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By:Adam T
Dates:6/26/2006 - 11/28/2014
Album Info:Providence & Worcester's Rhode Island operations are based out of the railroads Valley Falls Yard in the town of Cumberland, just outside Providence. Local PR-3 (Monday-Friday) works customers on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, in the busy Port of Providence, and occasionally the Seaview Railroad interchange in Davisville. PR-2 (Monday-Thursday) typically works the East Providence, East Junction, and Slatersville Branches.
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PW 3905
Title:  PW 3905
Description:  PW 3905 sorts through cars that were brought down by WO©C early Monday morning. Once that is finished, the train will run up to KIK Custom Products.
Photo Date:  12/27/2007  Upload Date: 12/27/2007 2:42:45 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 3905(B39-8E)
Views:  216   Comments: 0
PW 2007
Title:  PW 2007
Description:  Train PR-2 gets their power ready by the Valley Falls enginehouse, also known as the "Barn." They'll sort some cars in the Valley Falls Yard before going north to switch KIK Custom Products.
Photo Date:  4/14/2008  Upload Date: 4/16/2008 4:20:02 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 2007(GP38-2)
Views:  128   Comments: 0
PW 2215
Title:  PW 2215
Description:  PW 2215, the northern unit on train PR-2 today, does some switching in the Valley Falls Yard. That's St. Patrick's Chruch in the background.
Photo Date:  4/14/2008  Upload Date: 4/16/2008 4:25:09 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 2215(B23-7R)
Views:  289   Comments: 0
PW 2007
Title:  PW 2007
Description:  PW 2007 is the trailing unit on train PR-2 as the train heads north for KIK Custom Products. The train is crossing Mendon Road and passing Del's Lemonade.
Photo Date:  4/14/2008  Upload Date: 4/14/2008 9:06:43 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 2007(GP38-2)
Views:  245   Comments: 1
PW 2215
Title:  PW 2215
Description:  PW 2215 exits out of the Atlantic Plywood building on train PR-2. The train has just dropped off two loads of plywood at the customer. The Seekonk River is on the left.
Photo Date:  4/14/2008  Upload Date: 7/2/2008 11:07:26 AM
Location:  East Providence, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 2215(B23-7R)
Views:  205   Comments: 0
ITTX 973122 and PW 2007
Title:  ITTX 973122 and PW 2007
Description:  PW 2007 leads train PR-2 past ITTX 973122, which is waiting to be loaded by new customer Nes in the old Darlington Yards. Those turquoise containers, which are loaded with granite, will be loaded onto the flat car and be shipped to Florida.
Photo Date:  4/16/2008  Upload Date: 4/17/2008 10:19:26 AM
Location:  Pawtucket, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 2007(GP38-2)
Views:  205   Comments: 0
Power in Valley Falls
Title:  Power in Valley Falls
Description:  PW 2011 and PW 2007, which will be used on train PR-2 later today, sit on the East Providence Branch as PR-3's crew gets that train's power ready.
Photo Date:  8/25/2008  Upload Date: 12/28/2008 7:58:05 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 2011(GP38) PW 2007(GP38-2) PW 3904(B39-8E)
Views:  247   Comments: 0
PW 2011
Title:  PW 2011
Description:  PW 2011 leads train PR-2 across the Omega Pond bridge. The train is on its way to switch Metals USA and Pond View Recycling.
Photo Date:  8/25/2008  Upload Date: 8/26/2008 11:23:10 AM
Location:  East Providence, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 2011(GP38)
Views:  172   Comments: 1
Train PR-2
Title:  Train PR-2
Description:  The crews on both sections of train PR-2 get their power ready by the Palley Falls Yard Office. The section with PW 3908 will go work the Providence Recieving Yard and customers along the Northeast Corridor. PW 2007 will drop a load at Osram Sylvania, and then switch customers on the East Providence Branch. PW bay window caboose 5001 looks on on what's left of the old Wrentham Branch.
Photo Date:  12/29/2008  Upload Date: 12/29/2008 6:29:38 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 2007(GP38-2) PW 3908(B39-8E)
Views:  322   Comments: 0
Train PR-2 Crossing Omega Pond
Title:  Train PR-2 Crossing Omega Pond
Description:  PW 2007 leads train PR-2 across the Omega Pond Bridge. The train just picked up an empty from Metals USA, two loads fwom Pond View Recycling, and that BCOL box car from Atlantic Plywood. The train will go to the Providence Recieving Yard, where those cars will be dropped off, and then tie down for the day back home in Valley Falls.
Photo Date:  12/29/2008  Upload Date: 12/29/2008 6:37:36 PM
Location:  East Providence, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 2007(GP38-2)
Views:  235   Comments: 2
PW 2201
Title:  PW 2201
Description:  PW 2201 switches Teknor Apex on the East Providence Branch along the busy Pawtucket Industrial Highway on train PR-2.
Photo Date:  7/20/2009  Upload Date: 7/21/2009 1:16:16 PM
Location:  Pawtucket, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 2201(B23-7)
Views:  247   Comments: 0
PW 2201
Title:  PW 2201
Description:  PW 2201 leads PR-2 past the ASI Building next to the Philipsdale Yard at Bourne Avenue on the East Providence Branch. The train is on its way to switch Homestead Baking and Pond View Recycling.
Photo Date:  7/20/2009  Upload Date: 7/21/2009 1:21:11 PM
Location:  East Providence, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 2201(B23-7)
Views:  155   Comments: 0
Train PR-2
Title:  Train PR-2
Description:  PR-2 drops a loaded tank car of hydrogen peroxide at Roberts Chemical in the Pawtucket Yards. Photo taken with permission.
Photo Date:  7/12/2010  Upload Date: 7/12/2010 6:18:08 PM
Location:  Pawtucket, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 2006(GP38-2)
Views:  228   Comments: 0
Train PR-2
Title:  Train PR-2
Description:  PW 2010 leads train PR-2 toward the Ralco Way crossing on the East Providence Branch. Today they'll be working Teknor Apex with that hopper and Metals USA with that flat car, among other customers.
Photo Date:  2/23/2011  Upload Date: 2/25/2011 10:20:32 AM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 2010(GP38)
Views:  213   Comments: 0
Train PR-1
Title:  Train PR-1
Description:  PW 2010 leads train PR-2 across bustling Interstate 95 on a cloudless winter morning. In a few seconds, the train will cross the state border from Massachusetts back into Rhode Island.
Photo Date:  2/23/2011  Upload Date: 2/23/2011 10:12:22 PM
Location:  South Attleboro, MA
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 2010(GP38)
Views:  193   Comments: 0
Baer Supply
Title:  Baer Supply
Description:  Train PR-2 switches Baer Supply near Pawtucket Avenue. The company recently relocated from its Providence location to this spot on the East Providence Branch.
Photo Date:  2/23/2011  Upload Date: 2/23/2011 10:19:16 PM
Location:  East Providence, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  126   Comments: 0
Valley Falls Yard
Title:  Valley Falls Yard
Description:  With a big increase of scrap going to Schnietzer Steel/State Line Scrap on the East Providence Branch, a large amount of scrap loads are seen in the Valley Falls Yard awaiting delivery. Elso sprinkled in are a couple cement and plastic pellet hoppers along with a flat car or two of I-beams.
Photo Date:  2/23/2011  Upload Date: 2/23/2011 10:34:41 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  Winter,Yard
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Views:  156   Comments: 0
PW 2007
Title:  PW 2007
Description:  PW 2007, the southern unit on today's PR-2, works the Lower Valley Falls Yard on a cloudless August morning.
Photo Date:  8/17/2011  Upload Date: 8/18/2011 7:07:58 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PW 2007(GP38-2)
Views:  150   Comments: 0
Train PR-2
Title:  Train PR-2
Description:  Train PR-2 runs up the Providence Main to Dean Warehouse in the Berkley section of Cumberland. The former KIK Custom Products facility is behind the trees on the right.
Photo Date:  8/17/2011  Upload Date: 8/17/2011 9:27:36 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 2007(GP38-2)
Views:  157   Comments: 1
PW 2007
Title:  PW 2007
Description:  Train PR-2 drops two gondolas at Barker Steel at the end of the Moshassuck Valley Running Track.
Photo Date:  8/17/2011  Upload Date: 8/17/2011 5:48:04 PM
Location:  Lincoln, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 2007(GP38-2)
Views:  166   Comments: 1
PW 2008
Title:  PW 2008
Description:  Train PR-2 switches the Providence Journal off Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and Yard 17 in Providence.
Photo Date:  8/17/2011  Upload Date: 8/17/2011 5:49:55 PM
Location:  Providence, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 2008(GP38-2)
Views:  250   Comments: 0
Train PR-2 at Pond View Recycling
Title:  Train PR-2 at Pond View Recycling
Description:  Train PR-2 shoves down the Pond View Recycling siding to retrieve a single load of construction debris. The Tanner Industries siding is seen at bottom right.
Photo Date:  8/17/2011  Upload Date: 8/17/2011 9:31:25 PM
Location:  East Providence, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 2008(GP38-2)
Views:  182   Comments: 0
In the Valley Falls Yard
Title:  In the Valley Falls Yard
Description:  PW 2008 leads train PR-2 into the Valley Falls Yard after switching customers on the East Providence Branch.
Photo Date:  8/17/2011  Upload Date: 8/18/2011 7:11:36 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PW 2008(GP38-2)
Views:  165   Comments: 0
Valley Falls Yard
Title:  Valley Falls Yard
Description:  Providence & Worcester's Valley Falls Yard in Cumberland, RI. Plenty of plastic pellet and cement hoppers with a few gondolas and tank cars mixed in.
Photo Date:  8/17/2011  Upload Date: 8/17/2011 9:39:44 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories:  Yard
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Views:  102   Comments: 0
A Little Street Running
Title:  A Little Street Running
Description:  PR-2 marches down the middle of the Pawtucket Industrial Highway with one of PW's big GEs in charge.
Photo Date:  12/27/2011  Upload Date: 12/27/2011 6:09:44 PM
Location:  Pawtucket, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 4001(B40-8)
Views:  131   Comments: 0
PW 4001
Title:  PW 4001
Description:  PR-2 grabs an empty hopper from Teknor Apex along the busy Pawtucket Industrial Highway under menacing skies.
Photo Date:  12/27/2011  Upload Date: 12/27/2011 6:12:27 PM
Location:  Pawtucket, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 4001(B40-8)
Views:  132   Comments: 0
PW 3908
Title:  PW 3908
Description:  Framed by part of the Mill Sreet crossing gate structure, PR-2's crew fires up 3908 on a cold morning after Christmas.
Photo Date:  12/26/2012  Upload Date: 12/26/2012 10:59:59 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 3908(B39-8E)
Views:  432   Comments: 1
Polish Specialty Foods
Title:  Polish Specialty Foods
Description:  3908 leads PR-2 past a Polish market as the train begins its trek down the Pawtucket Industrial Highway. The conductor is getting ready to flag the busy Broadway crossing. Today's train includes cars for Baer Supply, Tanner Industries, and Key Container.
Photo Date:  12/26/2012  Upload Date: 12/26/2012 11:26:06 PM
Location:  Pawtucket, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 3908(B39-8E)
Views:  480   Comments: 0
Schnitzer Metals/State Line Scrap
Title:  Schnitzer Metals/State Line Scrap
Description:  A tattered and beaten 2009 shoves a gondola down the Schnitzer/State Line Scrap siding as the sun struggles to shine through the clouds.
Photo Date:  7/10/2013  Upload Date: 7/10/2013 11:45:49 PM
Location:  Pawtucket, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 2009(GP38-2)
Views:  152   Comments: 0
Hamlet Avenue
Title:  Hamlet Avenue
Description:  PR-2 is on their way back to Valley Falls after switching Ralco in the Woonsocket Yard. They're crossing the busy Hamlet Avenue crossing.
Photo Date:  7/10/2013  Upload Date: 7/10/2013 11:36:37 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 2010(GP38)
Views:  189   Comments: 1
Polar Express
Title:  Polar Express
Description:  Providence & Worcester's Polar Express rolls across the Blackstone River into the city of Woonsocket with 3902 leading. In just a moment they'll pull into the Woonsocket Depot to prepare to load passengers for the first of two trips this evening.
Photo Date:  11/28/2014  Upload Date: 11/28/2014 6:05:35 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 3902(B39-8E)
Views:  504   Comments: 0
Polar Express
Title:  Polar Express
Description:  PW 4006 and power car 669 roll across the Blackstone River on the tail end of Providence & Worcester's popular Polar Express train. They'll soon come to a stop at the Woonsocket Depot to prepare to load for the first of two trips this evening.
Photo Date:  11/28/2014  Upload Date: 11/28/2014 6:09:21 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 4006(B40-8W)
Views:  127   Comments: 0
Ready to Load
Title:  Ready to Load
Description:  After deadheading southward from Worcester, the Polar Express rests outside the Woonsocket Depot as crews prepare to load passengers.
Photo Date:  11/28/2014  Upload Date: 11/28/2014 6:13:57 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
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Locomotives:  PW 4006(B40-8W)
Views:  134   Comments: 0
PW 5001 and PW 3905
Title:  PW 5001 and PW 3905
Description:  After switching Atlantic Plywood, PW 3905 and PWÙ5001 join up with the rest of the train in the Philipsdale Yard.
Photo Date:  12/26/2007  Upload Date: 12/27/2007 3:47:14 PM
Location:  East Providence, RI
Author:  Adam Twombly
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 3905(B39-8E)
Views:  277   Comments: 0


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