The Gulf tank cars fill a sixty thousand gallon tank. Enough diesel fuel to feed 15 E8 units. In 2008 prices that would be around $200,000.00 worth of Diesel.
By 1972 the roundhouse was gone and soon the truntable would go. These RS3's, SW and E unit would find a new home in the middle of the classification yard near the old hump at a new facility.
Capitol building in background catches the last rays of an early winter sun while Amtrak's Merchant's Limited arrives at Providence enroute to New York city.