A Little Seaview
It was a gorgeous morning on Wednesday so I figured I'd try to shoot something easy and decided to take a drive down to shoot Rhode Island's 'other' freight railroad, the Seaview Transportation Company operating on 14 miles of state owned trackage in the Quonset Business Park.
Alas there was nothing moving except for the 80 tonner being tested light engine in the yard. So I reached out to the railroad's owner, an old friend of mine, who told me that they didn't have any cars to deliver since the Providence and Worcester didn't come down the prior night. In fact he informed me that the regular WODA (Worcester to Davisville turn) road freight that is supposed to run five nights a week had only run 5 of the last 15 scheduled trips! To say he was not happy would be an understatement.
Anyway, since I had nothing to shoot I dug this out of the archives to post. Seaview number 5 is seen doing a little switching in the railroad's six track yard located just east of the West Davisville Road overpass and less than a half mile from where the line meets Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, their only connection to the outside world. SVTX 5 is an EMD SW7 blt. Feb. 1951 as NYC 8851 and served PC and CR before being sold to the PW where it served mostly as a Worcester switcher until coming here around 2002.
To learn more about this line check out the caption with this shot: flic.kr/p/2ndaWTG
North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Friday September 21, 2012
A Little Seaview
It was a gorgeous morning on Wednesday so I figured I'd try to shoot something easy and decided to take a drive down to shoot Rhode Island's 'other' freight railroad, the Seaview Transportation Company operating on 14 miles of state owned trackage in the Quonset Business Park.
Alas there was nothing moving except for the 80 tonner being tested light engine in the yard. So I reached out to the railroad's owner, an old friend of mine, who told me that they didn't have any cars to deliver since the Providence and Worcester didn't come down the prior night. In fact he informed me that the regular WODA (Worcester to Davisville turn) road freight that is supposed to run five nights a week had only run 5 of the last 15 scheduled trips! To say he was not happy would be an understatement.
Anyway, since I had nothing to shoot I dug this out of the archives to post. Seaview number 5 is seen doing a little switching in the railroad's six track yard located just east of the West Davisville Road overpass and less than a half mile from where the line meets Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, their only connection to the outside world. SVTX 5 is an EMD SW7 blt. Feb. 1951 as NYC 8851 and served PC and CR before being sold to the PW where it served mostly as a Worcester switcher until coming here around 2002.
To learn more about this line check out the caption with this shot: flic.kr/p/2ndaWTG
North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Friday September 21, 2012