Busy Morning
A 400mm telephoto view compresses the urban jungle such that it is in the city of Pawtucket. The street side running along the George Bennett Industrial Highway is among the coolest trackage in the Ocean State and offers countless angles. Once laced with dozens of customers to the point that in New Haven days it rated its own support yard in Darlington with and assigned switch engine now only two active consignees remain along the roughly 2.5 mile stretch alongside the road. Providence and Worcester local PR-3 has just finished working one of those two, Teknor Apex and is about to continue south (and then swing back northeast) to the end of track to drop one load at Metals USA. They are seen at about MP 2 on the the East Providence Running track at the busy Armistice Blvd. crossing.
On their return trip to Valley Falls they will pause again to work the other remaining customer when they spot that boxcar at Key Container. Leading the train is home road GP38-2 2006 that has spent the entirety of its life on these rails having been built new for the road by EMD in Feb. 1980.
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Monday April 12, 2021
Busy Morning
A 400mm telephoto view compresses the urban jungle such that it is in the city of Pawtucket. The street side running along the George Bennett Industrial Highway is among the coolest trackage in the Ocean State and offers countless angles. Once laced with dozens of customers to the point that in New Haven days it rated its own support yard in Darlington with and assigned switch engine now only two active consignees remain along the roughly 2.5 mile stretch alongside the road. Providence and Worcester local PR-3 has just finished working one of those two, Teknor Apex and is about to continue south (and then swing back northeast) to the end of track to drop one load at Metals USA. They are seen at about MP 2 on the the East Providence Running track at the busy Armistice Blvd. crossing.
On their return trip to Valley Falls they will pause again to work the other remaining customer when they spot that boxcar at Key Container. Leading the train is home road GP38-2 2006 that has spent the entirety of its life on these rails having been built new for the road by EMD in Feb. 1980.
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Monday April 12, 2021