Red Redux
I did this shot a couple months prior with a blue leaser in the lead as seen here: flic.kr/p/2nFRZeX and have been wanting to attempt a do over with a proper red leader. And here it is.
Vermont Railway train 263 is slowing for a stop beside the Chester depot for the crew to grab luncc in this view ooking down the rusty rails of the Back Track that loops around the station. Leading the way is SD70M-2 431 built in December 2006 for the Florida East Coast, and one of only two six axle units on the roster. She is trailed by three geeps and thirty cars destined for Riverside Yard in Rockingham here at MP B13.5 on the Green Mountain Railroad's Bellows Falls Subdivision. This line dates from 1849 when the mainline from Bellows Falls to Burlington opened for business by the Rutland Railroad's precursor company.
At left is a classic old time Vermont Institution, the R.B Erskine feed store. While the sign says established 1952 there has actually been a feed store here much longer. The original R.B. Erskine was elsewhere in town but moved into this spot around 1962 when they purchased it from Park and Pollard that had operated a feed store going back much longer. It was a feed store at least as far back as 1939 when a young Richard Bedford Erskine started managing it before striking out on his own and from what I can find online it appears that it was a feed store as far back as 1917 though I don't know exactly how old the simple false fronted building actually is. To read a little history of the store if you're interested in that sort of thing check out this link: vermontjournal.com/featured-articles/erskines-feed-store-... And happily the store reopened in January 2021 under new ownership but keeping the name and this Vermont institution alive.
Chester, Vermont
Tuesday October 18, 2022
Red Redux
I did this shot a couple months prior with a blue leaser in the lead as seen here: flic.kr/p/2nFRZeX and have been wanting to attempt a do over with a proper red leader. And here it is.
Vermont Railway train 263 is slowing for a stop beside the Chester depot for the crew to grab luncc in this view ooking down the rusty rails of the Back Track that loops around the station. Leading the way is SD70M-2 431 built in December 2006 for the Florida East Coast, and one of only two six axle units on the roster. She is trailed by three geeps and thirty cars destined for Riverside Yard in Rockingham here at MP B13.5 on the Green Mountain Railroad's Bellows Falls Subdivision. This line dates from 1849 when the mainline from Bellows Falls to Burlington opened for business by the Rutland Railroad's precursor company.
At left is a classic old time Vermont Institution, the R.B Erskine feed store. While the sign says established 1952 there has actually been a feed store here much longer. The original R.B. Erskine was elsewhere in town but moved into this spot around 1962 when they purchased it from Park and Pollard that had operated a feed store going back much longer. It was a feed store at least as far back as 1939 when a young Richard Bedford Erskine started managing it before striking out on his own and from what I can find online it appears that it was a feed store as far back as 1917 though I don't know exactly how old the simple false fronted building actually is. To read a little history of the store if you're interested in that sort of thing check out this link: vermontjournal.com/featured-articles/erskines-feed-store-... And happily the store reopened in January 2021 under new ownership but keeping the name and this Vermont institution alive.
Chester, Vermont
Tuesday October 18, 2022