Aptly Named
I don't know about you, but I can't get enough of this 70 yr old Alco RS1 hauling revenue freight. So here is another....despite the less than perfect skies I'm sure glad I went!
Due to the normally assigned GMTX geep being down for maintenance the Vermont Railway pressed their ancient Green Mountain Railroad Alco RS1 into freight service on the Bellows Falls switcher all this week. Normally this unit only sees service on the VRS' passenger excursion trains and perhaps use on revenue freights once or twice a year at most. So this week was exceptional, and I'm hard pressed to think of anywhere else in the country an RS1 is used to haul freight anymore.
What is even more special is that this unit is very much on home rails having been built for the Rutland in November 1951. So that means she is approaching her 70th birthday in a few months and has never left the Green Mountain state!
Here she is on track 1 at the west end of the aptly named Riverside Yard doing some switching hard by the Connecticut River near MP B2.6 on modern day VRS' Falls Running Track of the Bellows Falls Subdivision which is the original Rutland Railway Green Mountain mainline.
Rockingham, Vermont
Friday June 11, 2021
Aptly Named
I don't know about you, but I can't get enough of this 70 yr old Alco RS1 hauling revenue freight. So here is another....despite the less than perfect skies I'm sure glad I went!
Due to the normally assigned GMTX geep being down for maintenance the Vermont Railway pressed their ancient Green Mountain Railroad Alco RS1 into freight service on the Bellows Falls switcher all this week. Normally this unit only sees service on the VRS' passenger excursion trains and perhaps use on revenue freights once or twice a year at most. So this week was exceptional, and I'm hard pressed to think of anywhere else in the country an RS1 is used to haul freight anymore.
What is even more special is that this unit is very much on home rails having been built for the Rutland in November 1951. So that means she is approaching her 70th birthday in a few months and has never left the Green Mountain state!
Here she is on track 1 at the west end of the aptly named Riverside Yard doing some switching hard by the Connecticut River near MP B2.6 on modern day VRS' Falls Running Track of the Bellows Falls Subdivision which is the original Rutland Railway Green Mountain mainline.
Rockingham, Vermont
Friday June 11, 2021