Critter Corner
Parked on stub ended track 9 in West Davisville Yard beside the Seaview Transportation Company's new shop are two of their little GE switchers, a 65 tonner and a 25 tonner that looks tiny by comparison
The owner of Rhode Island's Seaview Transportation Company and sister tourist operation Newport and Narragansett Bay Railroad added to his expanding collection of center cab locomotives in 2024 by purchasing two former US Navy units that had been long based at Portsmouth Navy Yard but were replaced in recent years by a car mover. They are both GE 65-tonners, USN 65-00308 and USN 65-00566, built in 1945 and 1943, respectively. The latter was trucked to the isolated trackage on Aquidneck Island where it is service pulling the Grand Bellevue Dinner Train. The former has just recently been put back in operation joining the Seaview's former US Army 80-tonner cousin, 1667, in revenue freight service here at the busy Quonset Business Park.
At left is a dimutive two axle GE 25-tonner of unknown heritage that last worked on the defunct Kosciusko and Southwestern Railroad in Mississippi. It has recently been painted in this Seaview 'heritage' scheme paying tribute to the former owner of the line, Pete Verges who also ran the Narragansett Pier Railroad during its last years.
North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Wednesday January 8, 2025
Critter Corner
Parked on stub ended track 9 in West Davisville Yard beside the Seaview Transportation Company's new shop are two of their little GE switchers, a 65 tonner and a 25 tonner that looks tiny by comparison
The owner of Rhode Island's Seaview Transportation Company and sister tourist operation Newport and Narragansett Bay Railroad added to his expanding collection of center cab locomotives in 2024 by purchasing two former US Navy units that had been long based at Portsmouth Navy Yard but were replaced in recent years by a car mover. They are both GE 65-tonners, USN 65-00308 and USN 65-00566, built in 1945 and 1943, respectively. The latter was trucked to the isolated trackage on Aquidneck Island where it is service pulling the Grand Bellevue Dinner Train. The former has just recently been put back in operation joining the Seaview's former US Army 80-tonner cousin, 1667, in revenue freight service here at the busy Quonset Business Park.
At left is a dimutive two axle GE 25-tonner of unknown heritage that last worked on the defunct Kosciusko and Southwestern Railroad in Mississippi. It has recently been painted in this Seaview 'heritage' scheme paying tribute to the former owner of the line, Pete Verges who also ran the Narragansett Pier Railroad during its last years.
North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Wednesday January 8, 2025