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PW 161
Title:  PW 161
Description:  Here's all 5 Providence and Worcester RS3's leased from the Delaware and Hudson for $85 a day getting ready at the Colonie Shops for their trip on the Boston and Maine to Worcester
Photo Date:  1/31/1973  Upload Date: 1/23/2006 5:43:34 PM
Location:  Colonie, NY
Author:  Jim Shaughnessy
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Locomotives:  PW 162(RS3) PW 161(RS3)
Views:  2099   Comments: 0
PW 161
Title:  PW 161
Description:  Providence and Worcester RS3 161 and caboose No 3 are ready at the Worcester engine house for the maiden run to Woonsocket, Rhode Island for the inauguration ceremonies
Photo Date:  2/2/1973  Upload Date: 1/23/2006 5:48:36 PM
Location:  Worcester, MA
Author:  Jim Shaughnessy
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Locomotives:  PW 161(RS3)
Views:  1722   Comments: 0
PW 161
Title:  PW 161
Description:  Inaugural run at Greenwood Avenue, leaving Worcester, Massachusetts. Outside of 2 reporters Phil was allowed to ride down to the ceremony at Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Photo Date:  2/3/1973  Upload Date: 1/23/2006 12:35:24 PM
Location:  Worcester, MA
Author:  William G. Dulmaine, Jr.
Categories:  Bridge
Locomotives:  PW 161(RS3)
Views:  3401   Comments: 4
PW 161
Title:  PW 161
Description:  Are you here? Inauguration ceremonies after gaining they're independence from Penn Central at River Street, Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Photo Date:  2/3/1973  Upload Date: 1/23/2006 5:59:07 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Jim Shaughnessy
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Locomotives:  PW 161(RS3)
Views:  2214   Comments: 0
PW 161
Title:  PW 161
Description:  Inauguration ceremonies after gaining they're independence from Penn Central at River Street, Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Robert H. Eder at the microphone and Herbert Bixler, a consultant on the left
Photo Date:  2/3/1973  Upload Date: 1/23/2006 6:02:28 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Jim Shaughnessy
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Locomotives:  PW 161(RS3)
Views:  1768   Comments: 0
PW 161
Title:  PW 161
Description:  Providence and Worcester train PW-5 at the Church Street bridge, getting ready to leave the Valley Falls yard with the first northbound train
Photo Date:  2/3/1973  Upload Date: 1/23/2006 6:05:54 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Jim Shaughnessy
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Locomotives:  PW 165(RS3) PW 161(RS3)
Views:  2497   Comments: 0
Phil's Caboose
Title:  Phil's Caboose
Description:  ex Delaware and Hudson caboose owned by Phil at the Millbury yard
Photo Date:  9/1/1981  Upload Date: 7/4/2006 5:49:17 PM
Location:  Millbury, MA
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 161(RS3)
Views:  1377   Comments: 0
PW 162
Title:  PW 162
Description:  In this 1974 photo, the 162's at Apex at Armistice Boulevard with a now defunct Atlantic Department Store on the corner
Photo Date:  10/14/1973  Upload Date: 10/14/2005 6:16:54 PM
Location:  Pawtucket, RI
Author:  RailAfan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 162(RS3)
Views:  1107   Comments: 0
PW 162
Title:  PW 162
Description:  Seen on the Pawtucket Highway or East Providence Running track. From the looks of it there gonna switch Hasbro on the left.
Photo Date:  10/14/1973  Upload Date: 7/3/2005 12:38:30 PM
Location:  Pawtucket, RI
Author:  RailAfan
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Locomotives:  PW 162(RS3)
Views:  1196   Comments: 0
PW 162
Title:  PW 162
Description:  In this April, 1974 slide. When the Providence and Worcester started, they leased 5 Alco Rs3's from the Delaware and Hudson. All painted in the handsome white, brown and orange. 162 is seen on the East Providence Running Track at American Wire, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. There's a box car at American Wire
Photo Date:  10/14/1973  Upload Date: 7/1/2005 6:31:27 PM
Location:  Pawtucket, RI
Author:  RailAfan
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Locomotives:  PW 162(RS3)
Views:  1434   Comments: 0
PW 162
Title:  PW 162
Description:  Providence and Worcester freight crossing the Blackstone River - I understand the author had to stand in the cold Blackstone for this photo
Photo Date:  11/1/1973  Upload Date: 5/15/2006 1:40:53 PM
Location:  Millbury, MA
Author:  William G. Dulmaine, Jr
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 162(RS3) PW 4094(RS3)
Views:  2572   Comments: 2
PW 163
Title:  PW 163
Description:  The 163 in the snow by the Valley office. Interesting photo - over by them distant poles is the old green New Haven maintenance of way building that would latter burn down on Titus Street
Photo Date:  2/1/1974  Upload Date: 1/28/2006 6:14:08 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Philip M. Paradis
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Locomotives:  PW 163(RS3)
Views:  1085   Comments: 1
PW 163
Title:  PW 163
Description:  Its cold with them icicles hanging from the office roof. When clean it's a handsome color scheme, but the white was a bear to keep clean! There's a train on the East Providence
Photo Date:  2/1/1974  Upload Date: 1/28/2006 6:17:40 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Philip M. Paradis
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 163(RS3)
Views:  1029   Comments: 0
PW 165
Title:  PW 165
Description:  5 Providence and Worcester RS3's on the Boston and Maine mainline at Charlemont, Massachusetts, heading down to their new home in Worcester. Note only the numbers were applied by the Delaware and Hudson, with names applied by Providence and Worcester shop personnel
Photo Date:  2/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/21/2006 1:39:08 PM
Location:  Charlemont, MA
Author:  William G. Dulmaine, Jr.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 165(RS3)
Views:  2788   Comments: 2
First Official Train
Title:  First Official Train
Description:  Actual first Providence and Worcester train running thru Woonsocket Station at 7:30 am --- reason to have equipment in Valley Falls. Locomotives 165, 162 and caboose, with Engineer Barry Casey at the controls
Photo Date:  2/3/1973  Upload Date: 7/4/2006 10:29:41 AM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Jim Shaughnessy
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Locomotives:  PW 165(RS3)
Views:  1349   Comments: 0
PW 165
Title:  PW 165
Description:  From a slide collection I have. Unfortunately its a poor slide. Seen on the Wrentham Branch after the Providence and Worcester resumed operations. Boy to see 3 of these moving some freight!
Photo Date:  10/14/1973  Upload Date: 7/3/2005 9:42:35 AM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  RailAfan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 165(RS3)
Views:  1186   Comments: 0
PW 165
Title:  PW 165
Description:  From a slide collection I have. Seen on the East Providence Running Track after the Providence and Worcester resumed operations. The white proved a bear to keep clean, but they were handsome and brought out the classic lines of the ALCO RS3
Photo Date:  10/14/1973  Upload Date: 7/3/2005 11:24:02 AM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  RailAfan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 165(RS3)
Views:  1114   Comments: 0
PW 165
Title:  PW 165
Description:  3 classic RS3's resting on what is now called the House Track. Phil's standing on the mainline taking this photo. The signal for the approach to Boston Switch for the mainline. Over the 165's horn is the dummy mast for the house track.
Photo Date:  2/1/1974  Upload Date: 1/28/2006 6:16:27 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Philip M. Paradis
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 165(RS3)
Views:  1308   Comments: 0
PW 165
Title:  PW 165
Description:  The 165 working Denman and Davis (the old Edgecomb Steel) on the Slatersville branch. They're pulling an empty flat from the warehouse
Photo Date:  4/14/1974  Upload Date: 1/31/2006 6:59:11 PM
Location:  Slatersville, RI
Author:  Philip M. Paradis
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Locomotives:  PW 165(RS3)
Views:  1261   Comments: 0
PW 165
Title:  PW 165
Description:  The end of the line for the Woonsocket end of the Slatersville Branch - Winter Street yard
Photo Date:  4/14/1974  Upload Date: 2/2/2006 5:24:14 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Philip M. Paradis
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Locomotives:  PW 165(RS3)
Views:  1242   Comments: 0
PW 165 and its time for lunch
Title:  PW 165 and its time for lunch
Description:  crew gone to beans at the Winter Street yard in Woonsocket - looks like a flat car of steel plate for Denman and Davis on the end of the Slatersville branch
Photo Date:  4/14/1974  Upload Date: 2/2/2006 6:47:59 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Philip M. Paradis
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Locomotives:  PW 165(RS3)
Views:  1199   Comments: 0
PW 165
Title:  PW 165
Description:  the 165 ready to head out of the Worcester Yard to service DelMonte at the old US Steel Works in Worcester, while a couple unused cabooses look on.
Photo Date:  3/14/1975  Upload Date: 3/14/2006 12:46:12 PM
Location:  Worcester, MA
Author:  Philip M. Paradis
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Locomotives:  PW 165(RS3)
Views:  1153   Comments: 1
PW 165
Title:  PW 165
Description:  Switching DelMonte at the old US Steel Works in Worcester
Photo Date:  3/14/1975  Upload Date: 2/12/2006 11:06:46 AM
Location:  Worcester, MA
Author:  Philip M. Paradis
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Locomotives:  PW 165(RS3)
Views:  1225   Comments: 0
PW 165
Title:  PW 165
Description:  Remember when almost every city had one of these gas tanks in their skyline? The o'l Alco switching the Worcester yard
Photo Date:  3/14/1975  Upload Date: 2/12/2006 11:07:54 AM
Location:  Worcester, MA
Author:  Philip M. Paradis
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Locomotives:  PW 165(RS3)
Views:  970   Comments: 0
PW 1601
Title:  PW 1601
Description:  Part of Phil's collection. Slide from Jack's Trains, the 1601 showing off its new paint, when like so many cities, Worcester had these gas tanks
Photo Date:  9/19/1976  Upload Date: 4/19/2006 3:17:42 PM
Location:  Worcester, MA
Author:  Philip M. Paradis
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Locomotives:  PW 1601(RS3)
Views:  1608   Comments: 0
PW 1601
Title:  PW 1601
Description:  Built by Alco in 1951 for the Southern Railway and purchased by the Providence and Worcester in 1976. Painted with the Providence and Worcester red and brown, the 1601 was sold to the Lamoille Valley in 1982
Photo Date:  4/8/1977  Upload Date: 6/25/2005 5:45:02 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  RailAfan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 1601(RS3)
Views:  3639   Comments: 0
PW 1601
Title:  PW 1601
Description:  at the Worcester engine house, cold and unwanted
Photo Date:  1/5/1981  Upload Date: 3/12/2006 12:04:00 PM
Location:  Worcester, MA
Author:  Philip M. Paradis
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 1601(RS3)
Views:  981   Comments: 1
PW 1601
Title:  PW 1601
Description:  a little decal blush here!
Photo Date:  1/5/1981  Upload Date: 3/12/2006 12:04:52 PM
Location:  Worcester, MA
Author:  Philip M. Paradis
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 1601(RS3)
Views:  647   Comments: 0
PW 1602
Title:  PW 1602
Description:  The Providence and Worcester, Alco RS3 1602 with 20 cars of concrete ties for the Amtrak Northeast Corridor project. The problem? The 1602's on fire and the Valley Falls Volunteer Fire Department is hosing down the RS3... but its an ALCO!
Photo Date:  8/14/1979  Upload Date: 6/13/2005 5:39:54 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  RailAfan
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Locomotives:  PW 1602(RS3)
Views:  984   Comments: 0
PW 1602
Title:  PW 1602
Description:  Amazingly with the Valley Falls volunteer firemen watcwing, the 1602 started and finished the trip to Providence and back to Worcester. It was soon retired after this!
Photo Date:  8/14/1979  Upload Date: 6/13/2005 5:38:58 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  RailAfan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 1602(RS3)
Views:  966   Comments: 1
PW 1501
Title:  PW 1501
Description:  Providence and Worcester's RS2 1501 and RS3 1602 at the dead line with and un-letered caboose at the Worcester engine house
Photo Date:  9/13/1980  Upload Date: 2/5/2006 5:20:51 PM
Location:  Worcester, MA
Author:  Philip M. Paradis
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 1501(RS2) PW 1602(RS3)
Views:  1105   Comments: 0
PW 1602
Title:  PW 1602
Description:  Providence and Worcester's RS3 at the dead line at the Worcester engine house
Photo Date:  9/13/1980  Upload Date: 2/5/2006 5:22:27 PM
Location:  Worcester, MA
Author:  Philip M. Paradis
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 1602(RS3)
Views:  793   Comments: 0
PW 1602
Title:  PW 1602
Description:  Providence and Worcester's RS3 and a B&LE caboose at the dead line in Worcester - ex Southern locomotive. There's a string of Providence and Worcester TOF's in the background
Photo Date:  12/13/1980  Upload Date: 2/5/2006 5:17:43 PM
Location:  Worcester, MA
Author:  Philip M. Paradis
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 1602(RS3)
Views:  855   Comments: 0
PW 1602
Title:  PW 1602
Description:  Looks like it snowed last night! The o'l 1602 at the Worcester engine house with caboose 1958
Photo Date:  1/5/1981  Upload Date: 3/12/2006 2:29:02 PM
Location:  Worcester, MA
Author:  Philip M. Paradis
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 1602(RS3)
Views:  1289   Comments: 0
PW 4094
Title:  PW 4094
Description:  Seen at the Rock! The Fiberglass Plant in the Ashton section of Cumberland
Photo Date:  10/15/1973  Upload Date: 7/3/2005 12:41:04 PM
Location:  Cumberland, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 4094(RS3)
Views:  1486   Comments: 0
PW 4094
Title:  PW 4094
Description:  When the Providence and Worcester started, they leased 5 Alco RS3's from the Delaware and Hudson. All painted in the handsome white, brown and orange. They needed a 6th and the 4094 was sent. It never did get painted in the P&W colors
Photo Date:  5/14/1974  Upload Date: 7/1/2005 6:33:10 PM
Location:  Pawtucket, RI
Author:  RailAfan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PW 4094(RS3)
Views:  1651   Comments: 0


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