Abandoned Old Colony coaches in RI

Hello All,

Are these on anyone's radar? Forgotten Old Colony cars?

http://www.fallout-ue.com/locations/ritrain/

ted_roy wrote:Hello All,

Are these on anyone's radar? Forgotten Old Colony cars?

http://www.fallout-ue.com/locations/ritrain/

That doesn't look like former NYNH&H equipment to me.

The car in the top photo is a former Pennsylvania RR P70 coach. They were fairly common in Boston commuter service in the 1970s.

Define "Old Colony."
The OCRR did not exist long enough to have steel coaches before they were absorbed into the NH.
However, as pointed out, they COULD have been used by PC in commuter service AFTER the NH was absorbed by Penn Central.

The cars have Old Colony on their letterboard. That is why I stated Old Colony.

Ted.

Old Colony & Newport tourist railroad, maybe? They are clearly not from the "real" OCRR.

Were these cars restored and used on the Newport Dinner train? There is only one car on the whole Aquidneck Island that I could find that was not part of "known" equipment.

IIRC, there are two cabeese, a flat car, the two wooden coaches, the two 45-ton GE engines. These are part of the Old Colony.
http://goo.gl/maps/FGVwt

There are 2 RDCs from the Hobo Railroad, a 44-tonner, and 3 streamliner passenger cars, a power car and older rounded roof car. These are part of the dinner train, etc.
http://goo.gl/maps/Ohd4F

The only other car I can find on that section of the rails is another round roof car back toward where the Old Colony stores their equipment.
http://goo.gl/maps/RXbxc
More specifically
http://goo.gl/maps/hCGk4
http://binged.it/UHs8r1

Thoughts?

These coaches are no longer around, they were scrapped by the owner of the land surounding that section of the rail line, after he purchased them from the state of RI. These were PC commuter coaches turned OCNRR tourist cars up until the current wooden cars were donated.