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I noticed what look like ribbons in the sea, tracing out a meandering path. I think they're water currents indicating tidal flow.
Lone tree at Haugheia, Gravdal in Lofoten. The trees here are weathered, and grow in the direction the wind blows them.
Edit: Darkened the sky, added some colour. Lightened the foreground. on1 perfect effects 9
I swung by the Seaview after running an errand in hopes of getting some new angles but alas didn't have much luck so grabbed just one spot before heading home.
In the late 1970s Rhode Island was known for having a handful of tiny independent shortlines including the Narragansett Pier Railroad, the Moshassuck Valley Railroad, and the Warwick Railroad. The former was abandoned in its entirety and the two latter were bought by the reborn Providence and Worcester as it grew into a New England regional. And for most railfans when they think freight railroading in the Ocean State the P&W is what comes to mind.
But my home state has another little known railroad. A bit longer than those historic roads, the Seaview Transportation Company is Rhode Island's own. It operates entirely within the confines of the former Quonset Point Naval Air Station and adjacent Naval Construction Battalion Center Davisville. The former closed in 1974 and the latter in 1994. A decade later the Quonset Development Corporation was formed by the state and growth was strategically planned to bring industry back to RI.
The Seaview was a big part of that growth with over 14 miles of rail on the park comprising much of the former naval railroad infrastructure and new build trackage to support customer needs. The Seaview was formed in 1978 and operates as basically a contract switching company for the park. Technically the P&W is the billing party (the Seaview is not an interline settlement carrier) and the Seaview handles switching services for all customers on the park. They also operate a small contract repair shop that has been used recently to support the MBTA's PTC fleet upgrades.
An interesting personal connection for me is that the owner and President of the Seaview is Eric Moffett who gave me my start in the rail industry more than 20 years ago. In 1998 he was head of marketing for Railtex's three year old New England Central and hired me as a summer intern in Palmer, MA in 1998 between my Junior and Senior year.
Fast forward to 2012 and he purchased the little used Seaview and has since grown it into an industrial powerhouse and by far the largest originator of rail traffic in the state of Rhode Island. Rostering an eclectic fleet including a pair of vintage EMD switchers, a pair of centercab GE 80 tonners of US military provenance and a dimutive two axle 25 tonner it's this unit that is the real work horse. Seaview 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 different shortlines until coming to Rhode Island in 2006 where she was given this snappy paint job.
Here they are doing a bit of switching on the Davisville Branch side in this view looking west off the Romano Vineyard Way overpass.
North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Thursday December 1, 2022
As far as the UK market is concerned Van Rooijen certainly chose the right name for this model "Odyssee"
This remained in the Seaview fleet for less than a year so I was more than lucky to catch Volvo B10M B24NPE in Westminster in November 1985.
The coachwork has a strange to sort of attraction.
Rhode Island's own railroad
In the late 1970s Rhode Island was known for having a handful of tiny independent shortlines including the Narragansett Pier Railroad, the Moshassuck Valley Railroad, and the Warwick Railroad. The former was abandoned in its entirety and the two latter were bought by the reborn Providence and Worcester as it grew into a New England regional. And for most railfans when they think freight railroading in the Ocean State the P&W is what comes to mind.
But my home state has another little known railroad. A bit longer than those historic roads, the Seaview Transportation Company is Rhode Island's own. It operates entirely within the confines of the former Quonset Point Naval Air Station and adjacent Naval Construction Battalion Center Davisville. The former closed in 1974 and the latter in 1994. A decade later the Quonset Development Corporation was formed by the state and growth was strategically planned to bring industry back to RI.
The Seaview was a big part of that growth with over 14 miles of rail on the park comprising much of the former naval railroad infrastructure and new build trackage to support customer needs. The Seaview was formed in 1978 and operates as basically a contract switching company for the park. Technically the P&W is the billing party (the Seaview is not an interline settlement carrier) and the Seaview handles switching services for all customers on the park. They also operate a small contract repair shop that has been used recently to support the MBTA's PTC fleet upgrades.
An interesting personal connection for me is that the owner and President of the Seaview is Eric Moffett who gave me my start in the rail industry more than 20 years ago. In 1998 he was head of marketing for Railtex's three year old New England Central and hired me as a summer intern in Palmer, MA in 1998 between my Junior and Senior year.
Fast forward to 2012 and he purchased the little used Seaview and has since grown it into an Industrial powerhouse and by far the largest originator of rail traffic in the state of Rhode Island.
GP10 1855 came to the Seaview in 2006 and is the main "road" power. She was built as a GP9 for the B&O in 1956. On this hazy and humid late summer day while home from Alaska visiting I stopped by for a visit and Eric took me on a tour of the line running light engine down both branches. The Seaview is shaped like a Y with the south leg reaching to Quonset Point and the north leg reaching to the Port of Davisville. Here we are nearly at the end of the north leg. We have run the geep out past the NORAD auto lots and are by the gate where the rails continue on to the dock extending out into Narragansett Bay. Note: the UP reefer spotted on the Seafreeze Ltd. spur. They are the largest producer and trader of frozen seafood on the US east coast.
North Kingstown, RI
Tuesday September 18, 2012
I could be happy here.
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Seaview's history began in 1859 when Jonathan Stout, a cooper from Ohio, arrived on the Long Beach Peninsula.
In 1880 he purchased 153 acres along the ocean front with plans for a summer resort. He ran through several names for the resort—Stout's, Ocean View, North Pacific Beach, and finally Sea View.
He built a hotel a few hundred feet from the mean high tide line with an ocean view across the driftwood that accumulated every winter. A half mile of accreted sand covered with trees now separate the hotel's site from the ocean due to the effects of the North Jetty at the mouth of the Columbia River.
Stout recorded his townsite at the Pacific County courthouse in October 1881 and soon began selling lots. Most were fifty by one hundred feet and sold for one hundred dollars. To build a cottage on a lot cost between two and three hundred dollars.
They were board-and-batten on the outside, with no insulation or interior plasterwork. Many Portlanders purchased lots and built houses in Seaview throughout the 1880s and early 1890s, until the Panic of 1893 put a damper on such luxuries.
Most of those who built summer homes in Seaview would ride a steamboat down the Columbia River to Astoria on the Oregon side where they would disembark and board a smaller steamboat to take them across the river to Ilwaco. There they could transfer their trunks to a wagon and be drawn by horses the rest of the way. The wagon route went through the woods on a plank road to the "weather beach," and then along the beach to Seaview.
In 1889 the Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company began regular service on a narrow gauge railroad that ran up the Long Beach Peninsula to Nahcotta. The Seaview depot—no more than a shed and platform at first—was near Stout's hotel, the "Sea View House."
With railway service, summering families could board the railcars right on the Ilwaco docks for the trip up the peninsula. In 1885, many hundreds of people were estimated to be coming to the peninsula for summer vacation. In 1900, the South Bend Journal reported that the number of summer vacationers had grown to 20,000.
In 1892 US Senator and Portland businessman Henry Winslow Corbett built a vacation home in Seaview on three acres facing the ocean. This summer home, which he named Westborough House, included the main three-story house with a ballroom on the second floor as well as housing for the servants and a stable for horses and carriages. A cow accompanied the family for its summer sojourn on the peninsula so they would always have fresh milk.
In the late 1930s the property left the Corbett family and became the Grandview Lodge, welcoming tourists with rooms in the main house and cabins on the grounds. Grandview Lodge is now the Sou'wester Lodge, still an imposing sight on the Seaview beach approach. It has often functioned as a cultural center in Seaview, hosting lectures, literary events, topical discussions, dramatic performances, and chamber concerts. The Corbett pasture is now an RV park and campground.
In 1905 a regular depot was built at Seaview on the east side of the tracks. The Seaview Depot's front doors opened toward the north onto the main Seaview beach approach road, and a long wooden boardwalk ran along the tracks on the west side of the depot and past adjoining businesses to the south end of the block. Departing passengers stood on the boardwalk the length of the block awaiting a train's arrival.
Two photos of the depot from 1908 and 1910 show three or four businesses on the boardwalk south of the depot. The photos, linked below, show no business names, but there appear to be an ice cream shop, an "Oyster House and Lunch Room," and a fish market. The first photo shows a train approaching the station from the south. The second photo shows a train heading north as it departs the station.
In each photo, the same two children in the same outfits are looking at the photographer from the west side of the tracks. Despite the labeling of one photo as "circa 1910" and the other as "circa 1908," the photos were apparently taken only minutes apart on the same day.
The Seaview depot building still exists, and is now a restaurant. The Hotel Shelburne, built in Seaview in 1896, still exists today as the Shelburne Country Inn. Other hotels in Seaview included the Hackney Cottage, Sunset Hotel, The Hotel Seaview and The Sou'Wester Inn.
The views of Seaview, Clifton....!!
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TED: "It's me last day in Pefkos fer this year, so I've treated meself to a pita gyros an' a beer at Seaview Taverna. There's a bit of salad in the gyros but that's tradishunal so I'll tuff it out an' eat it like a Greek. Of corse, there's chips too so it ain't so bad. Add a dollop of tzatziki an' bob's yer uncle!"
Never mind the weathered, vintage sign. Not only is the Seaview Motel still a going concern, the "No Vacancy" light was on in the office window when I photographed it yesterday.
I have a feeling that the stenciled "FREE WI FI" sign is covering the original text, "Color TV."
Wi-fi is not the only way the motel is keeping up with the times. It also has a Web presence. Based on what The Seaview Motel has to say about itself, it would be an pleasant alternative to a chain motel:
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[We] . . . would like to welcome you to the Seaview Motel and Cottages. Located within walking distance of the world’s longest driveable beach, the Seaview Motel offers charming rooms and cottages at affordable prices.
We have WIFI. All of our cottages include a refrigerator, microwave, in-room coffee, and cable TV. Some cottages have kitchens, we also have an outdoor fire pit, BBQ’s and picnic tables available for use.
The Seaview Motel is located within walking distance of the Tourist Information center, Sid’s Grocery store and several restaurants. Highway 101 is one block north of the motel and we are convenient to many of the Peninsula’s most popular activities.
At the Seaview Motel, we are family and pet friendly, so please bring your kids, dogs, and sense of adventure and enjoy what we feel is the most beautiful place in the world!
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Explore all that Long Beach Peninsula has to offer. Whether it is to walk the trails that Lewis and Clark’s party did 200 years ago or just to enjoy some family time at the beach, we are conveniently located for all of your Long Beach Peninsula events activities and attractions.
It’s ok if it’s raining outside, you’ll have a cozy place to sit back with some popcorn and find a movie or borrow one of our games from the office.
And if it’s not raining you are a short 5 minute walk to 26 miles of beach, some of the best restaurants and antiques stores. Just slightly farther away is Cape Disappointment State Park, Port of Ilwaco, Lewis and Clark Station Camp, City of Long Beach, City of Ilwaco, Oysterville, Town of Ocean Park, Leadbetter Point State Park, Willapa Wildlife Refuge, Willapa Bay, Columbia River…
A spring low tide and a beautiful sunset enabled me to get some great shots of the boats at Seaview. Despite only having my Sony RX100 compact with me I was very pleased with the results. The good citizens at Seaview must have wondered what the strange man was doing standing next to one of their boats for over an hour!