Old Colony and Newport Railway

05/21/2026

First ever train rides to the Newport Motor Car Festival! Sunday, June 21, 2026

68th Annual Newport Motor Car Festival - Father's Day Car Show

In partnership with the Portsmouth Tiverton Rotary Club the Newport & Narragansett Bay/Old Colony & Newport Railway will be running excursion trains to the Newport Motor Car Festival in Portsmouth, RI on Sunday June 21, 2026. You can skip the traffic by parking at our Melville Station and taking a quick 10-minute train ride right to the car show! For the price of $5 per person you get a round trip ticket with a return trip time of your choosing. Trains will be departing every hour between 9AM and 2PM from Melville Station located at 2 Alexander Rd. in Portsmouth, RI. Return trips departing the car show start at 10:30AM and the last train leaves at 3PM. If you are parking at the car show and would like to go for a ride hop on and take the train to Melville. During the layover beforeyour return trip you can walk around the railyard in Melville to check out our historic rail equipment on display! Train rides from the Car Show are the same price.

Ticket price is $5 per person at the door. We are accepting cash and checks before boarding in Melville. For the return trip passengers will have to present their ticket to the conductor before boarding. Reservations are not required and boarding will be first come, first serve. Proceeds will benefit the Old Colony & Newport Railway and the Portsmouth Tiverton Rotary Club.

Please arrive 15 minutes prior to departure. The train will be strictly adhering to the advertised times in an effort to stay on schedule. Parking is available at the Grand Bellevue Dinner Train lot located at 2 Alexander Road, Portsmouth, RI.

Car Show Hours: 9AM-3PM

Trains depart Melville for the car show at 9AM, 10AM, 11AM, 12PM, 1PM, & 2PM

Trains depart the car show to return to Melville at 10:30AM, 11:30AM, 12:30PM, 1:30PM, 3PM

Upon arrival at Portsmouth Abbey passengers will disembark from the train and walk up a set of stairs to the field where cars will be on display.

Passengers can return at the time of their choosing. Boarding will be first come first serve.

Price: $5 (Round trip ticket)

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Skip the traffic, take the train!
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Sunday, June 21, 2026
Portsmouth, RI
2 Alexander Rd.

05/20/2026

Here’s some more photos of our volunteer clean up we did this past Sunday. Check back soon for a full report on our efforts! Each image has individual captions with more info.

05/17/2026

Today 8 of our volunteers got together to clean up the first mile of our trackage from Newport Station to the Admiral Kalbfus crossing. We collected several trash bags worth of loose material, shopping carts, tires, and pieces of plywood along the right of way. Unfortunately all of these items were left here by trespassers who littered and dumped these along our tracks. Thanks to a $500 grant from the RIDEM we were able to purchase the necessary supplies for this clean up. We also worked with Clean Cities Newport who provided some supplies and will be disposing of the collected material. This photo shows our group and most of what we collected today. Check back soon for more photos and info on this clean up!

05/16/2026

First ever train rides to the Newport Motor Car Festival! Sunday, June 21, 2026

68th Annual Newport Motor Car Festival - Father's Day Car Show

In partnership with the Portsmouth Tiverton, RI- Rotary Club the Newport & Narragansett Bay/Old Colony & Newport Railway will be running excursion trains to the Newport Motor Car Festival in Portsmouth, RI on Sunday June 21, 2026. You can skip the traffic by parking at our Melville Station and taking a quick 10-minute train ride right to the car show! For the price of $5 per person you get a round trip ticket with a return trip time of your choosing. Trains will be departing every hour between 9AM and 2PM from Melville Station located at 2 Alexander Rd. in Portsmouth, RI. Return trips departing the car show start at 10:30AM and the last train leaves at 3PM. If you are parking at the car show and would like to go for a ride hop on and take the train to Melville. During the layover before your return trip you can walk around the railyard in Melville to check out our historic rail equipment on display! Train rides from the Car Show are the same price.

Ticket price is $5 per person at the door. We are accepting cash and checks before boarding in Melville. For the return trip passengers will have to present their ticket to the conductor before boarding. Reservations are not required and boarding will be first come, first serve. Proceeds will benefit the Old Colony & Newport Railway and the Portsmouth Tiverton Rotary Club.

Please arrive 15 minutes prior to departure. The train will be strictly adhering to the advertised times in an effort to stay on schedule. Parking is available at the Grand Bellevue Dinner Train lot located at 2 Alexander Road, Portsmouth, RI.

Car Show Hours: 9AM-3PM

Trains depart Melville for the car show at 9AM, 10AM, 11AM, 12PM, 1PM, & 2PM

Trains depart the car show to return to Melville at 10:30AM, 11:30AM, 12:30PM, 1:30PM, 3PM

Upon arrival at Portsmouth Abbey passengers will disembark from the train and walk up a set of stairs to the field where cars will be on display.

Passengers can return at the time of their choosing. Boarding will be first come first serve.

Price: $5 (Round trip ticket)

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Skip the traffic, take the train!
__________________

Sunday, June 21, 2026
Portsmouth, RI
2 Alexander Rd.

05/15/2026

Our Melville yard is a great place to see a variety of historic rail equipment! Here we see NNB 43, a General Electric 44 tonner locomotive posed with the 1957 Budd RDC BC15, and our 1904 wood coach from the Boston & Maine Railroad. A MOW speeder is also on display here.

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05/15/2026

The former Fall River McDonald’s car is back on the rails! “New” trucks were sourced from a former NYC car in Chicopee, MA and placed under the car today. This is one of the many steps towards returning it to service so stay tuned for future updates! It’s great to finally have it on the trucks and not taking up room in the dinner train’s parking lot anymore.

05/14/2026

Locomotive 84

Back in 2024 we shipped our 45 ton locomotive #84 to the Seaview Railroad Quonset Shop in North Kingstown, RI. There it’ll be getting the necessary repairs to return to service. Some work has already started but repairs to the engines and trucks will be the bigger lifts! Stay tuned for future updates!

05/12/2026

Greene Lane, Middletown, RI

Back in the day this empty lot was a train station! Until 1937 you could get on a train here that would take you south to Newport or north all the way to Boston. Today it’s an empty lot but could one day be a station again. Imagine parking here and hopping on the train to skip the traffic and parking hassle of downtown Newport. Maybe if the bridge over the Sakonnet River is replaced you could even go to Boston! Maybe one day….For now it’s interesting to look back at history while being excited for what the future could hold.

This view is from locomotive 14 as it passes through Middletown with an equipment move.

05/11/2026

Ever wonder what it looks like when a train changes tracks? Here’s a cool visual from one of our trains taking the siding at Melville north!

05/10/2026

We’re always working on our historic equipment including our 1884 Parlor Car, caboose, locomotive 84, and more! To support us please consider a donation here:

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05/10/2026

There’s plenty of scenic views along the rail line in Portsmouth! Check back soon for details on how you can ride on this line.