Crossing the Canal on the CLP
The AAPRCO's Autumn Explorer is starting east on Vermont Rail System's Clarendon and Pittsford Railroad mainline having just swung off the Canadian Pacific mainline. They just crossed the main channel of the Champlain Canal and are now crossing an oxbow near where Mud Creek flows in as they approach the Williams Street crossing at MP A78.
The train left Albany-Rensselaer in the morning behind two Amtrak P42s as extra train 863 and traveled up CP's ex D&H Canadian main. At Whitehall they diverged on to CLP mainline, the former D&H Rutland branch (hence the milepost prefix of A for Albany as measured by that historic road). In Rutland the Amtrak power will be exchanged for red GP40-2 307 that will take the train south all the way to Hoosick Junction before returning to North Bennington to spend the night. The following day the train will travel north to Burlington where it will spend a few days.
The eight PVs on this year's trip listed in order are the: NYC 3, Promontory Point, Northern Sky, Northern Dreams, Dagny Taggart, San Marino, Wisconsin, and Chapel Hill.
Whitehall, New York
Sunday September 27, 2020
Crossing the Canal on the CLP
The AAPRCO's Autumn Explorer is starting east on Vermont Rail System's Clarendon and Pittsford Railroad mainline having just swung off the Canadian Pacific mainline. They just crossed the main channel of the Champlain Canal and are now crossing an oxbow near where Mud Creek flows in as they approach the Williams Street crossing at MP A78.
The train left Albany-Rensselaer in the morning behind two Amtrak P42s as extra train 863 and traveled up CP's ex D&H Canadian main. At Whitehall they diverged on to CLP mainline, the former D&H Rutland branch (hence the milepost prefix of A for Albany as measured by that historic road). In Rutland the Amtrak power will be exchanged for red GP40-2 307 that will take the train south all the way to Hoosick Junction before returning to North Bennington to spend the night. The following day the train will travel north to Burlington where it will spend a few days.
The eight PVs on this year's trip listed in order are the: NYC 3, Promontory Point, Northern Sky, Northern Dreams, Dagny Taggart, San Marino, Wisconsin, and Chapel Hill.
Whitehall, New York
Sunday September 27, 2020