WOOD RIVER

KENYONS - SHANNOCK - CAROLINA

WOOD RIVER JUNCTION AND THE WOOD RIVER BRANCH RAILROAD

KENYONS - 26.3 MILES FROM PROVIDENCE

SHANNOCK WHEN NEW IN 1903 - 32 MILES FROM PROVIDENCE

SS 127 THE SIGNAL TOWER AT SHANNOCK

PAWCATUCK RIVER BRIDGE NEAR SHANNOCK SHOWN WHEN NEW IN 1905

Girder is 103 feet 10 inches long, 9 feet deep.

CAROLINA DEPOT WHEN NEW IN 1899 - 33 MILES FROM PROVIDENCE

CAROLINA, RHODE ISLAND

BRIDGE OVER PAWCATUCK RIVER NEAR CAROLINA UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN 1905

THE DECK TRUSS IS 107.5 FEET LONG AND 16.75 FEET DEEP.

BRIDGE OVER PAWCATUCK RIVER NEAR WOOD RIVER JUNCTION UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN 1905

THE PONY TRUSSES ARE 100 FEET 10 INCHES LONG

THE NEW HAVEN I-4 PACIFIC TYPE IS EASTBOUND 35 MILES FROM PROVIDENCE

THE WOOD RIVER BRANCH IS ON THE RIGHT

THE VIEW ALONG THE CONTROL RODS IS FROM THE TOWER

TOWER AT WOOD RIVER JUNCTION - SS126

WOOD RIVER JUNCTION STATION WAS 35 MILES FROM PROVIDENCE

WOOD RIVER BRANCH RAILROAD COMPANY

The 5.6 mile line was opened on July 1, 1874. Although the road received some assistance from the New York, Providence & Boston and the New Haven, it remained independent until the floods of November 1927. The New Haven was persuaded to restore it and buy it in 1928 but regreted the purchase and sold it to a grain mill owner in 1937 for $301.00. It closed in 1947 after the mill burned.

1914 TIMETABLE

WRBRR NUMBER 1 "GARDNER NICHOLS" WAS BUILT BY RHODE ISLAND IN 1876.

OUT OF SERVICE IN 1906

"WINCHECK" WAS BUILT IN 1872 AS B&P NUMBER 12, BECAME P&W 27 AND WAS SOLD TO THE WRBRR IN 1877. IT WAS RETIRED IN 1896.

The WRBRR operated several other steam locomotives including Number 9, a New Haven S-6 Class Forney Type and a New Haven D-10-a Class 4-4-0 Number 1889.

THE STATION AT HOPE VALLEY c.1914

HOPE VALLEY ENGINEHOUSE

No. 9 was built by the Rhode Island Locomotive Works in 1887 for the New York, Providence & Boston.

It was NYNH&H S-6 Class No. 2129 when sold to the WRB. Pictured on the New Haven.

THE 20-TON PLYMOUTH WAS PROVIDED BY THE NEW HAVEN IN 1928.

The A100 was built for the New Haven in 1927.

One reliable source said the caboose was from the Pennsylvania Railroad another source said the New Haven.

A-100 WAS RENUMBERED 1872, THE DATE OF THE WRBRR CHARTER

When the line resumed independence after the New Haven had operated the gasoline locomotive

on the WRBRR since 1928, the Plymouth was leased from the New Haven between 1937

and the line's demise in 1947.

HOPE VALLEY

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