LOCOMOTIVE GALLERY PART 2

A Selection of Photographs of Locomotives at the Charles Street Roundhouse

Survivor. J-1 3020 remained at Charles Street after the New Haven concluded steam operations in 1952. She was retained to provide steam to a snow clearing apparatus and was not scrapped until 1958 although only used once to melt snow.

PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG

J-1 Mikado 3015 was built by Schenectady in 1916. Photographed by Otto Perry while taking water in August 1937 on an outbound track with Ashburton Street in the background.

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J-1 3017, built by Schenectady in 1916, is apparently dead on one of the storage tracks at the old coach yard west of the coal tower.

PHIL H. BONNET PHOTO

J-1 2-8-2 on the mainline at the entrance to the engine yard. Photo is slightly distorted.

J-2 3107 at Charles Street in June 1938. The New Haven did not find its heavy 2-8-2's useful for mainline work and they were generally used as pushers and heavy switchers.

R-1 3307, built by Richmond in 1919, is at the south end of the coaling tower with Ashburton Street on the right.

R-1-a Class 4-8-2 3325 stands on a ready track off the turntable beside the fire hose hut. The box car on the right holds suppplies.

Three-cylindered R-3-a 3559 was photographed in 1930 from inside the Charles Street sand bin and a pile of the white sand is in the left corner of the image. Although it may seem the 4-8-2 is being coaled by a crane, the bucket belongs to the crane used to clean the ash pits along side 3559. The gondola on the right is an ash car.

The three-cylindered mountains were the most modern New Haven steam freight engines and since they were mainly used for through runs they were not usually seen at Charles Street. The L-1 2-10-2's and I-5 4-6-4's were also not commonly seen here.

H-1 1100 is one of the fast Atlantic types that substituted for "The Comet" when the streamlined speedster was not available for the Providence to Boston run. It was photographed in 1936 at the Charles Street turntable.

Another view of Atlantic 1100 on a holding track off the turntable. The 4-4-2 was built by Schenectady in 1907.

An I-4 Pacific is also on one of the five tracks off the turntable used for storage or holding engines between runs.

Otto Perry Photograph from the Collection of The Denver Public Library.

I-1 1005 is at Charles Street ready to back to the Providence Station for a Boston local.

I-2 1311 At The Entrance To The Charles Street Engine Terminal

PHIL H. BONNET PHOTO

I-2 1332 rests on one of the turntable tracks in June 1949. One of the three water cranes at Charles Street is behind the Pacific, the other two were located at the entrance to the engine terminal. A box car for supplies is ahead.

I-2 1314 is on the Charles Street ash pit. The New Haven hopper car is on the coal delivery track; the ash track is behind it. To the rear of the Pacific is the tool checker's building and one of the sand towers.

I-4 1366 on an inbound service track as seen from the Ashburton Street side of the terminal. The coal tower is on the right.

I-4 1386 at the Charles Street roundhouse in April 1939. The supply car stands behind a roped-off drop-pit which extended from the end of the roundhouse. Drop pits were also located at the end of the original roundhouse next to the machine shop.

I-4 1355 next to the drop pit track on the left. The new section of the roundhouse is on the right.

I-4 4-6-2 1353 at the Charles Street turntable.

I-4 Pacific hauling a local for Boston as seen from the entrance to the engine yard. Chalkstone Ave. bridge is on the right. Ashburton St. is behind the fence.

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Y-3 3401 on the Charles Street ash pit in April 1930 still has a tender which has not been cut down for clearer vision to the rear.

Y-3 3415 is at the south side of the coaling tower.

Y-4 3603 is on one of the two ready tracks by the coaling tower. H.L.Goldsmith Photo

Y-4 3605 on the west coaling track.

Y-4-a 3614 is facing toward Union Station at the junction of the engine terminal tracks and the mainline. Note the small switch-indicator signal, the Charles Street bridge and the fence along Ashburton Street. Orms Street tower originally controlled the area east of Union Station.

H.L.Goldsmith Photo

Y-4-a 3611 is heading toward the Northup Avenue Yard on the main tracks adjoining the engine yard lead. The photograph was taken from about the same spot as the photograph above and shows the buildings along Ashburton Street.

Y-4 3606 is on a company supply siding adjoining the Charles Street engine terminal in May 1948. The suspended pipe behind the three-cylindered 0-8-0 carried steam from the boiler house near the roundhouse to the Providence station building. The pipeline and boiler house were built in 1948 to replace the original boilers in the station basement. Donald T. Hayward, Sr Photo

Y-4-a 3611 is on one of the holding tracks radiating off the turntable.

THE END OF STEAM AT CHARLES STREET

Regular steam operation on the New Haven ended by early 1952 but three J-1 2-8-2's lasted until 1958 because they were retained to provide steam for a snow clearing-snow melting apparatus. The apparatus was not found useful for snow removal work and all were scrapped. J-1 3020 was at Charles Street while 3006 and 3016 were at Boston and New Haven, respectively.

One of my first photographs; taken in 1954 when the 27-stall roundhouse was still intact. J-1 3020 had until this time been stored in the roundhouse where photography was difficult. The pipe with the star-shaped shut-off valve fed steam to the Barber-Greene snow removal and melting equipment for which 3020 was retained. Regular steam operation had ended at Charles Street over two years before this photo.

PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG

LAST CALL FOR DUTY

The March 20, 1956 snowfall was deep enough for 3020 to be fired-up for snow melting duty. The J-1 Mikado and the snow removal equipment were propelled by the leased U.S. Army diesel; 3020 only provided the steam for melting the snow that was moved by a conveyor to a holding tank. After this photograph was taken at Charles Street, 3020 was moved to a track off the turntable where she spent the next two years deteriorating.

March 20, 1956. Last day of service. J-1 3020 on the Seekonk River Bridge dumping melted snow.

J-1 3020 in badly detriorated condition with rods removed for a trip to a Pennsylvania scrap yard in September 1958.

EDWARD J. OZOG PHOTO

J-1 3006 was delayed for a number of days at Charles Street while traveling from Boston to Pennsylvania for scrapping in 1958.

A bearing ran hot while being towed in a freight south of Providence necessitating a move to Charles Street for a repair.

For the last time Charles Street held two steam engines. The locomotive is badly deteriorated with many parts removed.

The C before 3006 means condemned.

EDWARD J. OZOG PHOTO

FAREWELL TO J-1 3006 - CHARLES STREET TURNTABLE SEPTEMBER 1958

PROVIDENCE JOURNAL PHOTO

THE CHARLES STREET STAFF SAID GOODBYE TO 3006 AND 3020 IN SEPTEMBER 1958

PROVIDENCE JOURNAL PHOTO

Nelson Blount's ex-Canadian Pacific G-5 1278 was probably the last steam locomotive to be serviced at Charles Street. Steamtown Pacific 127 was there in April 1967 for a fantrip. To the left is the diesel sand tower, pipe bridge and the green tool checker's building.

PHOTO BY THE AUTHUR'S FATHER EDWARD A. OZOG