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 Pan Am 11r detour over the VRS enters an S curve along the Otter River in Wallingford, VT as it heads south to Hoosick Jct., NY. At Hoosick Jct the train will be handed back off to Pan Am where... (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.

The... (more)

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 Southern train 11R is detouring over the Vermont Rail System to bypass the closed Hoosac tunnel. Seen here at Mt Holly, VT the train traverses the GMRC enroute to Rutland where it will then... (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)

Detoured train Pan Am train 16R snakes its way through Cavendish Gulf deep in the Green Moutnains of Vermont with a hodgepodge of Vermont Railway and Pan Am power with VTR GP38-3 207b leading the ... (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)

As a result of the partial collapse of the Hoosac Tunnel, Pan Am manifest trains have been running a circuitous route from Hoosick Jct, NY to Bellows Falls over the Vermont Rail System. Here we se... (more)

Since a recent collapse has closed the Hoosac Tunnel for an indefinite amount of time, Pan Am and Pan Am Southern are detouring their manifest trains over Vermont Rail Systems trackage. On Februar... (more)

Pan Am 11R leaves the city of Rutland behind as it approaches Mill River Lumber in North Clarendon, VT where a small army of railfans waits to photograph it at this "must shoot" location... (more)

Pan Am detour train 16R-16 is rolling along the Williams River and past the 2012 rebuilt Bartonsville covered bridge on Feb. 16, with MEC B40-8s 5946, 5936, 5930, 5943, VTR GP40-2 303 and GP40-2L ... (more)

Pan Am detour train 16R-19 is using the Vermont Rail System detour route on February 19, as MEC B40-8s 5946, 5936, 5930, and 5976 lead VTR 310 and 71 cars over the GMRC Bellows Falls Subdivision. ... (more)