Providence and Worcester (PW) 3003 - Rebuilt EMD GP40-3

Resting at the tower.

Worcester area switcher WX-3 works a cut of container cars with PW 3003 and PW 2213 for power. Old print scan.

Worcester area switcher WX-3 works a cut of container cars with PW 3003 and PW 2213 for power. Old print scan.

With the trailing unit hooked up they will pick up cars fron the PAR and head back to Worcester Ma.

Labor Day run to Gardner Ma. with empty racks sitting under the Route 2 bridge.

Heading to Davisville with the 3003 in tow. The 3003 will be swapped for the 2001, being used by the Seaview Railroad

The P&W picks up the first ever Ethanol Train from the CSX at Worcester Yard.

P&W 3003 is parked behind the Worcester engine house with P&W 3004 and LLPX 3105

P&W 3004 parked behind the Worcester engine house.

RPRX 5400 sits in the Providence & Worcester Railroad's Worcester Yard amongst the PW 3001-3003. Photograph shot through window of the PW New Englander Observation car as we departed Worcester for the Roger Williams Zoo Excursion. In the far backround is the College of the Holy Cross.

PW Engine 3003 Parked Behind The Enginehouse As Seen From Southbridge Street In Worcester, MA

3003 In The Greenwood Yard In Worcester, MA

3003 In The Greenwood Yard In Worcester, MA

3003 In The Greenwood Yard In Worcester, MA

3003 In The Greenwood Yard In Worcester, MA

3003 Going Through The Manville Section Of Lincoln, RI

3003 On The Empty Coal Extra Going Through The Manville Section Of Lincoln, RI

Taken at the Providence & Worcester Tripod Tour

On a very rainy day the P&W 3003 heads south to the Greenwood Yard with intermodal units.

Evening WX-3 finished working Greenwood Yard and headed back up north for some work in the Worcester Yard. P&W 3003 over Cambridge Street.

3003 heads south towards Millbury with a single car in tow

PW 2010 pushes a southbound move while 3003 waits to follow with a single car

Appeared in the April 2008 issue of Railpace

First Unit Ethanol Train in the P&W.

PW 2216 one of the two B23-7Rs on the PW is the second unit on the Empty Coal Train

The Empty Mt. Tom Coal Train leaves Gardner heading for Worcester

The Empty Mt. Tom Coal Train leaves Gardner heading for Worcester

The Empty Mt. Tom Coal Train sits in Gardner waiting for a P&W recrew which came about 3 minutes after I took this photo

PW Bow Coal Xtra @ upper South Main St.

Worcester Extra w/ PW #3202,3003 crossing South Main street in Gardner,Ma enroute to Gardner yard to pick up empty Mt. Tom Coal train with PW #3907,3902

Worcester Extra w/ PW #3002,3003 crossing South Main street enroute to Gardner yard to pick up empty Mt. Tom Coal train with PW #3907,3902

Engineer Tom Mik poses for a photo on the Worcester Xtra

Worc. Xtra switches out the CSX interchange

GP40 action in the Valley Falls yard - on a nice and bright Sunday morning, Worcester Extra running under the historic Church Street bridge with 26 empty coal hoppers

GP40 action in the Valley Falls yard - Worcester Extra running light engines back to Worcester after coming down with 26 empty coal hoppers

Looking as though is has just been freshly power-washed, PW 3003 sits quietly at the Worcester Enginehouse.

The muggys are coming back on a sultry Friday afternoon - at the engine house a couple recently washed locos at the fuel rack - the 4002 inside getting some attention along with some of the PW passenger cars

2 GP40's used for today's Passenger Extra power, on the south end of the Worcester wye which connects with the Providence and Norwich mains

Power for the employee's recognition train, heading down the main for the passenger equipment by the home office on the Norwich main

in heavy rain, conductor throwing the turnout at the Valley Yard --- Providence and Worcester's train WX-3 from Worcester with a special 5 tank car move for Dow Chemical in Gales Ferry, Connecticut. Plan is to run down the Amtrak Northest corridor to Connecticut with power from PR2 - the 2008 amd 2006

3001 heading towards the bridges that span Jackson Street while the Worcester Police looks on