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Providence & Worcester Railroad Company
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The Providence and Worcester Railroad Company is a Class II regional railroad operating in CT, MA, NY, VT, and RI. The Company interchanges freight traffic with CSXT at Worcester, MA and New Haven, CT; with Pan Am Railways at Worcester, MA; with Pan Am Southern and Norfolk Southern at Gardner, MA; with New England Central Railroad and Canadian Pacific Railway at Willimantic, CT; with the New York and Atlantic Railroad at Fresh Pond (Queens), NY; with the Connecticut Southern Railroad at Hartford, CT; and with Canadian National Railway at East Alburgh, VT. It operates four classification yards in Worcester, MA, Cumberland, RI, and Plainfield and New Haven, CT. The Worcester, MA and Plainfield, CT locations also house equipment maintenance facilities.The Company transports a wide variety of commodities for its approximately 140 customers, including automobiles, construction aggregates, iron and steel products, chemicals, lumber, scrap metals, plastic resins, cement, coal, ethanol, construction and demolition debris, and processed foods and edible foodstuffs.By agreement with a private operator, the Company also serves an approved customs-bonded intermodal yard in Worcester, MA, primarily for the movement of container traffic from the Far East destined for points in New England. Several major container shipping lines utilize double-stack train service through this terminal.