Packerville was the first station stop west of Plainfield (it is still within the town of Plainfield, very close to the Canterbury line.) It is out in the countryside, and and the landmarks that distinguish it are Packerville Baptist Church, the 19th Century bridge holding Packerville Road, Packers' Pond and the dam holding it back, and this railroad crossing, a vintage view of which can be seen on the Tyler City Station site.
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Looking northwest across Packers' Pond. The bridge over Mill Brook, just west of the dam spillway, is evident. (11/2023.) |
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A close up of the bridge in the previous photo at the edge of Packers' Pond (11/2023.) |
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Looking northeast from the Lowes Way crossing over the Packers' Pond Dam (11/2023.) |
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Looking southwest from the Lowes Way crossing. An October, 1927 photo at this location on the Tyler City Station site seems to show a siding and small station building to the right of the current track (11/2023.) |
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A pair of Providence and
Worcester GE Dash-8 locomotives leads a Willimantic-bound freight
through the crossing at Packerville. The lead unit, 3901, is a B39-8 that was built for LMX leasing in April, 1988. The trailing locomotive, 4007, is a B40-8W that was built for the Atchison, Topeka, and Sante Fe Railway in April, 1992. The two make for an interesting looking consist, being very similar locomotives with very different cabs. (12/2023.) |
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Two covered hoppers (Interstate Commodities' INTX 1146 (built possibly 5/1979) and Canadian National's CN 382216 (built possibly 1981) ,) a boxcar (Iowa Northern Rwy's IANR 8073 (built 1/1979) ,) and a tank car (General American Marks Company tank car GATX 69762 (built 3/1995) ,) move through the crossing at Packerville, CT |
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Greenbriar Management Services gondola AOKX 42313 (built 8-2022) carying the end-of-train device heads towards Willimantic at the end of the train in the previous photo. Note
that the site of the Packerville Depot, 37.5 miles from Providence on
my 1913 NYNH&H schedule, is MP 1.78 on today's Providence &
Worcester Willimantic Line (12/2023.) |
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A bit further down the line, MP
3 of the Willimantic line is just visible in the distance. Looking
northeast from the Butts Bridge Rd (CT Rte 668) overpass (12/2023.) |
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Same as above, but zoomed in to make the MP3 milepost easy to see (12/2023.) |
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The current Butts Bridge Road (CT Rte 668) overpass was rebuilt by CDOT in 1979 (12/2023.) |
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Looking southwest from the Butts Bridge Rd (CT Rte 668) overpass in December, 2023. |
All rolling stock identification was done with www.rrpicturearchives.net
In particular I would like to acknowledge Leighton L. Haeseler, who has seen a lot of these same cars (they seem to be repeat visitors to Connecticut) and takes the time to research their build dates and histories. His work confirmed many of the identifications here.
After this point, the railroad curves towards Aspinook Pond and the Quinebaug River, which I cover on the Canterbury page.
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