Shoreline Passenger Train is about to go underground into the new Union Station. The relocation of Amtrak played a big role in the rebuilding of Providence.

RS 3 used for work trains is bracketed by old wooden Fruit Grower's Express reefer and new P&W Box car.

Yard duty engine pauses beside an unusual Frisco freight car.

One of each is available today on the roundhouse tracks at the turntable. An E8, SW1, RDC, RS1 and SW 1500.

E units for commuter service spending the night out in the open with the last glimmers of daylight anointing them.

GP 30s showed up in Providence 1971 and held up the short distance through freight service untill Conrail arrived.

Up untill 1984 when a highway interchange came through this area this was the best spot for passenger train shots in Providence.

One of the three Hew Haven H15-44s that worked the Providence area up untill the merger with Penn Central.

When the Penn Central moved their engine service tracks up the line a half mile or so they ended up with much debris strewn around until a new engine house was built. These GP30s took the move in ... (more)

Penn Central used a pair of RSD 15's for switching the Providence Freight Terminal up to the formation of Conrail. These units remained clean and new looking for a long period and had enough guts ... (more)

The Gulf tank cars fill a sixty thousand gallon tank. Enough diesel fuel to feed 15 E8 units. In 2008 prices that would be around $200,000.00 worth of Diesel.

By 1972 the roundhouse was gone and soon the truntable would go. These RS3's, SW and E unit would find a new home in the middle of the classification yard near the old hump at a new facility.

Capitol building in background catches the last rays of an early winter sun while Amtrak's Merchant's Limited arrives at Providence enroute to New York city.

P&W PR 2 train runs along side Terminal street to while heading for the Port of Providence with empty coal cars.