WARWICK
WARWICK RAILWAY IN CRANSTON
After service ended on the line to Buttonwoods in October 1935, the United Electric Ry. reduced the size of the line to about a mile of track at the Auburn (Cranston) interchange with the New Haven. It ended about where the Silver Hook station stood. The UER provided freight service on the stub with an electric locomotive until 1949 when the UER ended trolley operations. The stub was sold to a private operator who continued electric operation for a brief period and then switched to diesel locomotives. There were a few sizable customers on the stub so the railroad continued to operate under the Warwick Railway name and was eventually purchased by the modern-day Providence & Worcester. The tiny railroad owned several "locomotives"; eight are pictured below.
Number 100 was an electric locomotive from the University of Michigan which was converted to gasoline-electric power and later sold to the Strasburg Railroad.
Number 101 had been UER 1295 built by the Rhode Island Co. (UER) in 1904.
It was one of three freight locomotives built in the company shops in 1904,05 and 11.
Number 102 was a trolley crane purchased from the Connecticut Co. and
intended for use as a freight locomotive. August 17, 1952.
Number 103 was a Russell sweeper from the UER intended for
use as a freight locomotive. August 17, 1952.
Number 104 is 50-ton Atlas built in 1940.
Number 4400 (No. 105) is a 425-horsepower 65-ton Vulcan built in Wilkes Barre in 1943
purchased from the Hingham Ammunition Depot in Massachusetts.
Second Number 101 was said to be a General Electric 35-ton locomotive built in 1923 as a
gasoline-electric. It is next to the substation on August 17, 1952.
Bellefont Station
The locomotive is a United Electric Freight Motor. The photo may have been taken when UER was still providing service or soon after the Warwick assumed service in 1949 with a UER freight motor.
Pawtuxet River Bridge with Bellefont Station in the background.
Photo taken at the same time as the previous photo. Box on motor may be an LCL shipment.
Second No. 101 at the Auburn Interchange with the New Haven RR. in Cranston.
Loris J. Bass Photo
SECOND 101 - GEIGHY CHEMICAL CO. IN THE BACKGROUND
Photo by George E. Votava
Two similar light GE Steeplecab electrics were purchased around the time trolley wire operation ended and both were converted by the Warwick Ry. to gas-electric locomotives. One was an ex-Grafton & Upton 30-ton locomotive which was aquired from a quarry in East Milford, Mass. and later scrapped by the Warwick Ry. The other was from the University of Michigan and was later sold to the Strasburg RR (pre-tourist days) which later scrapped it. Strasburg Number 7 in the photo was built with sloping hoods which matched the slope of the handrails but new high hoods were added by the Warwick Ry. when converted to gas. The Warwick Ry. reportedly assigned the number 100 to the University of Michigan electric but the number used for the Grafton & Upton electric is not known, but a guess would say that Second 102 would fit since there was a Second 101 and a Second 103.
PLYMOUTH LOCOMOTIVE SECOND 103
The locomotive was built as Boston & Maine 101 in 1938. In 1941 it was sold to Draper Corp. for use on the Beebe River but the New Hampshire logging railroad was abandoned and the engine was sold to the Narragansett Pier RR in 1942 as number 33. In 1959 it was sold to the Warwick Ry. but soon resold to Kerr Glass Co. of Millvale, New Jersey as number 4. It was probably scrapped in 1968. The first photo above shows the engine being shipped from the B&M, while the second shows the engine in Cranston after being shipped from the NPR.
LAKEWOOD had been SILVER HOOK. The original LAKEWOOD station was a half mile south and was initially named PAWTUXET.
The plans were drawn by David L. Waddington from railroad blueprints for the MODEL RAILROADER. They appeared on page 61 of the June 1957 issue. There was a window in the center of the rear wall. The two side walls were the same.
CRANSTON CARBARN - AUGUST 27, 1951
EX-DL&W CRANSTON MARCH 25, 1950
Number 104, the 50-ton Atlas.
THE 65-TON 425 HP VULCAN BUILT IN 1943
Ex-4400 lacks a number but could be considered 105. April 1980.
PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG
THE VULCAN AND DERELICT GE LOCOMOTIVES - APRIL 1980
PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG
When the Warwick and Moshassuck Valley were purchased by the Providence & Worcester
MVRR 9 was repainted as Warwick 106. Northup Avenue Yard, Providence, September 1984.
PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG