Vermont Rails
Vermont Rail System's legendary septuagenarian diesel number 405 performs a photo runby with a three car Trains magazine charter special at the Jersey Girls Dairy at the Thompson Road crosding near MP B16.5 of Vermont Railway's Bellows Falls Subdivision (the ex Green Mountain Railroad née Rutland mainline).
This line traces its history back to 1849 when the Rutland Railroad's mainline from the Connecticut River town to Burlington opened by way of its namesake community. The venerable Alco RS-1 rolled out of the Schenectady plant in November 1951 as one of a half dozen of the model and served the erstwhile Class 1 until it shut down for good in 1961. While her siblings were scattered to the wind she never left her home state being picked up by Nelson Blount (founder of Steamtown) and then staying with the Green Mountain Railroad in freight service even after Steamtown left in 1983. She has remained in service on her home rails for 73 years and still occasionally is called up to freight duty, though now largely enjoys an easier life on excursion and passenger duty such as this.
Chester, Vermont
Saturday September 28, 2024
Vermont Rails
Vermont Rail System's legendary septuagenarian diesel number 405 performs a photo runby with a three car Trains magazine charter special at the Jersey Girls Dairy at the Thompson Road crosding near MP B16.5 of Vermont Railway's Bellows Falls Subdivision (the ex Green Mountain Railroad née Rutland mainline).
This line traces its history back to 1849 when the Rutland Railroad's mainline from the Connecticut River town to Burlington opened by way of its namesake community. The venerable Alco RS-1 rolled out of the Schenectady plant in November 1951 as one of a half dozen of the model and served the erstwhile Class 1 until it shut down for good in 1961. While her siblings were scattered to the wind she never left her home state being picked up by Nelson Blount (founder of Steamtown) and then staying with the Green Mountain Railroad in freight service even after Steamtown left in 1983. She has remained in service on her home rails for 73 years and still occasionally is called up to freight duty, though now largely enjoys an easier life on excursion and passenger duty such as this.
Chester, Vermont
Saturday September 28, 2024