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In 1911 that there were 106 regular stopping places for trains in Rhode Island and 39 flag stops. Station buildings or shelters were reported to number 128.
The Burnside Rifle Company was converted after the Civil War into The Rhode Island Locomotive Works which was prosperous for the first several years selling about a hundred locomotives a year all over the US and Mexico, produced by about 300 to a high of 1,300 employees.
That area in Providence is now known as American Locomotive Works.
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