Red Engines And Green Grass
Just another wider frame of this scene cause it's just so cool despite the sad light...or lack thereof.
While I lucked out with sun in most spots of the chase this was a particular disappointment since it was such a cool scene that would have been stunning in full sun. CPKC GP20C-ECO 2280 and VTR GP38-2 209 lead train NPWJ south past Morrison's Custom Feeds mill at about MP L53.2. The track here reminds me of those old photos of the Milwaukee Road branchlines in the Dakotas back in the 1970s that had to be mowed. They did not stop to switch here at this long time steady customer and kept on rolling along through the grass that has grown rampantly due to leakage from hoppers when trains stop here to work.
The Canadian Pacific Railway had been operating in the state of Vermont for 115 years when they finally retrenched in 1996 and sold the Newport and Lyndonville Subs to Iron Roads Railways which created the new Northern Vermont Railway which took over on September 28th of that year. The Iron Roads system was bankrupt within a half dozen years and the NV ceased to exist with the Lyndonville Sub and the former Boston and Maine Conn River Mainline between Newport and White River Junction being purchased by the State of Vermont and contracted to Vermont Rail System's Washington County Railroad Subsidiary. The WACR is now at the two decade mark operating the 103 mile line while the Newport Sub north into Canada passed to succesors Montreal, Maine and Atlantic and then Central Maine and Quebec until remarkably returning to the CP fold in 2020 when they purchased the CMQ.
Recently VRS and CP have been pooling power, with one unit from each running thru between White River Junction, VT and Farnham, QC on an up and back every other day schedule. This harkens back to the B&M pool power days so with a bit of imagination one can pretend this is train 904 headed down from Newport to hand off to the B&M.
Barnet, Vermont
Friday August 11, 2023
Red Engines And Green Grass
Just another wider frame of this scene cause it's just so cool despite the sad light...or lack thereof.
While I lucked out with sun in most spots of the chase this was a particular disappointment since it was such a cool scene that would have been stunning in full sun. CPKC GP20C-ECO 2280 and VTR GP38-2 209 lead train NPWJ south past Morrison's Custom Feeds mill at about MP L53.2. The track here reminds me of those old photos of the Milwaukee Road branchlines in the Dakotas back in the 1970s that had to be mowed. They did not stop to switch here at this long time steady customer and kept on rolling along through the grass that has grown rampantly due to leakage from hoppers when trains stop here to work.
The Canadian Pacific Railway had been operating in the state of Vermont for 115 years when they finally retrenched in 1996 and sold the Newport and Lyndonville Subs to Iron Roads Railways which created the new Northern Vermont Railway which took over on September 28th of that year. The Iron Roads system was bankrupt within a half dozen years and the NV ceased to exist with the Lyndonville Sub and the former Boston and Maine Conn River Mainline between Newport and White River Junction being purchased by the State of Vermont and contracted to Vermont Rail System's Washington County Railroad Subsidiary. The WACR is now at the two decade mark operating the 103 mile line while the Newport Sub north into Canada passed to succesors Montreal, Maine and Atlantic and then Central Maine and Quebec until remarkably returning to the CP fold in 2020 when they purchased the CMQ.
Recently VRS and CP have been pooling power, with one unit from each running thru between White River Junction, VT and Farnham, QC on an up and back every other day schedule. This harkens back to the B&M pool power days so with a bit of imagination one can pretend this is train 904 headed down from Newport to hand off to the B&M.
Barnet, Vermont
Friday August 11, 2023