Quonset Point was, during WWII a Naval Air station, Home of the Fighting Seabees and the Quonset hut. The base is closed and the area is being rebuilt as a Industrial park. Here a car sits on Seaview Transportations track advertising the areas' future. There is more milage of track on the former base than most shortlines will ever know, and most of it lays dormant. But there are plans underway to rejuvenate the area. Currently there is an additional track being laid along the Amtrak main from Davisville to Providence to be used as a freight line.
Oh..and there is an Air Museum on the former base and a Seabee museum.

Photographed by Mark Beebe, June 14, 1998.
Added to the photo archive by Mark Beebe, January 16, 2006.
Railroad: Seaview Railroad.

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