Upon federal approval, looks like the Providence & Worcester will be going away. Read the news.
Tim
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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....
All is needed now is the G&W to take over Miss Suzie Q and there lies another mega RR in the northeast with access to major cities of NY, Boston, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Ect. Reading and Northern better make some moves or it too can be swallowed up!
The picture accompanying that article is interesting. I had no idea that the P&W had access to the tracks that run over the Hellgate Bridge in NYC.
Live and learn ... but they're gone next week.
Steven J. Serenska
P&W is alive and thriving in Portland, Oregon ... "Portland & Western Railroad"
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
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
Not exactly a "fallen flag". P&W is becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of G&W. So it will still be around, just not as an indepenent operation.
Serenska posted:The picture accompanying that article is interesting. I had no idea that the P&W had access to the tracks that run over the Hellgate Bridge in NYC.
Live and learn ... but they're gone next week.
Steven J. Serenska
The P&W had its start on ex-NH trackage, so this pic is not out of line.
Going away. Will the tracks be removed also?
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
P&W HQ location - Worcester MA
Shot of Worcester Shops
An overloaded hopper picked the switch
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.
Timothy Sprague posted:
Is GW going to change the name?
superwarp1 posted:Timothy Sprague posted:Is GW going to change the name?
So far it looks like they'll operate it as the P&W, a wholly owned subsidiary of G&W.
