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Train PR3
Title:  Train PR3
Description:  Train PR3 on the Providence and Worcester mainline --- Osram Sylvania/Chace's Lane, Central Falls
Photo Date:  8/29/2006  Upload Date: 8/29/2006 8:58:41 AM
Location:  Central Falls, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  450   Comments: 0
Train PR2
Title:  Train PR2
Description:  Providence and Worcester's train PR2, climbing the grade at Ralco Way on the East Providence Branch
Photo Date:  8/31/2006  Upload Date: 8/31/2006 12:33:16 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  345   Comments: 0
Train PR2
Title:  Train PR2
Description:  Providence and Worcester's train PR2 at the Pawtucket Yards/Boston Ranlway Terminal. Today, they'll pull the empty gondola and slip in those 2 loaded gondolas of steel pipe
Photo Date:  8/31/2006  Upload Date: 8/31/2006 4:10:32 PM
Location:  Pawtucket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  1130   Comments: 0
Providence & Worcester Extra 2009 - MFS-2
Title:  Providence & Worcester Extra 2009 - MFS-2
Description:  Officially called MFS-2 from Worcester, but changed to the PW Extra 2009 at the Boston Switch hot box detector. The 2009 with the 4002 helping are running past Osram Sylvania at Chaces Lane in Central Falls, Rhode Island with empty coal hoppers and loaded ethanol tankers, heading down to the Amtrak Northeast Corridor. Couldn't do it Saturday because of the Bernat Mill fire in Uxbridge, Massachusetts
Photo Date:  7/22/2007  Upload Date: 7/22/2007 6:56:18 PM
Location:  Central Falls, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 2009(GP38-2) PW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  435   Comments: 1
Train NR2
Title:  Train NR2
Description:  Train NR2 slipping in the Amtrak Old Saybrook passenger station
Photo Date:  7/25/2007  Upload Date: 7/25/2007 6:14:41 PM
Location:  Old Saybrook, CT
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  270   Comments: 0
Train NR-2
Title:  Train NR-2
Description:  Providence and Worcester train NR-2 getting their train together on the reconfigured Plainfield Junction minus the old diamond that was removed Thursday
Photo Date:  10/26/2007  Upload Date: 10/26/2007 1:13:04 PM
Location:  Plainfield, CT
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 4002(B40-8) PW 3904(B39-8E)
Views:  1004   Comments: 0
Train NR-2
Title:  Train NR-2
Description:  Train NR-2 hurrying along the curve at the TAR Yard Limits along the Norwich mainline at Plainfield
Photo Date:  10/26/2007  Upload Date: 10/26/2007 7:18:58 PM
Location:  Plainfield, CT
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  830   Comments: 0
Train NR-2 Along the Thames River
Title:  Train NR-2 Along the Thames River
Description:  Hurrying down to Groton, NR-2's running across the causeway, along the Thames River, Stoddard Hill State Park
Photo Date:  10/26/2007  Upload Date: 10/26/2007 1:21:16 PM
Location:  Ledyard, CT
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  853   Comments: 0
MFS-1 Ethanol Extra
Title:  MFS-1 Ethanol Extra
Description:  on the Providence and Worcester Railroad's, Providence main - 80 car ethanol train for Motiva down at the Providjnce Port - seen running thru the Woonsocket Yards at River Street
Photo Date:  3/31/2008  Upload Date: 3/31/2008 2:11:27 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 3907(B39-8E) PW 3007(B30-7AB) PW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  1014   Comments: 1
MFS-1 Ethanol Extra
Title:  MFS-1 Ethanol Extra
Description:  Ethanol extra running on the freight main along the Amtrak Northeast Corridor - 80 car ethanol train for Motiva at the Providence Port rounding the curve at Orm's Interlocking
Photo Date:  3/31/2008  Upload Date: 3/31/2008 2:15:04 PM
Location:  Providence, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 3907(B39-8E) PW 3007(B30-7AB) PW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  741   Comments: 0
Ethanol Extra
Title:  Ethanol Extra
Description:  Providence and Worcester ethanol extra runnong on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor on the third rail freight track - approaching Roger Williams Avenue at mile 181.31
Photo Date:  3/31/2008  Upload Date: 3/31/2008 2:25:04 PM
Location:  Cranston, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 3907(B39-8E) PW 3007(B30-7AB) PW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  556   Comments: 0
Valley Falls Operations Center
Title:  Valley Falls Operations Center
Description:  Providence and Worcester Railroad -- on a gloomy Friday morning, power for PR-2 waiting by the Valley Office
Photo Date:  4/11/2008  Upload Date: 4/11/2008 5:30:19 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  315   Comments: 0
Train PR-2 at Martin Street
Title:  Train PR-2 at Martin Street
Description:  Train PR-2 approaching Martin Street and the Pettibone 360 Rail Handler - 4 gondolas for State Line scrap and 3 MBTA Maxon side dump gondolas loads of concrete ties for the new Mills Siding
Photo Date:  4/11/2008  Upload Date: 4/11/2008 1:36:31 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  767   Comments: 0
Train PR-2 at Martin Street
Title:  Train PR-2 at Martin Street
Description:  Providence and Worcester Railroad -- PR-2 slowly running thru the Martin Street work area - note the MBTA side dumps on the storage track
Photo Date:  4/15/2008  Upload Date: 4/15/2008 7:43:07 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  425   Comments: 0
Train PR-2 at the Woonsocket Yard at River Street
Title:  Train PR-2 at the Woonsocket Yard at River Street
Description:  Dean's at the throttle today, tugging a loaded hopper - they'll slip that over to the Ralco siding on my left
Photo Date:  4/15/2008  Upload Date: 4/15/2008 5:18:44 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  516   Comments: 0
Ethanol Extra
Title:  Ethanol Extra
Description:  Were at the bottom of Manville Hill Road - along the fenced bike/walking path, the ethanol extra from Worcester, Massachusetts, hurrying thru the sleepy village of Manville on a quiet Sunday Morning, on the way to Providence and Worcester's South Providence yard and Motiva Enterprises with 80 or so cars of ethanol
Photo Date:  4/27/2008  Upload Date: 5/26/2008 1:13:34 PM
Location:  Lincoln, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 3907(B39-8E) PW 4003(B40-8) PW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  816   Comments: 2
Ethanol Extra
Title:  Ethanol Extra
Description:  With permission to run thru Providence Union Station, ethanol extra from Worcester, Massachusetts, winding its way thru Amtrak's Orms Interlocking. They're heading for Providence and Worcester's South Providence yard and Motiva Enterprises with 80 or so cars of ethanol
Photo Date:  4/27/2008  Upload Date: 5/26/2008 1:14:54 PM
Location:  Providence, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 3907(B39-8E) PW 4003(B40-8) PW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  674   Comments: 0
Ethanol Extra
Title:  Ethanol Extra
Description:  Ethanol extra from Worcester, Massachusetts, running under symbol MFS-8 - they're running past the Uxbridge Hot Box Detector - all clear thru the detector, they're heading for Providence and Worcester's South Providence yard and Motiva Enterprises
Photo Date:  5/18/2008  Upload Date: 5/26/2008 1:59:24 PM
Location:  Uxbridge, MA
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 4002(B40-8) PW 3904(B39-8E) PW 2011(GP38) PW 3908(B39-8E)
Views:  1113   Comments: 0
Ethanol Extra
Title:  Ethanol Extra
Description:  Ethanol extra from Worcester, Massachusetts, running under symbol MFS-8 - they're running past Osram Sylvania at Chase's Lane. Around the bend on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, they'll change symbol to PW Extra, down to Providence and Worcester's renovated South Providence Yard and Motiva Enterprises
Photo Date:  5/18/2008  Upload Date: 5/26/2008 1:45:59 PM
Location:  Central Falls, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 4002(B40-8) PW 3904(B39-8E) PW 2011(GP38) PW 3908(B39-8E)
Views:  885   Comments: 2
MFS-7 Ethanol Extra - Valley Falls Yard
Title:  MFS-7 Ethanol Extra - Valley Falls Yard
Description:  Where else but on the Providence and Worcester Railroad, with a nice mix of GE's in A-B-B-B-A combination, running thru the Valley Falls yard under the historic Church Street bridge with around 80 loads of ethanol
Photo Date:  10/27/2008  Upload Date: 10/27/2008 10:30:11 AM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 4002(B40-8) PW 3007(B30-7AB) PW 3006(B30-7AB) PW 3004(B30-7AB) PW 3905(B39-8E)
Views:  720   Comments: 3
Train PR-2
Title:  Train PR-2
Description:  Action at northern end of the Valley yard - done for the day, throwing the switch, PR-2 will head down to the Valley engine house
Photo Date:  5/29/2009  Upload Date: 5/29/2009 6:07:49 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  211   Comments: 0
Train PR-2
Title:  Train PR-2
Description:  Heading down thru the yard for the Valley engine house
Photo Date:  5/29/2009  Upload Date: 5/29/2009 6:08:57 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 2011(GP38) PW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  215   Comments: 0
K662 Ethanol Extra
Title:  K662 Ethanol Extra
Description:  Heading for Providence, Rhode Island and Motiva, K662 Ethanol Extra running under the Ashton Viaduct - Route 116
Photo Date:  3/23/2010  Upload Date: 3/23/2010 11:34:42 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 3902(B39-8E) PW 3005(B30-7AB) PW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  513   Comments: 0
A Nice Surprise
Title:  A Nice Surprise
Description:  A nice surprise -- the 4003's first vist to Valley Falls. Seen at 6:45 Tuesday morning fresh from train WOPR from Worcester. The 4003 has been power washed - you can smell something like Mr Clean that was used to wash the 4003
Photo Date:  10/18/2005  Upload Date: 10/19/2005 3:50:39 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 4003(B40-8)
Views:  1074   Comments: 0
PW 4003
Title:  PW 4003
Description:  The 4003's first vist to Valley Falls. Seen around 7:15 in the rain Tuesday Morning, the 4003's getting train PR3 ready
Photo Date:  10/18/2005  Upload Date: 10/19/2005 3:53:25 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 4003(B40-8)
Views:  1089   Comments: 0
PW 4003
Title:  PW 4003
Description:  Appeared in Railpace --- The 4003's first vist to Valley Falls. Its the trailing locomotive at the Valley Falls yard for train PR3 fresh from the Port of Providence with around 20 loads of coal
Photo Date:  10/18/2005  Upload Date: 10/19/2005 3:56:11 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 4003(B40-8)
Views:  1461   Comments: 2
PW 4003
Title:  PW 4003
Description:  First day down in the Valley! Engineer doesn't like his photo taken and was about to close the windows when I motioned for him to pose. Well I got the posed photo and he got the only print that I had made
Photo Date:  10/18/2005  Upload Date: 5/3/2006 4:51:38 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 4003(B40-8)
Views:  1192   Comments: 0
PW 4003
Title:  PW 4003
Description:  The 4003's first vist to Valley Falls. Done for the day the 4003's parked on the East Providence Branch. Looking real good, its been power washed
Photo Date:  10/18/2005  Upload Date: 10/19/2005 3:57:50 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 4003(B40-8)
Views:  785   Comments: 0
PW 4003
Title:  PW 4003
Description:  The 4003's first vist to Valley Falls. Done for the day the 4003's parked on the East Providence Branch. The other 2 locomotives from PR3 are coupled in preparation for the nightly train PRWO
Photo Date:  10/18/2005  Upload Date: 10/19/2005 3:59:51 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 4003(B40-8)
Views:  875   Comments: 0
PW 4003
Title:  PW 4003
Description:  Nite shot of the 4003 Tuesday nite
Photo Date:  10/18/2005  Upload Date: 10/19/2005 5:34:26 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 4003(B40-8)
Views:  826   Comments: 0
PW 4003
Title:  PW 4003
Description:  Wednesday's power for train PR3 included the GP38-2 2009, the B30-7A 3004 and the B40-8 4003 - ex NYS&W 4006
Photo Date:  10/19/2005  Upload Date: 10/19/2005 4:01:59 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 3004(B30-7AB) PW 4003(B40-8)
Views:  1319   Comments: 0
PW 4003
Title:  PW 4003
Description:  Having a good day, the 4003 how she looks today!
Photo Date:  10/19/2005  Upload Date: 10/19/2005 4:04:23 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 4003(B40-8)
Views:  802   Comments: 0
Not Having a good day
Title:  Not Having a good day
Description:  The 4003 - NYS&W 4006 not having a good day on this Tri-State, NHRS fan trip at Vernon, New Jersey! Still new, on a July 1988 fan trip, a dump truck decided it could beat the train. This unit got the nickname "Bash 8"
Photo Date:  10/19/2005  Upload Date: 10/19/2005 4:04:36 PM
Location:  Vernon, NJ
Author:  unknown
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Locomotives:  PW 4003(B40-8) NYSW 4006(B40-8)
Views:  1869   Comments: 7
East Providence Branch and Pawtucket Highway
Title:  East Providence Branch and Pawtucket Highway
Description:  the 4003 crossing the Amtrak Northeast Corridor and also the state line back into Rhode Island. PR2's crossing Roosevelt Avenue and the start of the Pawtucket Highway part of the East Providence Branch
Photo Date:  10/20/2005  Upload Date: 10/23/2005 9:30:56 AM
Location:  Pawtucket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 4003(B40-8)
Views:  958   Comments: 0
PW 4003
Title:  PW 4003
Description:  Train PR2 at the Valley Falls office with a few loads of steel. Because the length of the I beams, there's idler flats between each load
Photo Date:  10/20/2005  Upload Date: 10/23/2005 9:26:07 AM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 4003(B40-8)
Views:  788   Comments: 0
PW 4003
Title:  PW 4003
Description:  ah my favorite spot for photos! Train PR2's at Chaces Lane on the way to Boston Switch and the Amtrak Northeast Corridor.
Photo Date:  10/20/2005  Upload Date: 10/23/2005 9:28:24 AM
Location:  Central Falls, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 4003(B40-8)
Views:  810   Comments: 1
PW 4003
Title:  PW 4003
Description:  Train PR2 on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor heading down probably to switch out the Providence Journal as the boy's are still unloading steel in back of me at Pawtucket Yards. The other track is out of service between Boston Switch and Lawn Tower because of the track construction at Pawtucket Depot
Photo Date:  10/20/2005  Upload Date: 10/23/2005 9:36:09 AM
Location:  Pawtucket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 4003(B40-8)
Views:  754   Comments: 0
PW 3903
Title:  PW 3903
Description:  The 3903 and the "Bumble Bee" getting ready for train PR2 at the Valley engine house
Photo Date:  10/20/2005  Upload Date: 10/23/2005 12:53:12 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 3903(B39-8E) PW 4003(B40-8)
Views:  1265   Comments: 0
PW 4003
Title:  PW 4003
Description:  Roof detail and a look at some of the steel in the Valley yard
Photo Date:  10/20/2005  Upload Date: 10/23/2005 12:54:35 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 3903(B39-8E) PW 4003(B40-8)
Views:  1241   Comments: 0
PW 4003
Title:  PW 4003
Description:  Train PR2 with the 4003 approaching Martin Street in the Berkely section of Cumberland to service KIK Custom Products at reduced speed because the wash-out earlier in the week
Photo Date:  10/20/2005  Upload Date: 10/22/2005 5:51:38 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 4003(B40-8)
Views:  804   Comments: 1
PW 4003
Title:  PW 4003
Description:  As its known by the crew - The Bumble Bee! The 4003's at the old Lonsdale Freight at Ann and Hope Way in the Lonsdale Section of Cumberland
Photo Date:  10/31/2005  Upload Date: 11/5/2005 5:46:51 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 4003(B40-8)
Views:  864   Comments: 0
PW 4003
Title:  PW 4003
Description:  Train PR2 with the 4003 north of Mendon Road on the way to KIK Custom Products
Photo Date:  11/1/2005  Upload Date: 11/6/2005 11:49:10 AM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 4003(B40-8)
Views:  776   Comments: 0
Train PR3
Title:  Train PR3
Description:  Hard to tell who the 4003 belongs too, but it is indeed a Providence and Worcester loco. The paint has worn from the nose exposing its previous operator. Power for the June 30th train, PR3
Photo Date:  6/30/2006  Upload Date: 6/30/2006 7:59:38 AM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 4003(B40-8) PW 3007(B30-7AB) PW 2008(GP38-2)
Views:  1083   Comments: 2
PW 2008
Title:  PW 2008
Description:  Last day of June with PR3 getting their train together in the Valley Falls yard
Photo Date:  6/30/2006  Upload Date: 6/30/2006 8:00:27 AM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 2008(GP38-2) PW 3007(B30-7AB) PW 4003(B40-8)
Views:  882   Comments: 1
PW 4003
Title:  PW 4003
Description:  showing off its former owner's colors, the back side with spray painted PW
Photo Date:  6/30/2006  Upload Date: 6/30/2006 9:07:50 AM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 4003(B40-8)
Views:  684   Comments: 0
PW 4003
Title:  PW 4003
Description:  Back from Davisville and the Port of Providence with around 5 cars, PR3's almost back home in Valley Falls, having crossed High Street in Central Falls
Photo Date:  6/30/2006  Upload Date: 6/30/2006 2:25:33 PM
Location:  Central Falls, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 4003(B40-8) PW 3007(B30-7AB) PW 2008(GP38-2)
Views:  954   Comments: 1
PW 3007
Title:  PW 3007
Description:  2 of the locomotives from PR3 are switching over to the house track. The 4003 and 2008 will be slipped into the barn, while the 3007 will be left at the crossties
Photo Date:  6/30/2006  Upload Date: 6/30/2006 2:26:50 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 3007(B30-7AB) PW 4003(B40-8)
Views:  854   Comments: 0
PW 4003
Title:  PW 4003
Description:  Providence and Worcester's train PR2 at Ann and Hope Way in the Lonsdale section of Cumberland on the way to service Ralco in Woonsocket
Photo Date:  7/3/2006  Upload Date: 7/3/2006 11:46:04 AM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 4003(B40-8)
Views:  734   Comments: 1
PW 4003
Title:  PW 4003
Description:  Woonsocket Yards and the Slatersville Branch --- PR2's doing their set and release before heading back to Valley Falls and the East Providence Branch
Photo Date:  7/3/2006  Upload Date: 7/3/2006 11:47:41 AM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 4003(B40-8)
Views:  699   Comments: 0
Train PRWO
Title:  Train PRWO
Description:  Providence and Wprcester power by the barn for tonights train PRWO, from Valley Falls to Worcester
Photo Date:  7/3/2006  Upload Date: 7/3/2006 6:04:20 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 4003(B40-8)
Views:  635   Comments: 0


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