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Wow!  Sorry to see this go.  I went to college in Worcester and now my sister lives there, so I always love seeing the P&W still hard at work when I visit. 

Interestingly enough, a few months back I was visiting my sister and saw a line of NYC aluminum streamlined cars go by, unfortunately by the time I got my phone out to take a photo, they had passed.  even had a great observation car, looked just like the Lionel postwar 2500 series cars.  Would have liked to have known where those were headed....

Railrunnin posted:

Steve. That is a job to Fresh Pond Queens once per week carrying stone. Crew rests and turns back Saturday morning. Interesting story how they happened to stop the train on the  HG Bridge to get that picture. 

Paul 

Pablo:

An "interesting story" is one I think we'd all like to hear.  If it's not proprietary or likely to get someone in trouble, please let us know.

SJS

 

For purposes here, let's just say this was not a required stop.

The P&W runs under the wire on the NE Corridor from NYC to Boston Switch in RI. Servicing the industries on the NE Corridor is a well choreographed exercise as one can not hold up an Acela, and if you do it is a very bad thing.

Four locations for originating jobs on the P&W are Worcester MA, Valley Falls RI, New Haven and Plainfield CT. The Plainfield location services a large Dow chemical plant on the CT River. Never should switch out cars on the fly at that location - but that's another story for another day.

A couple of pics for your enjoyment.

 

Think we are going to need some new ties

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P&W HQ location - Worcester MA

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Shot of Worcester Shops

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An overloaded hopper picked the switch

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Approaching New London heading East (north) on the NEC track two.

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I didn’t like the looks of the current Providence & Worcester locomotives. I also don’t like the looks of orange & black G&W locomotives in the US or Australia. My personal preference is that G&W adopts something modern like their locomotives in Netherlands like the following photo I found online, with P&W replacing the R+F Rail Feeding logo.

These are just my opinion.

Thanks,

Naveen Rajan

Those last two pics coming into New London bring back memories. That's the Shaw Cove swing bridge, Shaw Cove would be on the left, Coits Cove on the right. I lived about a block from the bridge when I was a kid. That's the Gold Star Memorial/I-95 bridge crossing the Thames River in the background. The tracks cross the river just downstream from it. The square brick building, with the white stone top, in the second pic is what used to be the Mohican Hotel, now the Mohican Senior Apts. The first six floors were built in 1896. The top two floors and roof garden, the white stone, were added in 1916. The trianglular shaped roof of the New London Union Station can be seen in the background of the first pic, just to the left of the white ship and below the bridge. There used to be a small yard to the right of the bridge approach, where one of my uncles worked. But that went away when Penn Central was going under, when they sold the land to developers to try and raise cash. For all the good it did them.

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