WEST END STEAM 2

A SECOND PAGE OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF STEAM LOCOMOTIVES AT THE

WEST END OF THE NEW UNION DEPOT

Atlantic type 1111 was built by Schenectady in 1907

An I-1 Pacific type locomotive powers the train about to depart westbound (right) while an Atlantic type approaches from the west. A westbound freight train can be seen in the center of the c.1913 photograph.

During World War II, oil shipments by water were prevented by submarine activity and consequently oil trains were frequent.

Photo shows a Y-2 0-8-0 switcher moving a train through the station for the tunnel to East Providence and the refineries there.

I-2 Class Pacific 1303 was built by Brooks in 1913

The engineer of westbound I-3 Class 1095 quickly oils the running gear of his 1913 Baldwin during a short station stop at Union Station. The train is most likely a Boston to New York express.

New I-4 Pacific Number 1360 was built by Schenectady in 1916. The unusually large oil headlight was soon replaced by an electric headlight.

I-4 Pacific 1361 leads Train 11 westbound on April 19, 1931. The railroad office building and the new Industrial Trust building are on the right. The track on the right held Pullmans for the night trains.

I-4 Pacific 1388 powers "The Senator" for Washington, D.C. on May 12, 1935

U-1-a Class 0-6-0 2512 is switching the west end of the Union Station on October 22, 1913. The switching engine was built by the Rhode Island Locomotive Works in 1890 for the New York, Providence & Boston. The Union Station required considerable switching activity to add or remove coaches, pullmans, mail or express cars. A passenger car storage yard was built at Charles Street as part of the Union Station project.

T-2-a Class 0-6-0 2306 was built by the Rhode Island Locomotive Works in 1902. It appears to be switching a Pullman car on this day in April 1938. "Silk Hat Local" has been chalked on the number plate on the smokebox door.

THE LAST OF STEAM

MARCH 20, 1956

Regular steam operations on the New Haven RR ended in early 1952 but three J-1 Class 2-8-2 steam locomotives were retained to provide steam to snow clearing equipment that lifted snow and dumped it in a tank where it was melted with live steam from a locomotive. Number 3020, shown removing snow at Union Station, did not move under its own power but only supplied steam. The U.S.Army diesel, which was borrowed to help recover from floods several months before, moved the steam locomotive and snow lifter-melter.

THE MARCH EVENT WAS THE LAST USE OF A NEW HAVEN STEAM LOCOMOTIVE IN PROVIDENCE

The three J-1 Class steam locomotives were scrapped in the year 1958.

Another March 20, 1956 view of J-1 3020 being used to melt snow cleared by the Barber-Greene snow lifter.