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52-668: The Warwick Railway ( reporting mark WRWK ) was a railroad in Rhode Island , United States . It was originally chartered in 1873 under the name Warwick Railroad , with a route connecting Cranston to Oakland Beach , eight miles (13 km) away. Opened in 1875, the company survived until 1879 when it declared bankruptcy and shut down; it was resurrected in 1880 as the Rhode Island Central Railroad under New York, Providence and Boston Railroad (NYP&B) ownership and extended by two miles (3.2 km) in length. Following

104-674: A 2-digit code indicating the vehicle's register country . The registered keeper of a vehicle is now indicated by a separate Vehicle Keeper Marking (VKM), usually the name of the owning company or an abbreviation thereof, which must be registered with the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF) and the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) and which is unique throughout Europe and parts of Asia and Northern Africa. The VKM must be between two and five letters in length and can use any of

156-457: A bachelor’s degree or higher was estimated to be 25.3% of the population. 16.9% of the population was under the age of 18, 6.7% from 18 to 24, 25.1% from 25 to 44, 29.4% from 45 to 64, and 21.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 46.0 years. For every 100 females, the population had 108.6 males. For every 100 females ages 18 and older, there were 112.4 males. The 2016-2020 5-year American Community Survey estimates show that

208-689: A border with North Kingstown . Because of the North Kingstown border, Warwick borders two Rhode Island counties: Providence County and Washington County . The following villages are located in Warwick: Warwick is officially a part of the Providence metropolitan area , which has a population of 1,600,852 in the 2010 census . The 2020 United States census counted 82,823 people, 36,555 households, and 21,150 families in Warwick. The population density

260-519: A hero of the Battle of Gettysburg . Today, it is home to Rhode Island's main airport, T. F. Green Airport , which serves the Providence area and also functions as a reliever for Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts . Warwick was also home to Rocky Point , which closed in 1995 and is now a state park. Warwick was settled by Samuel Gorton in 1642. Narragansett Sachem Miantonomi sold him

312-461: A hyphen. Some examples: When a vehicle is sold it will not normally be transferred to another register. The Czech railways bought large numbers of coaches from ÖBB. The number remained the same but the VKM changed from A-ÖBB to A-ČD. The UIC introduced a uniform numbering system for their members based on a 12-digit number, largely known as UIC number . The third and fourth digit of the number indicated

364-654: A mile of straight track, an office and one employee", and it served three industrial customers in Cranston. It was one of the shortest and smallest railroad companies in the United States. A 1977 analysis found that the Warwick Railway was tied with the Mount Vernon Terminal Railroad for the shortest railroad company in the United States. In 1979, the Warwick Railway began the process of selling their line to

416-685: A predecessor of the CNW, from which the UP inherited it. Similarly, during the breakup of Conrail , the long-retired marks of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) and New York Central Railroad (NYC) were temporarily brought back and applied to much of Conrail's fleet to signify which cars and locomotives were to go to CSX (all cars labeled NYC) and which to Norfolk Southern (all cars labeled PRR). Some of these cars still retain their temporary NYC marks. Because of its size, this list has been split into subpages based on

468-560: A tense standoff, all but three of the Gortonists surrendered to the Massachusetts forces. Gorton then sailed back to England and sought a charter from the King. He was greatly assisted in gaining it by Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick , so Gorton and his fellow settlers changed the name of their colony from Shawumet to Warwick. The ongoing harassment from Massachusetts Bay Colony, however, caused

520-601: Is considered part of the Pawtuxet River Valley  [ Wikidata ] . Before its dissolution, Eckerd Corporation had its headquarters in Warwick. The ten largest employers in Warwick are Kent Memorial Hospital, Citizens Bank- Warwick Call Center, UPS, MetLife, City of Warwick, Leviton Manufacturing, Wal-Mart, Community College of Rhode Island, J.C. Penney, Kenney Manufacturing, and Inskip Automall. Local public schools are operated by Warwick Public Schools . Toll Gate High School and Pilgrim High School are

572-459: Is headed by superintendent Lynn Dambruch. Bishop Hendricken High School is an all-male college preparatory Catholic high school located in Warwick. Rocky Hill School is a Pre-K–12 co-ed secular country day school located on Warwick's isolated Potowomut peninsula. The school lists an East Greenwich address, despite being geographically included as part of the city of Warwick. The Community College of Rhode Island Knight Campus

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624-687: The Airport Connector Road . The Rhode Island T. F. Green International Airport is the main airport serving Rhode Island, and is located in Warwick. The name was changed from T.F. Green Airport in 2021. T. F. Green Airport is a station on the Providence/Stoughton Commuter Rail Line , providing weekday service to Providence Station and Boston's South Station . Warwick is located at 41°43′N 71°25′W  /  41.717°N 71.417°W  / 41.717; -71.417 (41.7181, −71.4152). According to

676-642: The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad 's purchase of the NYP&;B in 1892, operations continued with steam power until the Rhode Island Central Railroad's 1899 consolidation with the Rhode Island Suburban Railway , at which point the line was electrified and trolleys replaced steam locomotives. Control subsequently passed to the United Electric Railways in 1921. Passenger trolley service

728-482: The Providence and Worcester Railroad (P&W) began service following the Warwick Railway becoming insolvent. The P&W formally purchased the Warwick Railway in 1982, and maintained freight operations until 1999 before placing the tracks out of service. Two decades later in 2016, the Providence and Worcester began work to reopen the remaining tracks to serve a new customer shipping waste oil. The first incarnation of

780-491: The Providence and Worcester Railroad (P&W). The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized the P&;W to take over rail service starting August 14, 1979, citing the Warwick's "economic inability ... to continue operations". P&W formally took over the Warwick Railway in 1982, and designated the line its Warwick Industrial Track. Oscar Greene worked for the P&W as a locomotive engineer until retiring in 1983. Freight service

832-701: The Stamp Act 1765 and Townshend Acts in Narragansett Bay . It was here that the first blood was spilled in the American Revolution when Gaspee's commanding officer Lt. Dudingston was shot and seriously wounded during the struggle for the ship. The Gaspee was stripped of all cannons and arms, then burned. During the Revolution, Warwick militiamen participated in the battles of Montreal, Quebec , Saratoga , Monmouth , and Trenton , and they were present for

884-643: The TTX Company (formerly Trailer Train Company) is named for its original reporting mark of TTX. In another example, the reporting mark for state-funded Amtrak services in California is CDTX (whereas the usual Amtrak mark is AMTK) because the state transportation agency ( Caltrans ) owns the equipment used in these services. This may also apply to commuter rail, for example Metrolink in Southern California uses

936-557: The United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 49.6 square miles (128 km ), of which 35.5 square miles (92 km ) is land and 14.1 square miles (37 km ) (28.46%) is water. Warwick's entire eastern edge is waterfront, starting with the Providence River at its northern border with Cranston . Conimicut Point marks the end of the river and the beginning of Narragansett Bay , which extends beyond

988-504: The 26 letters of the Latin alphabet . Diacritical marks may also be used, but they are ignored in data processing (for example, Ö is treated as though it is O ). The VKM is preceded by the code for the country (according to the alphabetical coding system described in Appendix 4 to the 1949 convention and Article 45(4) of the 1968 convention on road traffic), where the vehicle is registered and

1040-646: The British surrender at Yorktown in 1781. Major traversing highways include: Interstate 95 is the major thoroughfare of Rhode Island, with the first southbound exit in Warwick at Jefferson Boulevard, and ending with the Route 117 interchange, near the Apponaug rotaries. Interstate 295 connects to the main highway at exit 27, providing direct travel to Woonsocket and Massachusetts . Smaller routes include Route 37 (Lincoln Avenue Freeway) connecting 295 to U.S. Route 1 , and

1092-546: The Lakewood neighborhood of Warwick , leaving two miles (3.2 km) remaining in operation. A newly formed Warwick Railway purchased the remaining line from United Electric in 1949 and began independent freight operations. Electrified service ended in 1952, with the motive power changing to diesel locomotives. In 1954 another mile of the line was abandoned, reducing the Warwick to just under one mile (1.6 km) in length. A husband and wife team, Oscar and Shirley Greene, took over

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1144-462: The North American rail industry. Under current practice, the first letter must match the initial letter of the railroad name. As it also acts as a Standard Carrier Alpha Code , the reporting mark cannot conflict with codes in use by other nonrail carriers. Marks ending with the letter "X" are assigned to companies or individuals who own railcars, but are not operating railroads; for example,

1196-504: The Shawhomett Purchase for 144 fathoms of wampum . This included the towns of Coventry and West Warwick, Rhode Island . However, Sachems Sacononoco and Pumham claimed that Miantonomi had sold the land without asking for their approval. They took their case to Boston, where they placed their lands under Massachusetts rule. In 1643, Massachusetts Bay Colony sent a militia force to Shawomett to arrest Gorton and his followers. After

1248-657: The VKM BLS. Example for an "Einheitswagen" delivered in 1957: In the United Kingdom, prior to nationalisation, wagons owned by the major railways were marked with codes of two to four letters, these codes normally being the initials of the railway concerned; for example, wagons of the Great Western Railway were marked "G W"; those of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway were marked "L M S", etc. The codes were agreed between

1300-536: The Warwick Railroad going bankrupt and ending operations in 1879. The Warwick's connection in Cranston, the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad, decided to take over the bankrupt line and operate it, reorganizing the Warwick as a new subsidiary named the Rhode Island Central Railroad and reopening service in 1880. A two-mile (3.2 km) extension was built westward from Oakland Beach to Buttonwoods, Rhode Island ,

1352-544: The Warwick Railway was formed by charter in 1873 as the Warwick Railroad, with authorization to build from a connection with the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad (NYP&B) in Cranston, Rhode Island , to the coastal neighborhood of Oakland Beach, Rhode Island . The last spike was driven to complete this 8.52-mile (13.71 km) long line on December 3, 1874, at a total cost of approximately $ 200,000 (equivalent to $ 4,574,706 in 2020); passenger service began on July 4 of

1404-531: The acquiring company discontinues the name or mark of the acquired company, the discontinued mark is referred to as a "fallen flag" railway. Occasionally, long-disused marks are suddenly revived by the companies which now own them. For example, in recent years, the Union Pacific Railroad has begun to use the mark CMO on newly built covered hoppers, gondolas and five-bay coal hoppers. CMO originally belonged to Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway ,

1456-565: The age of 18 and 9.2% of those ages 65 or over. Warwick is split into three districts in the Rhode Island Senate which are currently held by Democrats Michael McCaffrey (District 29), Jeanine Calkin (District 30), and Kendra Anderson (District 31). The town is a part of Rhode Island's 2nd congressional district , which is currently represented by Democrat Seth Magaziner . It is traditionally Democratic in presidential elections; no Republican has carried it in over three decades. It

1508-505: The city's southern limit on its way to the Atlantic Ocean ; two southern Warwick peninsulas, Warwick Neck and Potowomut , enclose the water to form Greenwich Bay . Warwick is bordered by Cranston to the north, West Warwick to the west, and East Greenwich to the south. The city's southernmost neighborhood, Potowomut, is a semi-exclave , reachable by land only by passing through East Greenwich; through Potowomut, Warwick also shares

1560-448: The first letter of the reporting mark: A railway vehicle must be registered in the relevant state's National Vehicle Register (NVR), as part of which process it will be assigned a 12-digit European Vehicle Number (EVN). The EVN schema is essentially the same as that used by the earlier UIC numbering systems for tractive vehicles and wagons , except that it replaces the 2-digit vehicle owner's code (see § Europe 1964 to 2005 ) with

1612-474: The following year. Initially, the NYP&B operated the line, until the Warwick Railroad began operations itself in 1876. Service was initially provided by a steam locomotive pulling passenger cars, but within one to two years this was replaced by a steam dummy to cut costs. Service became unreliable, with anecdotes of passengers gathering water from nearby wells to feed the dummy's boiler when it ran dry during operations. Continuing troubles with services led to

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1664-454: The information with other railroads and customers. In multinational registries, a code indicating the home country may also be included. The Association of American Railroads (AAR) assigns marks to all carriers, under authority granted by the U.S. Surface Transportation Board , Transport Canada , and Mexican Government. Railinc , a subsidiary of the AAR, maintains the active reporting marks for

1716-414: The line is indicated as active on P&W's website. Reporting mark In North America , the mark, which consists of an alphabetic code of two to four letters, is stenciled on each piece of equipment, along with a one- to six-digit number. This information is used to uniquely identify every such rail car or locomotive, thus allowing it to be tracked by the railroad it is traveling over, which shares

1768-503: The line was electrified and steam power replaced with trolleys . In 1921, United Electric Railways took over from the Rhode Island Suburban Railway, which had gone into receivership . Faced with increasing competition from automobiles , trolley service declined in frequency before being eliminated in 1935. The line continued to be operated in freight service with electric locomotives, but was abandoned from Buttonwoods to

1820-419: The median household income was $ 73,285 (with a margin of error of +/- $ 2,534) and the median family income was $ 90,027 (+/- $ 4,102). Males had a median income of $ 51,057 (+/- $ 1,899) versus $ 39,959 (+/- $ 1,627) for females. The median income for those above 16 years old was $ 44,491 (+/- $ 1,873). Approximately, 3.8% of families and 7.2% of the population were below the poverty line , including 7.0% of those under

1872-620: The other three colonies on Narragansett Bay ( Providence Plantations , Portsmouth , and Newport ) to unite with Warwick and get a British royal charter allowing them to form the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations . In 1772, Warwick was the scene of the first violent act against the British Crown in the Gaspee Affair . Local patriots boarded the Gaspee , a revenue cutter that enforced

1924-557: The owner of a reporting mark is taken over by another company, the old mark becomes the property of the new company. For example, when the Union Pacific Railroad (mark UP) acquired the Chicago and North Western Railway (mark CNW) in 1995, it retained the CNW mark rather than immediately repaint all acquired equipment. Some companies own several marks that are used to identify different classes of cars, such as boxcars or gondolas. If

1976-405: The owner, or more precisely the keeper of the vehicle. Thus each UIC member got a two-digit owner code . With the introduction of national vehicle registers this code became a country code. Some vehicles had to be renumbered as a consequence. The Swiss company BLS Lötschbergbahn had the owner code 63. When their vehicles were registered, they got numbers with the country code 85 for Switzerland and

2028-491: The railroad in 1960. Oscar Greene had previously been a motorman with the United Electric Railway when it operated the line, as had Loris J. Bass, the company's only other employee. Shirley Greene referred to Bass, who in addition to being the company's chief engineer, simultaneously held the roles of " brakeman , conductor , maintenance of way crew [and] track engineer", as the "most needed man in Cranston". By 1970,

2080-489: The railroad was regularly operating two vintage switcher locomotives, including a 425-horsepower, 65-ton Vulcan diesel, and a 50-ton Atlas Car and Manufacturing Company locomotive. Oscar Greene also kept a restored 35-ton GE gas-electric locomotive on the railroad which he worked on restoring in his spare time. In 1976, the company's assets, not counting the Greenes, were "two working locomotives, an engine house, nine-tenths of

2132-703: The railways and registered with the Ministry of Railways , Government of India . Warwick, Rhode Island Warwick ( / ˈ w ɒr ɪ k / WORR -ik or / ˈ w ɔːr w ɪ k / WOR -wik ) is a city in Kent County, Rhode Island , United States, and is the third-largest city in the state, with a population of 82,823 at the 2020 census . Warwick is located approximately 12 miles (19 km) south of downtown Providence, Rhode Island , 63 miles (101 km) southwest of Boston, Massachusetts , and 171 miles (275 km) northeast of New York City . Warwick

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2184-727: The railways and registered with the Railway Clearing House . In India, wagons owned by the Indian Railways are marked with codes of two to four letters, these codes normally being the initials of the railway divisions concerned along with the Hindi abbreviation; for example, trains of the Western Railway zone are marked "WR" and "प रे"; those of the Central Railway zone are marked "CR" and "मध्य", etc. The codes are agreed between

2236-794: The reporting mark SCAX because the equipment is owned by the Southern California Regional Rail Authority —which owns the Metrolink system—even though it is operated by Amtrak. This is why the reporting mark for CSX Transportation , which is an operating railroad, is CSXT instead of CSX. Private (non-common carrier) freight car owners in Mexico were issued, up until around 1990, reporting marks ending in two X's, possibly to signify that their cars followed different regulations (such as bans on friction bearing trucks) than their American counterparts and so their viability for interchange service

2288-598: The right of way ahead of a potential return of the tracks to active use, removing all vegetation. This upset local residents, who appealed to the Cranston mayor to intervene; he was unable to do so, as railroad right of ways are regulated by the state and federal governments. Subsequently, representatives from P&W and the prospective customer, a waste oil processing company, attended a meeting with local residents to listen to their concerns about safety and noise. Customer Clean Harbors projected service would run two to three days per week, beginning in early 2017. As of March 2022,

2340-572: The same year. The NYP&B was taken over by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in 1892, and the Rhode Island Central in turn passed to the New Haven as well. Operations continued largely as before until 1899, when the New Haven consolidated the Rhode Island Central with its Rhode Island Suburban Railway , its streetcar subsidiary in Rhode Island. As a result of this consolidation,

2392-481: The two comprehensive public high schools located in Warwick. The high schools are set for renovations in March 2025, a year after the city council issued a $ 350 million bond to rebuild them. The two public middle schools are Winman Junior High School and Warwick Veterans Junior High School. Aldrich Junior High School and Gorton Junior High School closed in 2016 as part of the school consolidation project. The school department

2444-531: Was 2,366.3 inhabitants per square mile (913.6/km ). There were 38,625 housing units at an average density of 1,103.5 per square mile (426.1/km ). The racial makeup was 85.69% (70,967) white or European American (84.28% non-Hispanic white ), 2.11% (1,751) black or African-American , 0.3% (252) Native American or Alaska Native , 3.11% (2,575) Asian , 0.02% (13) Pacific Islander or Native Hawaiian , 2.58% (2,138) from other races , and 6.19% (5,127) from two or more races . Hispanic or Latino of any race

2496-429: Was 6.06% (5,019) of the population. Of the 36,555 households, 22.5% had children under the age of 18; 42.6% were married couples living together; 30.5% had a female householder with no spouse or partner present. 33.8% of households consisted of individuals and 16.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.3 and the average family size was 2.9. The percent of those with

2548-438: Was discontinued in 1935, but freight service continued; the following year, the line was cut back from its 10-mile (16 km) maximum length to just two miles (3.2 km). In 1949, the line was purchased by a newly formed Warwick Railway, which ended electrified service in favor of diesel locomotives in 1952, and abandoned another mile (1.6 km) of track in 1954. The Warwick Railway provided freight service until 1979, when

2600-661: Was founded by Samuel Gorton in 1642 and has witnessed major events in American history. It was decimated during King Philip's War (1675–1676) and was the site of the Gaspee Affair , the first act of armed resistance against the British, preceding even the Boston Tea Party , and a significant prelude to the American Revolution . Warwick was also the home of Revolutionary War General Nathanael Greene , George Washington's second-in-command, and Civil War General George S. Greene ,

2652-564: Was impaired. This often resulted in five-letter reporting marks, an option not otherwise allowed by the AAR. Companies owning trailers used in trailer-on-flatcar service are assigned marks ending with the letter "Z", and the National Motor Freight Traffic Association , which maintains the list of Standard Carrier Alpha Codes, assigns marks ending in "U" to owners of intermodal containers . The standard ISO 6346 covers identifiers for intermodal containers. When

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2704-414: Was provided to a chemicals company and a plastics manufacturer until 1999, at which point no customers remained and the line was placed out of service. Following this point, no trains ran and the right of way became overgrown, leading local residents to trim plant growth and plant their own vegetation, including trees and shrubs. In late 2016, Providence and Worcester work crews arrived and began restoring

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