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Transportation Company - Warwick - Railroad
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Company NameWarwick
CategoryRailroad
Year Founded1949
Final Year of Operation1979
TerminationAcquired
Successor/ParentProvidence & Worcester (Details)
CountryUnited States (Details)
Source of TextBluford Shops
Text Credit URLLink
Transportation Company - Warwick - Railroad



Company History: The WRWK was born from the 1949 sale and reorganization of the United Electric Railway. They ran two miles of line in the greater Providence, Rhode Island area. Two years after the sale, the new owners took down the trolley wire and acquired a diesel. They also abandoned half the railroad, leaving just nine tenths of a mile. In 1960, the WRWK was sold again, this time to the Greene family who operated it for the next 19 years. Warwick did participate in the shortline per diem boxcar boom of the 1970s with a modest fleet of dark green boxcars. In 1979, the Greene family sold the railroad to the Providence & Worcester who finally merged the line in 1984. They continue to use the WRWK reporting marks on many freight cars, including new ones.
Successor/Parent History:
The Providence and Worcester Railroad (reporting mark PW) (NASDAQ: PWX) is a Class II railroad in the United States. The railroad connects from Gardner in central Massachusetts, south through its namesake cities of Worcester and Providence, Rhode Island, and west from Rhode Island through Connecticut and into New York City. The railroad's connection between New Haven, Connecticut and New York City and onto Long Island is via trackage rights over the Hell Gate Bridge.

The P&W was incorporated in Massachusetts as the Providence and Worcester Railway on March 12, 1844, and as the Providence and Worcester Railroad in Rhode Island in May 1844. The two companies were merged November 25, 1845 as the Providence and Worcester Railroad. The company bought the Blackstone Canal, also running between Providence and Worcester, and began construction, partly on its banks, in 1845. The line opened in two sections, the part south of Millville on September 27, 1847, and the rest on October 20. The line from Providence to Central Falls was shared with the Boston and Providence Railroad, which at the same time built a connection from its old line (ending in East Providence) over to the P&W.

On July 1, 1892, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad leased the P&W for 99 years. The New Haven merged into Penn Central on January 1, 1969. On April 6, 1970, the P&W announced its intention to separate from the merger. After a legal battle, the Interstate Commerce Commission approved the request on August 25, 1972, and, on November 2, Penn Central signed the agreement, effective December 30. The P&W cancelled the lease on February 3, 1973. Since then, the P&W has taken over many other lines from the former Penn Central in addition to several from the Boston and Maine Railroad. On March 17, 2013, a freight derailed in New Haven, Connecticut, blocking Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.
Brief History:
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Item created by: gdm on 2017-10-10 09:59:07. Last edited by Lethe on 2020-05-07 00:00:00

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