Rhody Geep
Monochrome Monday - Rhody Geep Edition
For the first snow of the season that finally stuck I went out trackside close to home to shoot the Seaview Transportation working down in Quonset-Davisville. After digging out cars at Ocean State Yard over on the Davisville Branch half of the railroad they headed over to the Quonset side and assembled their train in the new Mill Creek Yard before continuing east down the line to work mainstay customer, Toray Plastics.
After crossing Roger Williams Ave. they are now inside the plant that features five stub ended tracks. As described by their own web site: 'Founded in 1985, Toray Plastics (America), Inc., is a leading innovator in polypropylene, polyester, and polyolefin technology and operates three state-of-the-art facilities. Our headquarters in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, is home to two facilities. There we manufacture cast and mono- and biaxially-oriented polypropylene film, biaxially-oriented polyester film, and bio-based films, and conduct in-house metallizing and coating. Our films are used for industrial, packaging, lidding, graphic, optical, and electronic applications.'
Parent company Toray Industries is headquartered in Tokyo and was founded in 1926 as a Rayon Yarn Production Company. Today, it operates in 29 countries and has over 48, 000 employees globally and is the world's largest producer of carbon fiber among a vast array of other modern industrial products.
SVTX GP10 1855 was built as a GP9 in Aug. 1956 for the Baltimore and Ohio as their #6467. Later rebuilt by ICG's Paducah Shop she bounced around on different shortlines until coming to Rhode Island in 2006 where she was given this snappy paint job.
To learn more about this railroad check out the longer caption with this shot: flic.kr/p/2nNXfxP
North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Monday December 12, 2022
Rhody Geep
Monochrome Monday - Rhody Geep Edition
For the first snow of the season that finally stuck I went out trackside close to home to shoot the Seaview Transportation working down in Quonset-Davisville. After digging out cars at Ocean State Yard over on the Davisville Branch half of the railroad they headed over to the Quonset side and assembled their train in the new Mill Creek Yard before continuing east down the line to work mainstay customer, Toray Plastics.
After crossing Roger Williams Ave. they are now inside the plant that features five stub ended tracks. As described by their own web site: 'Founded in 1985, Toray Plastics (America), Inc., is a leading innovator in polypropylene, polyester, and polyolefin technology and operates three state-of-the-art facilities. Our headquarters in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, is home to two facilities. There we manufacture cast and mono- and biaxially-oriented polypropylene film, biaxially-oriented polyester film, and bio-based films, and conduct in-house metallizing and coating. Our films are used for industrial, packaging, lidding, graphic, optical, and electronic applications.'
Parent company Toray Industries is headquartered in Tokyo and was founded in 1926 as a Rayon Yarn Production Company. Today, it operates in 29 countries and has over 48, 000 employees globally and is the world's largest producer of carbon fiber among a vast array of other modern industrial products.
SVTX GP10 1855 was built as a GP9 in Aug. 1956 for the Baltimore and Ohio as their #6467. Later rebuilt by ICG's Paducah Shop she bounced around on different shortlines until coming to Rhode Island in 2006 where she was given this snappy paint job.
To learn more about this railroad check out the longer caption with this shot: flic.kr/p/2nNXfxP
North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Monday December 12, 2022