Sugar River
A Vermont Railway Qualifying Extra is seen blasting north over the Sugar River trestle in Claremont, NH on the NECR Palmer Subdivision. With the closure of the Middlebury Tunnel on the VRS Northern Subdivision starting in the coming weeks, Vermont Railway will be detouring trains over the former CV now New England Central mainline from Burlington to Bellows Falls, providing some unique photo opportunities for a normally nocturnal stretch of railroad. Although I would like to see matching VRS power, the power will primarily be GATX GP38-2's that were leased by the State of Vermont specifically for these detours.
Sugar River
A Vermont Railway Qualifying Extra is seen blasting north over the Sugar River trestle in Claremont, NH on the NECR Palmer Subdivision. With the closure of the Middlebury Tunnel on the VRS Northern Subdivision starting in the coming weeks, Vermont Railway will be detouring trains over the former CV now New England Central mainline from Burlington to Bellows Falls, providing some unique photo opportunities for a normally nocturnal stretch of railroad. Although I would like to see matching VRS power, the power will primarily be GATX GP38-2's that were leased by the State of Vermont specifically for these detours.