263 Across Cuttingsville
On a gray but colorful fall morning, Vermont Railway train 263 is crossing the famed Cuttingsville Trestle over the Mill River and VT Route 103 at about MP 40.7 on the modern day Vermont Rail System's Green Mountain Railroad Bellows Falls Subdivision, the former Rutland Railroad mainline. The 412 ft. long double-intersection Warren deck truss bridge was built in 1895 by Rochester Bridge and Iron Works.
Leading the way, with an SD70 and two blue geeps trailing, is VTR 208 a GP38-2 purchased from LLPX. The unit was originally blt. in Aug. 1972 as Penn Central 8028 then passed to Conrail until being picked up by Union Pacific at the end of its 15 year lease where it spend a half dozen years before ending up in EMD's lease fleet for a time.
Wallingford, Vermont
Sunday September 29, 2024
263 Across Cuttingsville
On a gray but colorful fall morning, Vermont Railway train 263 is crossing the famed Cuttingsville Trestle over the Mill River and VT Route 103 at about MP 40.7 on the modern day Vermont Rail System's Green Mountain Railroad Bellows Falls Subdivision, the former Rutland Railroad mainline. The 412 ft. long double-intersection Warren deck truss bridge was built in 1895 by Rochester Bridge and Iron Works.
Leading the way, with an SD70 and two blue geeps trailing, is VTR 208 a GP38-2 purchased from LLPX. The unit was originally blt. in Aug. 1972 as Penn Central 8028 then passed to Conrail until being picked up by Union Pacific at the end of its 15 year lease where it spend a half dozen years before ending up in EMD's lease fleet for a time.
Wallingford, Vermont
Sunday September 29, 2024