WONR
Providence and Worcester Railroad road freight WONR is at MP 43 on the Norwich Branch mainline, the historic Norwich and Worcester Railroad which opened through here in 1840. They are heading back south 40 miles to their home terminal of Plainfield, CT after making a turn up to Worcester put have paused here to pull and spot Impact Plastics less than a half mile to the north and will pause again just ahead to work International Paper before continuing south.
Leading the way are four four motor GEs, two in Genesee and Wyoming orange and two in original PW red and brown. 3910 on the point is an ex LMX General Electric B39-8E, part of a group of 102 built in 1987-88 for GE's leasing arm and immediately put on long term lease to Burlington Northern. PW picked up six of them around 2001, but this particular one came to the road later as a replacement for 3908 that was damaged in 2019. 3910 looks fresh because it was only just renumbered and painted in June 2022. Prior to that it still wore LMX gray and its original number, 8534, as an RLCX and then NREX lease unit before spending some time in the Silvis deadline.
Putnam, Connecticut
Friday March 3, 2023
WONR
Providence and Worcester Railroad road freight WONR is at MP 43 on the Norwich Branch mainline, the historic Norwich and Worcester Railroad which opened through here in 1840. They are heading back south 40 miles to their home terminal of Plainfield, CT after making a turn up to Worcester put have paused here to pull and spot Impact Plastics less than a half mile to the north and will pause again just ahead to work International Paper before continuing south.
Leading the way are four four motor GEs, two in Genesee and Wyoming orange and two in original PW red and brown. 3910 on the point is an ex LMX General Electric B39-8E, part of a group of 102 built in 1987-88 for GE's leasing arm and immediately put on long term lease to Burlington Northern. PW picked up six of them around 2001, but this particular one came to the road later as a replacement for 3908 that was damaged in 2019. 3910 looks fresh because it was only just renumbered and painted in June 2022. Prior to that it still wore LMX gray and its original number, 8534, as an RLCX and then NREX lease unit before spending some time in the Silvis deadline.
Putnam, Connecticut
Friday March 3, 2023