34 Business View Magazine - April 2016
Enfield, Connecticut
Where the trains go rushing by – for now
Imagine how frustrated you would feel, if you were
waiting hours for a train, and when it did finally arrive,
it rumbled right past you without stopping. Now imag-
ine you’re an entire town – one that is actually situated
on a working rail line that has passenger trains run-
ning along its tracks it all day long - but none of those
trains ever stop. Welcome to Enfield, Connecticut.
A town of about 45,000, Enfield is situated on the
east bank of the Connecticut River, about midway be-
tween Hartford and Springfield Massachusetts. Every
day, Enfield citizens can witness Amtrak’s Northeast
Regional and Vermonter lines shuttling back and forth
between points north and south. But, unfortunately,
those same people can never get on any of those
