New England Autumn Memories
Fall is upon us and soon there should be those colors New England is known the world over for. It's uncertain how good this autumn's foliage will be in 2022 so here's a look back three years.
The Green Mountain Railroad's 1230 Fall Foliage Passenger Special is seen returning to Chester from Ludlow curling downgrade deep in Cavendish Gulf on the old Rutland Railway Green Mountain mainline now Vermont Rail System's Bellows Falls Subdivision. They are approaching the Densmore Road crossing at MP B20.7 on a gorgeous fall day.
Alas this image can't be repeated this year because the Vermont Rail System has decided not to run their excursion trains out of Chester this year and they've sold off most of the green coaches seen here trailing VTR 303. And that's not all, even the locomotive is no more having been retired from the roster and sold off to a lessor. This is a bit of a loss too, since this EMD GP40-2 had deep New England roots having been built new for the Boston and Maine in Dec. 1977 as their number 314 part of the last order of new units ever purchased by the independent (and then bankrupt) road prior to its 1983 purchase by Tim Mellon's Guilford Transportation.
Cavendish, Vermont
Saturday October 5, 2019
New England Autumn Memories
Fall is upon us and soon there should be those colors New England is known the world over for. It's uncertain how good this autumn's foliage will be in 2022 so here's a look back three years.
The Green Mountain Railroad's 1230 Fall Foliage Passenger Special is seen returning to Chester from Ludlow curling downgrade deep in Cavendish Gulf on the old Rutland Railway Green Mountain mainline now Vermont Rail System's Bellows Falls Subdivision. They are approaching the Densmore Road crossing at MP B20.7 on a gorgeous fall day.
Alas this image can't be repeated this year because the Vermont Rail System has decided not to run their excursion trains out of Chester this year and they've sold off most of the green coaches seen here trailing VTR 303. And that's not all, even the locomotive is no more having been retired from the roster and sold off to a lessor. This is a bit of a loss too, since this EMD GP40-2 had deep New England roots having been built new for the Boston and Maine in Dec. 1977 as their number 314 part of the last order of new units ever purchased by the independent (and then bankrupt) road prior to its 1983 purchase by Tim Mellon's Guilford Transportation.
Cavendish, Vermont
Saturday October 5, 2019