Eastern Railroad Discussion > Newport and Providence railfanning

Up in Rhode Island for business. Any cool sites for railroads in these 2 towns?

One thing noteworthy to Newports railroad histrory is the downtown ballpark called Cardines Field was once called Basin Field as it was flooded out for drainage and water supply for NYNH&HRR steam engines and once it was drained it became a field for railroad workers to play  baseball.  During WWII Yogi, Phil Rizzuto and Bob Feller amongst others played games there while stationed nearby at the Naval Base.  It is a really cool looking ballpark.

Jcruiser-12_ Wrote:
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> Up in Rhode Island for business. Any cool sites
> for railroads in these 2 towns?

The Newport and Narragansett Bay RR operates a piece of the Newport Secondary with excursion trains and dinner trains ("Grand Bellevue Rail Dining Experience"). The N&NB is isolated to Aquidneck Island and the station is on America's Cup Avenue in Newport.

The busy Amtrak/MBTA NE corridor runs through downtown Providence. The only freight activity there is the nocturnal Sunday - Thursday P&W RR Worcester - Davisville turn job that takes autos, lumber, LPG, plastics, and other commodities to the Seaview RR and brings out C&D.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/15/24 02:44 by JPB.

JPB Wrote:
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> Jcruiser-12_ Wrote:
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> The busy Amtrak/MBTA NE corridor runs through
> downtown Providence. The only freight activity
> there is the nocturnal Sunday - Thursday P&W RR
> that takes autos and LPG to the Seaview RR and
> brings out C&D.

A daytime local often also runs through the Providence station to work the Port of Providence, and sometimes unit ethanol trains go to/from Motiva, the port's ethanol terminal, as well.
 

toledopatch Wrote:
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> JPB Wrote:
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> > Jcruiser-12_ Wrote:
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> > The busy Amtrak/MBTA NE corridor runs through
> > downtown Providence. The only freight activity
> > there is the nocturnal Sunday - Thursday P&W RR
> > that takes autos and LPG to the Seaview RR and
> > brings out C&D.
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> A daytime local often also runs through the
> Providence station to work the Port of Providence,
> and sometimes unit ethanol trains go to/from
> Motiva, the port's ethanol terminal, as well.


Good point! Thanks for adding that info!
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Check out "South Coast Rail Videos" to have an idea of what's happening in Rhode Island and southeastern Mass. , you'll have some different topics to check out in the area.

Awesome! Thanks for all of the info. My hotel is directly across from the ballpark mentioned early on in the thread.

Jon

If you have a car available you are close to Plainfield CT, where P&W has a yard and runs a couple of locals out to Worcester and Wliilmantic.