The Metro-North Waterbury branch officially reopened on Monday after months of being shut down for repairs.
Train service at the Waterbury branch was temporarily suspended in mid-August after historic floods caused two washouts near Beacon Falls and Seymour, preventing any trains from operating, according to Josh Morgan, the communications director for the CT Department of Transportation (CT DOT).
“It took more than 7,000 tons of materials to fill in one of the washed out areas by the Kinneytown Dam, just a significant hole that was left on that rail line,” Morgan said.
Morgan added employees with CT DOT, Metro-North and third-party contractors worked around the clock to restore the popular train branch…