Amtrak engine 17 crossing the bridge over the Connecticut River entering Bellows Falls, Vermont . Trailing is 6 coaches and Engine 105 pushing on the rear.

Todays Vermonter with Amtrak engine 102 has just crossing the Connecticut River is now in Bellows, Falls, Vermont. Four cars back and still in New Hampshire is Amtrak 110 on the tail.

On November 6th the Vermont Rail System ran a passenger extra from Bellows Falls to Chester to show appreciation for those involved in rebuilding the line after T.S. Irene. Once in Chester they we... (more)

The GMRC Alco RS-1 405 is heading south on the NECR Palmer Subdivision and crossing home rails - GMRC Bellows Falls Subdivision - at grade with interchange traffic from the NECR to the Green Mount... (more)

The GMRC Alco RS-1 405 is working the Bellows Falls Switcher - symbol DASW - as it backs out of the Bellows Falls tunnel with a cut of cars for Riverside Yard on the GMRC Bellows Falls Subdivision... (more)

With the pristine springtime blue skies reflecting on the newly thawed Connecticut River, Vermont Rail System has pressed GMRC (ex-Rutland) Alco RS-1 405 into freight service to help with a motive... (more)

Vermont Railway GP40-2 308 (ex-B&M 303) is rolling a cut of interchange traffic across the Connecticut River on the New England Central Railroad's Palmer Subdivision to North Walpole, NH.

VRS' first ethanol train in nearly a month has arrived on the New England Central for interchange and is pulling toward the tunnel under the town with VTR GP40-2 307 leads CLP GP38 203, VTR GP38-2... (more)

The morning excursion returns from Chester with a long 8 car train (the reason for the GP9 vs typical RS1) as it rolls along between US Route 5 and the Connecticut River on final approach to Bello... (more)

The first loaded ethanol train that ran over the VRS ran in an 80 car train. This required the VRS to use most of their fleet for this single move. In a pinch, when a unit fails or they become pow... (more)

VTR 308 working as DASW, the Bellows Falls switcher, passes the Waypoint Interpretive Center on the Island in Bellows Falls. DASW has just come back from interchange with the NECR in North Walpole... (more)

Some things never change... and back in 1981, Reading 2124 was looking about as weather worn as she looked just a year ago. Still, a grand locomotive, and captured here by my father on one of his ... (more)

Emerging from the tunnel that burroughs beneath the town of Bellows Falls, VT, VTR GP40 301 is on the New England Central Palmer Sub, exercising trackage rights to grab interchange traffic from No... (more)

The 52-car Sunday extra salt train is backing across the Connecticut River to meet an awaiting NECR set of power, which will take the train north on the New England Central. VRS power is VTR GP40... (more)

The southbound St. Albans, VT - Palmer, MA road freight emerges from the Bellows Falls tunnel with CSOR 8565 leading the way.