Old School GE
Seaview Transportation Company's former US Army 80 Tonner, USAX 1667 (GE blt. Oct. 1952) is switching out the five stub ended tracks inside the Toray Plastics facility inside the Quonset Business Park. 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.
The Seaview is the contract operator of the state owned trackage at Quonset and handles over 8000 cars a year on 7 route miles and 13 track miles of railroad reaching from the Amtrak Northeast Corridor connection in Davisville to tidewater on the west side of Narragansett Bay.
To learn more about this railroad check out the longer caption with this shot: flic.kr/p/2nNXfxP
North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Wednesday January 8, 2025
Old School GE
Seaview Transportation Company's former US Army 80 Tonner, USAX 1667 (GE blt. Oct. 1952) is switching out the five stub ended tracks inside the Toray Plastics facility inside the Quonset Business Park. 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.
The Seaview is the contract operator of the state owned trackage at Quonset and handles over 8000 cars a year on 7 route miles and 13 track miles of railroad reaching from the Amtrak Northeast Corridor connection in Davisville to tidewater on the west side of Narragansett Bay.
To learn more about this railroad check out the longer caption with this shot: flic.kr/p/2nNXfxP
North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Wednesday January 8, 2025