What is lost in aesthetics is gained in interest as the March 1, PAS 11R-01 detour train rolls past the Bartonsville, VT covered bridge with a quintet of PAS/MEC B40-8s and the first double stack ... (more)

Detoured Pan Am Southern trains are continuing to run over Vermont Rail System due to the recent collapse and structural issues with the Hoosac Tunnel. Here, Train 11R heads south on the VTR B&R ... (more)

On a sunny, crisp Sunday afternoon, a heavy detour 11R rolls south out of Rutland for Hoosick Junction after its power shuffle. I made a spontaneous decision to drive up from New York last minute ... (more)

My first shot of the day as the Sunday Pan Am detour train begins its southeastern trek out of Rutland for Hoosick Junction. Most of the chasers were locked on a inaugural running of an NS 27W det... (more)

Pan Am Railways 5967 rolls into Dorset pulling the re-routed 11R on Vermont Rails, specific location is Gulf Brook.

Pan Am train 11R detours over the Vermont Railway climbing the grade along Sunderland Road en route to Hoosick Jct. Pan Am has been detouring this train over the Vermont Rail System to avoid the c... (more)

Pan Am detour train 16R-26 is eastbound on the VRS Green Mountain Railroad Bellows Falls Subdivision with MEC B40-8 5967 leading GP40 352, B40-8 5966 and B40-8 5973 as it breaks the midnight silen... (more)

A frozen aggacultural setting makes for a great scene as a detoured Pan Am 16R rolls into East Northfield. A sting of luck has happened with these detours keeping those rolling dumpster fire CSX p... (more)

"Pan Am High & Wide at CPR-1" A Pan Am Railways high and wide train sits just north of CPR-1 in Springfield, Massachusetts on the Connecticut River Line. The train is waiting for a weekend... (more)

Detoured train Pan Am train 16R passes a Boston & Maine searchlight signal as it makes its way south on the New England Central Railroad at Westminster, VT

Looking north from the Mill Street crossing we see the southbound Pan Am 16R detour train passing through the 278 ft long tunnel under the center of the village of Bellows Falls.

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The city of Rutland is in the distance behind Pan Am Railway's detour train 11R as it leaves the Rutland yard limits on the B&R sub. Pan Am has been detouring their trains over the Vermont Rail Sy... (more)

Pan Am detour train 11R-24 is pulling toward Riverside Yard in Rockingham, Vermont, on the GMRC Bellows Falls Subdivision. The train is on the causeway splitting the Connecticut River (NH) and We... (more)

Detour Days in the Green Mountain State!

Three B40-8s and a GP40 are in charge of an 85 car detouring train 16R northbound on Vermont Railway's B&R Sub through the bucolic Otte... (more)

Detoured train 16R with B40-8 5967 leading 3 other B40-8s blasts across the stone arch bridge over the Fall River in Bernardston, MA.