0000914260-15-000045.txt : 20150630 0000914260-15-000045.hdr.sgml : 20150630 20150630162537 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000914260-15-000045 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: S-8 POS PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20150630 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20150630 EFFECTIVENESS DATE: 20150630 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PROVIDENCE & WORCESTER RAILROAD CO/RI/ CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000831968 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: RAILROADS, LINE-HAUL OPERATING [4011] IRS NUMBER: 050344399 STATE OF INCORPORATION: RI FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: S-8 POS SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-65949 FILM NUMBER: 15961706 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 75 HAMMOND ST CITY: WORCESTER STATE: MA ZIP: 01610 BUSINESS PHONE: 5087554000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: PROVIDENCE & WORCESTER RAILROAD CO STREET 2: 75 HAMMOND STREET CITY: WORCESTER STATE: MA ZIP: 01610 S-8 POS 1 pos1s8.htm POST EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-8
 
 
 
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-65949

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

PROVIDENCE & WORCESTER RAILROAD COMPANY
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
 
 
 
 
         
Rhode Island
(State or Other Jurisdiction of
 Incorporation or Organization)
 
  
 
05-0344399
(I.R.S. Employer
 Identification Number)

75 Hammond Street, Worcester, MA 01610
(508) 755-4000
(Address and telephone of
 registrant’s principal executive offices)

Providence and Worcester Railroad Company Non-Qualified Stock Option Plan
 (Full Title of the Plans)

Daniel T. Noreck
75 Hammond Street, Worcester, MA 01610
(508) 755-4000
 (Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)

Copies To:

Stephen J. Carlotti, Esq.
Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP
100 Westminster Street, Suite 1500
Providence, Rhode Island 02903
 (401) 274-2000
 
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

Large accelerated filer ☐
Accelerated filer ☐ 
Non-accelerated filer 
 (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)
Smaller reporting company ☒

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, check the following box: ☐

DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
This Post-Effective Amendment relates to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 of Providence & Worcester Railroad Company, a Rhode Island corporation, File No. 333-65949 (the “Registration Statement”), pertaining to the registration of 108,895 shares of the Registrant’s common stock, $0.50 par value per share (the “Common Shares”), issuable under the Registrant’s Non-Qualified Stock Option Plan (the “Non-Qualified Stock Option Plan”), which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 21, 1998.
On April 29, 2015, the shareholders of the Registrant approved the 2015 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2015 Plan”), which replaces the Non-Qualified Stock Option Plan. No future awards will be made under the Non-Qualified Stock Option Plan and the shares remaining available for issuance under the Non-Qualified Stock Option Plan are hereby deregistered.
SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Rule 478 thereunder, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of East Providence, State of Rhode Island, on June 30, 2015.

  PROVIDENCE & WORCESTER RAILROAD COMPANY  
       
 
By:
/s/ Robert H. Eder  
    Robert H. Eder  
    Title:  Chief Executive Officer  
       


Note: No other person is required to sign this Post-Effective Amendment to Registration Statement in reliance on Rule 478 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.