Flooding the tracks with ballastA private company is flooding the tracks in Cromwell, CT with ballast in preparation of several moves of large power plant equipment. This equipment will be moved by tug and barge up the Connecticut River, offloaded onto special trucks. The trucks will move the equipment to the tracks where it will be moved onto flat cars then moved by rail to Middletown, CT. The moves are scheduled sometime in December and/or January.
Photographed by Bob Niesyn, November 20, 2008.
Added to the photo archive by Robert Niesyn, November 20, 2008.
Railroad: Providence & Worcester.
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