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Viewing Album:  Providence and Worcester's Slatersville Branch
 
By:Ron Chouinard
Dates:3/23/2013 - 3/23/2013
Album Info:The Slate as its called today. Originally planned as a route from Boston to New York, the line was graded to the Connecticut border and was known then as the Boston and New York. The line was completed from Brookline, Massachusetts to Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Eventually the line was built to Pascoag and renamed the Woonsocket and Pascoag and was acquired by the New Haven Railroad thru the complicated mergers around 1895. In September of 1937 the track was abandoned from Pascoag to its present terminus at Route 5 in North Smithfield, Rhode Island. Later the Slate became a Penn Central branch with those mergers. The Slate became an isolated branch of the Penn Central when the Providence and Worcester regained their independence in 1973. Now part of the Providence and Worcester Railroad, this album contains current photos and information on the Slate that runs from end of track at Winter Street (now Prospect Street) in Woonsocket, to end of track at Route 5 in North Smithfield. 1 January 2013, confirmed O'Neil Steel closed and property for sale. O'Neil last active customer. The branch itself owned by the Town of North Smithfield. Future uncertain. On 14 March 2013, PW place the Slatersville Branch out of services. Switch at Woonsocket spiked and clamped with all crossing deactivated.
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Slatersville Branch Winter Street yard
Title:  Slatersville Branch Winter Street yard
Description:  Providence and Worcester's long unused Winter Street yard, looking towards Bellingham
Photo Date:  3/18/2006  Upload Date: 5/16/2006 3:39:05 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Slatersville Branch Winter Street yard
Title:  Slatersville Branch Winter Street yard
Description:  Providence and Worcester's long unused Winter Street yard. Sad, everything handled by trucks here!
Photo Date:  3/18/2006  Upload Date: 5/16/2006 3:40:01 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Views:  401   Comments: 0
Winter Street yard, September 2005
Title:  Winter Street yard, September 2005
Description:  In the brush and weeds is a small yard that unloaded hopper cars and an occasional load of coal consigned to Home Coal on Privilige Street
Photo Date:  9/1/2005  Upload Date: 9/19/2005 12:43:41 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Winter Street yard, March 7, 2006
Title:  Winter Street yard, March 7, 2006
Description:  Winter Street yard - looking east towards Bellingham, Massachusetts
Photo Date:  3/7/2006  Upload Date: 3/9/2006 9:58:39 AM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Winter Street yard, March 7, 2006
Title:  Winter Street yard, March 7, 2006
Description:  Looking west towards Winter Street and North Smithfield. Switch stand has been removed and brush recently cleared
Photo Date:  3/7/2006  Upload Date: 3/9/2006 9:59:32 AM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Views:  628   Comments: 0
Winter Street Yards
Title:  Winter Street Yards
Description:  Again looking east towards the yard - for sale sign clearly showing
Photo Date:  3/7/2006  Upload Date: 3/9/2006 10:00:48 AM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Views:  631   Comments: 0
Winter Street Yard
Title:  Winter Street Yard
Description:  Now sold, what is left of Providence and Worcester's Winter Street yard
Photo Date:  9/29/2008  Upload Date: 8/30/2008 2:11:45 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Views:  452   Comments: 0
North Main Street
Title:  North Main Street
Description:  In this November 2005 photo, not much has changed outside of the missing fence
Photo Date:  11/5/2005  Upload Date: 11/7/2005 2:06:47 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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North Main Street
Title:  North Main Street
Description:  March 7th photo, Prospect Street now showing the 1st of a half dozen for sale signs that's appeared during the month of March on the unused section of the Slate
Photo Date:  3/7/2006  Upload Date: 3/9/2006 10:01:50 AM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Views:  468   Comments: 0
East School Street
Title:  East School Street
Description:  Providence and Worcester Railroad - looking west towards North Main Street
Photo Date:  9/29/2008  Upload Date: 8/31/2008 9:45:13 AM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Views:  381   Comments: 0
East School Street
Title:  East School Street
Description:  Providence and Worcester Railroad - looking east towards Winter Street yard
Photo Date:  9/29/2008  Upload Date: 8/31/2008 9:46:28 AM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Views:  335   Comments: 0
Present End of track at Prospect Street
Title:  Present End of track at Prospect Street
Description:  In this 2005 photo, Prospect Street is the present end of active track - looking towards the Blackstone Street bridge
Photo Date:  9/5/2005  Upload Date: 11/7/2005 2:04:32 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Views:  664   Comments: 0
Blackstone Street bridge
Title:  Blackstone Street bridge
Description:  In this November 2005 photo from the Blackstone Street bridge, the wall track from Woonsocket yards is coming up from the right. The main towards Harris Avenue, with a long forgotten siding on the left that could very well be the location of an old depot
Photo Date:  9/5/2005  Upload Date: 11/7/2005 2:09:24 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Views:  623   Comments: 2
PW 2011
Title:  PW 2011
Description:  Train PR2 on a rare visit, and for the 2nd time this year to the Slatersville Branch. Seen coming down the wall track from the branch with the empty bulkhead flat they brought up the day before
Photo Date:  1/25/2006  Upload Date: 1/25/2006 4:04:38 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 2011(GP38)
Views:  614   Comments: 0
PW 2010
Title:  PW 2010
Description:  Slipping down the wall track, back into Woonsocket Yard at River Street
Photo Date:  2/8/2006  Upload Date: 2/8/2006 6:07:55 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 2006(GP38-2) PW 2010(GP38)
Views:  726   Comments: 1
Harris Avenue
Title:  Harris Avenue
Description:  Looking towards the Blackstone Street bridge, and beyond to Prospect Street. The abandoned siding would come in on the right
Photo Date:  9/18/2005  Upload Date: 9/19/2005 12:41:47 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Views:  511   Comments: 1
PW 2010 - Train PR2
Title:  PW 2010 - Train PR2
Description:  PR2 done servicing Denman and Davis - slipping by Ardente Plumbing at Harris Avenue
Photo Date:  2/8/2006  Upload Date: 2/8/2006 7:08:08 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 2010(GP38)
Views:  462   Comments: 0
Harris Avenue
Title:  Harris Avenue
Description:  With these signs, it looks like the 50's here! looking across the "Thin Bridge" over the Providence and Worcester main. The next crossing is River Street and the Bandwagon bridge
Photo Date:  9/18/2005  Upload Date: 9/19/2005 12:40:04 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Views:  617   Comments: 1
Harris Avenue
Title:  Harris Avenue
Description:  Train PR2 coming back light engines at Harris Avenue, after a trip to Denman and Davis with a bulkhead flat of steel plate
Photo Date:  2/28/2006  Upload Date: 3/2/2006 4:53:28 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 3908(B39-8E)
Views:  646   Comments: 0
Bandwagon Bridge
Title:  Bandwagon Bridge
Description:  The Bandwagon bridge in 2005 crossing the Blackstone River towards North Smithfield
Photo Date:  9/18/2005  Upload Date: 10/3/2005 8:20:52 AM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Views:  445   Comments: 0
PW 2010 on the Bandwagon Bridge
Title:  PW 2010 on the Bandwagon Bridge
Description:  On the way to service Denman and Davis, Providence and Worcester's train PR2, on the Slatersville Branch, slipping over the Blackstone River on the Bandwagon Bridge
Photo Date:  2/8/2006  Upload Date: 2/8/2006 5:57:37 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 2010(GP38)
Views:  530   Comments: 2
PW 2006 on the Bandwagon Bridge
Title:  PW 2006 on the Bandwagon Bridge
Description:  On the way to service Denman and Davis, Providence and Worcester's train PR2, on the Slatersville Branch, slipping over the Blackstone River on the Bandwagon Bridge
Photo Date:  2/8/2006  Upload Date: 2/9/2006 1:24:35 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 2006(GP38-2)
Views:  527   Comments: 0
Asylum Street Today
Title:  Asylum Street Today
Description:  Asylum Street on the Slatersville Branch in Woonsocket, as it appears in August, 2006
Photo Date:  8/17/2006  Upload Date: 8/17/2006 6:23:32 PM
Location:  Woonsocket, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Views:  420   Comments: 0
Slatersville Bridge
Title:  Slatersville Bridge
Description:  The Slatersville branch crosses Rhode Island Route 146 on this imposing plate girder bridge - about another 2 miles to the end
Photo Date:  11/19/2006  Upload Date: 9/8/2007 2:48:00 PM
Location:  North Smithfield, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Views:  301   Comments: 0
Homestead, formerly Orgonics
Title:  Homestead, formerly Orgonics
Description:  Well, the car puller is still here, and a new housing was added at some time, but the building has been demolished
Photo Date:  12/3/2005  Upload Date: 12/3/2005 4:04:39 PM
Location:  North Smithfield, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Views:  624   Comments: 0
Old Orgonics (Homestead) car puller
Title:  Old Orgonics (Homestead) car puller
Description:  Need a car puller? At the old Orgonics/Homestead fertilizer plant on the Providence and Worcester's Slatersville Branch
Photo Date:  3/1/2006  Upload Date: 3/2/2006 10:16:47 AM
Location:  North Smithfield, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Views:  352   Comments: 0
Train PR2
Title:  Train PR2
Description:  4002 running light past the old Homestead/Orginics Fertilizer grounds. Empty bulkhead flat at Denman and Davis being picked-up today
Photo Date:  2/28/2006  Upload Date: 3/2/2006 4:55:15 PM
Location:  North Smithfield, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 4002(B40-8)
Views:  612   Comments: 0
Run-A-Round on the Slatersville Branch
Title:  Run-A-Round on the Slatersville Branch
Description:  The Slatersville run-a-round, up by Denman and Davis (old Edgecomb Steel) at the end of the Slatersville Branch at Route 5
Photo Date:  11/22/2006  Upload Date: 11/22/2006 1:55:46 PM
Location:  North Smithfield, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Views:  432   Comments: 0
Slatersville Branch
Title:  Slatersville Branch
Description:  PR-2's coming up the grade to Steel Street and Denman and Davis with that bulkhead flat of steel
Photo Date:  3/27/2009  Upload Date: 3/27/2009 6:09:27 PM
Location:  North Smithfield, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 2007(GP38-2)
Views:  376   Comments: 0
Denman and Davis
Title:  Denman and Davis
Description:  Presently the only active customer, Denman and Davis Steel - the former Edgecomb Steel at the end of the Slatersville Branch
Photo Date:  10/1/2005  Upload Date: 10/3/2005 9:39:44 AM
Location:  North Smithfield, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Views:  523   Comments: 0
TTPX 82118 Bulkhead Flat
Title:  TTPX 82118 Bulkhead Flat
Description:  Empty bulkhead flat at Denman and Davis Steel, waiting for pick-up by Providence and Worcester's train PR2. PR2 brought the loaded flat up the day before
Photo Date:  1/25/2006  Upload Date: 1/25/2006 4:17:13 PM
Location:  North Smithfield, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Views:  399   Comments: 0
Train PR2
Title:  Train PR2
Description:  Providence and Worcester's 2009 with a company gondola pulling the empty bulkhead flat from Denman and Davis while the 2011 looks on
Photo Date:  1/25/2006  Upload Date: 1/25/2006 4:18:38 PM
Location:  North Smithfield, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 2011(GP38)
Views:  683   Comments: 0
Denman and Davis/O'Neil Steel
Title:  Denman and Davis/O'Neil Steel
Description:  On the Slatersville Branch, PR-2's slipping that bulkhead flat of steel plate for unloading into the Denman and Davis bay - the old Edgecomb Steel. They'll wait for round 30 or so minutes while the car is unloaded
Photo Date:  3/27/2009  Upload Date: 3/27/2009 5:57:34 PM
Location:  North Smithfield, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 3908(B39-8E)
Views:  721   Comments: 0
End of the line
Title:  End of the line
Description:  Concrete unloading dock at the end of the Slatersville Branch. The track crossed Route 5 on the way to Pascoag
Photo Date:  10/1/2005  Upload Date: 10/3/2005 9:42:01 AM
Location:  North Smithfield, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Views:  497   Comments: 0
End of the line
Title:  End of the line
Description:  Yellow de-rail guarding the main line
Photo Date:  10/1/2005  Upload Date: 10/6/2005 12:05:46 PM
Location:  North Smithfield, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Views:  536   Comments: 0
End of the line
Title:  End of the line
Description:  Small yard with its 3 tracks. Will these ever be used again?
Photo Date:  10/1/2005  Upload Date: 10/6/2005 12:08:09 PM
Location:  North Smithfield, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Rare MBTA Maxon Side Dumps on the Slatersville Branch
Title:  Rare MBTA Maxon Side Dumps on the Slatersville Branch
Description:  Coming round the bend on the Slatersville Branch - PR2's servicing Denman and Davis with the bulkhead flat of steel plate with 3 MBTA Maxon side dumps going for the ride
Photo Date:  4/15/2008  Upload Date: 4/15/2008 2:58:15 PM
Location:  North Smithfield, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Locomotives:  PW 2011(GP38)
Views:  678   Comments: 0
Rare MBTA Maxon Side Dumps on the Slatersville Branch
Title:  Rare MBTA Maxon Side Dumps on the Slatersville Branch
Description:  Slipping the bulkhead flat of steel plate into the un-loading bay at Denman and Davis with MBTA Maxon side dump going for the ride
Photo Date:  4/15/2008  Upload Date: 4/15/2008 3:01:20 PM
Location:  North Smithfield, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Views:  554   Comments: 0
$$$ Our Tax Dollars at Work $$$
Title:  $$$ Our Tax Dollars at Work $$$
Description:  Yup, all this for maybe 1 train a month on the Slatersville Branch! Includes all new crossing gates, new track, ties and switches. Steel Street at Denman and Davis, the end of the Branch and also a dead end street. The air company visible and a small business on the left after the crossing
Photo Date:  3/27/2009  Upload Date: 3/28/2009 9:38:09 AM
Location:  North Smithfield, RI
Author:  Ron Chouinard
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Views:  537   Comments: 0

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