Something New For Rhode Island's Rails
Resting in Mass Coastal Railroad's Wharf Yard is a GE 80 tonner built in July 1941 as the 5th of the model off the production line and originally numbered GE 14 and serving at the company's Schenectady Works. Rebuilt in the late 1980s it later served at Northeast Utilities West Springfield power plant, though after coal and oil fired units 1 and 2 were shut down in 1999 the locomotive had no purpose.
It sat on site for more than two decades until purchased by the Newport and Narragansett Bay Railroad ultimately destined for use in Newport, Rhode Island on that railroad's growing dinner and excursion train operations. Fully operational, it is expected to enter service as soon as it gets over to Aquidneck Island. Alas, despite being only three rail miles from its new home, it will have to be trucked there due to the track from this point south being out of service with no bridge over Tiverton Narrows as I described in the caption with this photo: flic.kr/p/2oGLGq6.
Fall River, Massachusetts
Friday September 1, 2023
Something New For Rhode Island's Rails
Resting in Mass Coastal Railroad's Wharf Yard is a GE 80 tonner built in July 1941 as the 5th of the model off the production line and originally numbered GE 14 and serving at the company's Schenectady Works. Rebuilt in the late 1980s it later served at Northeast Utilities West Springfield power plant, though after coal and oil fired units 1 and 2 were shut down in 1999 the locomotive had no purpose.
It sat on site for more than two decades until purchased by the Newport and Narragansett Bay Railroad ultimately destined for use in Newport, Rhode Island on that railroad's growing dinner and excursion train operations. Fully operational, it is expected to enter service as soon as it gets over to Aquidneck Island. Alas, despite being only three rail miles from its new home, it will have to be trucked there due to the track from this point south being out of service with no bridge over Tiverton Narrows as I described in the caption with this photo: flic.kr/p/2oGLGq6.
Fall River, Massachusetts
Friday September 1, 2023