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Old Colony and Newport Scenic RW.

Newport, RI

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This railroad travels along scenic Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island.  It is a eighteen mile scenic trip along the bay and leaves from Newport, RI.  The schedule for the 1998 year is posted below as PDF file.  This tourist line is maintained by volunteer help from the Rhode Island and Massachusetts area.  The images below are provided by Jeremy Hanson, a volunteer on the railroad.  The main locomotive power on this line is a GE center cab.

Frequency:

• 160.395  (I have not tried it)

Best places to view this railroad:

• Newport Train Depot near Convention and Visitor's Bureau and Bus Station
• Portsmouth, RI near "old" Naval Oil Storage depot (Davisville) on Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island, USA

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These photos are provided through the courtesy of Jeremy Hanson, Old Colony and Newport, RW volunteer.  Please respect his rights to these photos and all the others on this web site.  (Dave Laroche, web site editor)

The Old Colony and Newport RW. center cab

A view from the inside of the center cab

Coach 74 of the Old Colony and Newport RW.

The following PDF file is a rendering of the 1998 brochure and schedule.   You must use the Acrobat Reader for PDF files to view this document or have a Netscape or Internet Explorer browser setup to read these documents.

ocn-1998.PDF

*  This inline image is from the Old Colony and Newport RW. brochure for the 1998 season.