The Central New England Railroad operated under several names, beginning in 1871 and ending in 1927, and ran from Hartford, Connecticut, to Millerton, New York. At High Street Junction on Dyer Avenue, the train arrived from Simsbury. The passenger station stood on River Road, and originally a horse car on tracks carried passengers to and from the Dyer Avenue station. Eventually a wye was devised, and the train backed down to River Road to pick up passengers before continuing west toward New Hartford. The building on Dyer Avenue that still stands today was the freight station and has been moved a slight distance from its original location.