Call it the John Quincy Adams. These trains did one thing: carried people from one place to another on the NYNH&H between New York and Boston. March 25, 1957 was a Monday when the eastbound Adams made a station stop in Providence. It was a direct descendent of the Spanish Talgo trials three years earlier, and was built as a joint venture of Fairbanks-Morse and American Car & Foundry. The 1,000 hp engines 3100 and 3101 were delivered in 1957.One year earlier, the 3000 and 3001 held the stage, but they were built by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton with Pullman supplying the coaches. 3100 has arrived on track 4 in Providence. Its conductor is walking up to the head-end to deliver a message. That track in the foreground is the branch going to East Providence via East Side Tunnel.

Photographed by Leo King, March 25, 1957.
Added to the photo archive by Leo King, May 25, 2004.
Railroad: NY, NH & H.

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