LOCOMOTIVE GALLERY  PART 1

LOCOMOTIVES PHOTOGRAPHED  AT CHARLES STREET

Major roundhouses had shop switchers which were usually tank engines with a short wheel base to allow them to fit on a turntable with a dead engine or a tender.  U-3 0-6-0T 2540 was an ex-tender engine which was phographed at Charles Street in the late1930's.  The New Haven Shops built it in 1896 numbered 40.     Richard J. Costello Photo

 SHOP SWITCHER AT CHARLES STREET c. 1932

U-3 2540 was built with a tender by New Haven Shops in 1896. 

491 is a compound cylindered 0-6-0 shown on the Charles Street turntable soon after delivery from the Rhode Island Locomotive works in 1902.  It was classified as T-1 2306 in 1904 and later rebuilt with simple cylinders and reclassified as T-2-a.  Compound locomotives were built to save coal and water by reusing steam but compound 0-6-0's are not common since switching service did not generally permit the economy that would warrent the expense of maintaining a compound engine. 

  2398 is a T-2-b 0-6-0 built by the Rhode Island Locomotive Works in 1905.  It is probably stored serviceable since it is on the sidings by the Charles Street sand bin away from the servicing area.       Phil H. Bonnet Photo

T-2-b 2399 sits in the same location as 2398 in the photo above.   Actually, the photo is a modified photo of 2398 taken about the same time as the photo above.   The number was changed (the actual 2399 had been scrapped about 14 years earlier), smoke and steam added, and generally improved.

 T-2-a 2319 is stored in the area once occupied by the coach yard.  The 0-6-0 switcher is probably near scrapping

and has one air compressor removed.

T-1 2312, built by Schenectady in 1900, was photographed by Otto Perry in August 1937 between the water tank and the coaling tower out of the picture on the right.

Denver Public Library Collection

T-2-b 2398 was built by the Rhode Island Locomotive Works in 1905.

It is stored serviceable in the old coach yard area with its stack covered to keep out rain water.

1528 is a C-3-c 4-4-0 built by the Rhode Island Locomotive Works in 1903 and retired soon after being photographed at the ready tracks off the Charles Street turntable in May 1934.  She probably was used on work trains or on one of the many branch lines in the Providence area.  Aside her is a water tank from a shop switcher which may be undergoing boiler repairs.

Another view of C-3-c 4-4-0 1528.  The photographer was standing in the scrap bin

 532 is a K-2 2-6-0 built by the Rhode Island Locomotive Works in 1894 as 272.  She is at the entrance of the Charles Street engine terminal and the full load of coal suggests she is going to work.  It is November 1939 and the Mogul is probably the oldest engine at Charles Street.

This image of K-2 532 at Charles Street shows her apparently fresh painted in July 1938 but without a number on the smokebox number plate.       LEWIS WALTER PHOTO

K-1-b 268 was photographed from the Ashburton Street side of the ash pit and coal delivery track in May 1947.

DONALD T. HAYWARD, SR. PHOTO

K-1-b 291 on the west coaling track.  Two other photos of 291 follow, both taken at a later date

when the Mogul had a walk-board built over the air pump

 K-1-b 291 is probably stored serviceable on the sidings next to the Charles Street sand bin which was usually overflowing.  It is the late 1940's and the 2-6-0 will probably not see service again.

The color image of K-1-b 291 in faded paint was made at the same time as the photo above.

K-1-d 414 and a shop switcher are on one of the tracks radiating off the Charles Street turntable.  The 2-6-0 has freshly painted cylinders, a blue flag on the pilot beam and a man working on the pilot deck    L.P.Cornwall Photo

K-1-d 2-6-0 381 sits behind the roped-off drop pit that extended into the roundhouse.

K-1-d 363, built by the Rhode Island Locomotive Works in 1904, is coaled at Charles Street.

G-3 966 was built by the Rhode Island Locomotive Works in 1903 for freight service.  However, the 4-6-0 is equipped with steam and signal hoses for passenger work.  She is on the outbound track along Ashburton Street at the Charles Street engine terminal.

 G-3 960 was built by the Rhode Island Locomotive Works in 1903 with low drivers for light freight service.  The 4-6-0 is at the Charles Street roundhouse in May 1934 equipped with footboards and steam, signal and air hoses for dual freight and passenger service on branch lines.

This view of G-3 960 may have made at the same time as the photo above.

G-3 4-6-0 960 was built by the Rhode Island Locomotive Works in 1903. 

Photographed on a holding track off the turntable.

Notice the length of the water crane spout which served two of the ready tracks for locomotives exiting the turntable for duty.   

C.A. BROWN PHOTO 

 F-5 158, built by Brooks in 1912,  awaits assignment on the siding next to the water tank at Charles Street.  There were often a few engines on this siding during quiet periods.  Water was supplied to the locomotives from two water cranes near the entrance to the terminal and one near the turntable.

A  fan trip stop at Charles St. allows railfans to photograph F-5 150 stored serviceable in the dead line.  View is from the old coach yard.  The roundhouse is to the left out of the photo.