Template:Did you know nominations/Connecticut Valley Railroad

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The result was: promoted by Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 16:48, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Connecticut Valley Railroad

  • ... that the Connecticut Valley Railroad, which began operations in 1871, was resurrected in 1971 as the Valley Railroad, a heritage railroad? Source: Karr, Ronald Dale (2017). The Rail Lines of Southern New England : a Handbook of Railroad History (Second ed.). Pepperell, Massachusetts. pp. 111–115.
    • ALT1: ... that the Connecticut Valley Railroad successfully fooled the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad into purchasing it by pretending that it planned to expand northwards? Source: Karr, Ronald Dale (2017). The Rail Lines of Southern New England : a Handbook of Railroad History (Second ed.). Pepperell, Massachusetts. pp. 111–115.
    • Comment: I'm an hour or so past 7 days after creation, so I understand if this gets declined for that reason. But it's now or never (unless I get this to GA).

Created by Trainsandotherthings (talk). Self-nominated at 19:46, 16 January 2022 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited: Yes - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
  • Interesting: Yes
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article was created 9 Jan (the time doesn't really matter to me), which was seven days ago. RPS is 5867 B, which is easily long enough. Both hooks are cited inline to an offline source, so I will AGF. QPQ has been done and Earwig looks good. Passing with preference towards ALT1 as I believe that is the more interesting hook. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 20:49, 16 January 2022 (UTC)


Promoting ALT1 to Prep 1. And don't worry, you were just 1 hour late or so. – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 16:48, 28 January 2022 (UTC)