The Providence and Worcester Railroad is a Class II railroad operating 612 miles of tracks in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, as well as New York via trackage rights. The company was fou
Providence and Worcester GE B40-8W leads a passenger excursion for railfans at Plainfield, Connecticut in 2012
Share of the Providence and Worcester Railroad Company, issued on August 12, 1909
A photo of the 1853 collision in Valley Falls, Rhode Island
The P&W roundhouse in Providence, circa 1870
The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, commonly known as The Consolidated, or simply as the New Haven, was a railroad that operated principally in the New England region of the United States f
Providence and Worcester Railroad
…Rhode Island. The P&W operated independently until 1888, when the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad (NYP&B) leased it; four years later, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad obtained the lease when it purchased the NYP&B. The P&W continued to exist as a company, as special rules protecting minority shareholders made it…
A New Haven Railroad train in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1962
Train over the Norwalk River (1914 postcard)
The railroad's original script style logo
By 1900, the New Haven's trains could be found almost everywhere in Southern New England