Nasonville Valley Railroad

The Nasonville Valley Railroad Company is a private track located in the northern Rhode Island. We are a 1-1/2″ scale, 7-1/4″ gauge Live Steam Railroad.

We held our Golden Spike ceremony and solemn blessing and dedication of the railroad on May 24, 2008. The mainline is 1,538′. Along the main line, you cross a 92′ long and 11′ high trestle made out of local, rough cut lumber, a 20′ long tunnel, a 10′ long covered bridge and 5′ open bridge crossing a water culvert.  The mainline has 3,586 ties and 15,016 track screws, with an overall of 4,313 ties and 17,274 screws.  We used 160 tons of ballast and we are ready to order another load for tweaking and leveling.

In the fall of 2015, we began clearing for the Mountain Division extension. This will add another 1000′ with a 250′ long trestle. We also double tracked one area that will become a reverse loop. After this phase is finished, there will be an extension from the loop, bypassing the tunnel and up the the current trestle which will be either expanded or replaced for a double track making the main line about 4000′.

Live steamers are most welcome to help in construction and are welcome to run their locomotives by appointment. Those interested in assisting in building the Mountain Division are invited to sent an email.

During the summer of 2005, we finished all grading, built a 92′ long trestle, 10′ bridge (our current covered bridge) and laid some 600′ of rail (and balasted most of it).  In the summer of 2006, we laid and ballasted another 938′ of main line. In 2007, we built a turntable, three steaming bays, an engine house with another steaming bay and a loading bay.  Three weeks before our Golden Spike we moved 300′ of the main line and leads to the steaming bays to widen the radius to better accommodate larger locomotives.  We are now in the process of tweaking the whole track.