A Vermont Rail System extra moves 2 former Iowa Pacific E8's headed for storage on the Batten Kill RR. The engines are now owned by creditors and are for sale. They are former PRR units that were ... (more)

Vermont Rail System is undertaking the rebirth of the old Montpelier & Wells River Railroad right-of-way after nearly 75 years of abandonment. Having seen the last revenue train in 1956, the line... (more)

Vermont Rail System is undertaking the rebirth of the old Montpelier & Wells River Railroad right-of-way after nearly 75 years of abandonment. Having seen the last revenue train in 1956, the line... (more)

VTR 431 (ex-FEC SD70M-2) leads train 263 around the curve at Okemo Mountain in Ludlow, VT.

Vermont Rail System train VTR HJRD-20 is enroute from Hoosick Jct., NY to Rutland, VT, with six State of Vermont-leased GP38-2s. Led by VTR GP40-2L 310 and SD70M-2 432, the GMTX 2687, 2612, 2601,... (more)

Southbound CP train near North Clarendon

It's late October and most of the trees in this part of the Connecticut Valley have lost their leaves as Boston & Maine train CPSP (Newport, VT, to Springfield, MA runthrough) makes its way south ... (more)

MEC 5946 and 4 other units are about to crest the summit of the Green Mountains on train 16R. This train was rerouted from Hoosick Junction to rutland via north bennington and then the Green Mount... (more)

CN 2430, an increasingly rare GE C40-8M, leads Montreal-Saint Albans manifest train M32421, pictured just 4 miles away from its destination.

Pan Am Railways train 11R (E. Deerfield, MA-Mechanicville, NY) is seen taking the scenic route through Vermont due to a partial collapse of the Hoosac Tunnel in Florida, MA. VTR 307 (ex-SSW GP40-2... (more)

Norfolk Southern 27W rolls over the Cuttingsville Trestle. Norfolk Southern and Pan Am have been detouring over the Vermont Railway due to a collapse at the Hoosac Tunnel

Having cleared the 10mph speed restriction at West River, the engineer of train 16R has all 4 B40-8s roaring, as they scoot across the frozen Connecticut River in the causeways just south of Bratt... (more)

A detour 11R with five matched B40-8s coasts alongside Sunderland Road as the sun dips ever lower towards dusk on a cold Sunday afternoon. The freight has been recently recrewed at Manchester for ... (more)

As the detours approach their sunset days on the Vermont Railroad, a gaggle of New York plate weekend fans pace a northbound 16R freight alongside Dunham Road as engineer Hal T Raven watched the s... (more)

A quartet of Norfolk Southern GP38-2s, 5104, 5666, 5667, and 5609, lead the detouring NS 29E-21 through North Putney, VT on the New England Central RR’s Palmer Subdivision. The train is enroute... (more)