LOCOMOTIVE GALLERY PART 3

THE DIESEL AGE AT CHARLES STREET

New Haven 0930, an ALCO HH-660 built in 1940, sits on a Charles Street turntable track in 1956.

PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG

DL-109 0724 at Charles Street in the mid-1950's. PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG

View toward the turntable. Smoke stack is at the boiler house which supplied steam to Union Station.

Leo King Photo

A poor, blurred image taken during a fan trip visit to Charles Street but interesting because it shows "The Comet" being serviced next to an Alco DL 109 and an Alco switcher. The photo is c.1950 because "The Comet" was returned to Providence-Boston local service in 1949 and retired in 1951.

FM H-16-44 591 and ALCO S-1 0943 at the partly razed Charles Street roundhouse c. 1955.

PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG

ALCO DL-109 0738 at Charles Street c.1956. PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG

FM C Liner 795 is being turned on the Charles Street turntable in late summer 1958. Built in 1952, the diesel will not last much longer than J-1 2-8-2 3020 whose tender can be seen to the right. PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG

ALCO FA and FB units. The Charles Street bridge which crosed the mainline is above the building which once sheltered fire cleaners at the ash pits during the steam era.

The 95-foot inverted girder turntable at Charles Street with ALCO S-1 0935. PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG

ALCO DL-109's with the power house which fed steam to Union Station.

A sliding roundhouse door and the sand bin are in the background

PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG

ALCO PA-1 0768 at Charles Street. PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG

The turntable, machine shop, and sand bins are behind the ALCO PA. PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG

My transportation to Charles Street was originally a bicycle but the five mile trip was made easier when I could use the family Dodge which is on the right. Access to this point was from Oriental Street. Ashburton Street is in the distance.

PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG

The fueling area looking toward the turntable. The location is roughly where the ash pits were located.

PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG

GE 44 tonner built in 1945 at Charles Street May 20,1956

PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG

THE PARTIALLY RAZED CHARLES STREET ROUNDHOUSE

The buildings in the background still exist at the corner of Oriental and Admiral Streets. PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG

USA 2096, an ALCO MRS-1, is at Charles Street for flood relief service. It is late 1955 and most of the roundhouse has been razed. Roundhouse walls were often white to increase illumination, something particularly important at Charles Street because of the small windows and the road behind on a fill. PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG

The photo of a DL-109, RDC and FM road switcher was taken from the same location as the photo above.

Budd RDC's wait on the floor of the razed roundhouse looking toward Oriental Street.

PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG

ALCO DL-109 0722 was specially painted to haul "The Cranberry". It was photographed from Ashburton Street

with the four track mainline in the foreground. The building was the inspector's building which served the two inspection pits.

CHARLES STREET SAND FACILITY SEPTEMBER 1960

New Haven 1612 is a Fairbanks-Morse H-16-44 built in 1956

PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG

It is August 1971 and Charles Street is now a Penn Central facility. The E units are beside the sand bin near the white concrete sand drying building and bridge that carried sand piped under compressed air to the sand towers on the left.

PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG

In September 1970, ex-PRR E-8 5764, renumbered PC 4264, is at the Penn Central Charles Street sand bin. The tool checker's building is to the right. PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG

Ex New Haven 2521 is now PennCentral 2681, a GE U-25B. PennCentral 2451 had been New Haven 2551, an ALCO Century 425.

The New Haven caboose retains its original identity at Charles Street in September 1970.

PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG

A Penn Central quartet at the Charles Street turntable in August 1971. The black building is the power plant that fed steam to the Providence station through a suspended pipe. The boiler house was built in 1948 to replace the original boilers in the station building.

PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG

USA B-2044, an ALCO MRS-1, is at Charles Street to help the New Haven recover from the 1955 flooding.

PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG

A leased BAR GP7 is at the Charles Street roundhouse in August 1971. The New Haven also leased locomotives to the BAR.

PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG

Penn Central ALCO RSD-15 6811 still wears Pennsylvania Railroad keystones while at the Charles Street turntable in September 1970.

PHOTO BY EDWARD J. OZOG