plant.  The historic train station where Ella Grasso boarded the train to Hartford sits crumbling due to neglect and vandalism.  What an embarrassment to the Town of Windsor Locks and the State of Connecticut.  Windsor Locks is referred to as “The Gateway to New England”.  Part of that gateway should not be on the outskirts of town across the street from the sewer plant.

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