The first of three daylight trains on the VRS GMRC Bellows Falls Subdivision, the detouring ST (PAS) RJED and operating as VRS detour 1 or 16R-A, is seen passing the Bartonsville Covered Bridge wi... (more)

A new set of power was formed for the Pan Am detour trains over Vermont Rail System on March 17, when four NS GP38-2s joined the mix with the Pan Am and VRS power to handle these moves. On March ... (more)

With the continued repair work on the Pan Am Southern Hoosac Tunnel in western Massachusetts, NS has contracted Canadian Pacific, Vermont Rail System, and New England Central, to detour autoracks ... (more)

Vermont Railway Rutland to Hoosick Jct (RDHJ) train passes through N Clarendon on its journey south, leaving the city of Rutland in the distance.

Vermont Railway Rutland to Hoosick Jct (RDHJ) train passes through N Clarendon as it begins its journey south with the VTR 202 and VTR 432 making a colorful lashup on a bright winter morning.

In comparison to a previous shot of the Pan Am Southern 11R detour train passing the Bartonsville, VT covered bridge, here is the NS 28W (turned into 29E at Schenectady) during steady rain on Marc... (more)

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)

In another historic move for the Vermont Rail System, the first Norfolk Southern loaded autorack train detoured via Canadian Pacific from Schenectady, NY to Whitehall, NY (as CP train 961), then w... (more)

Hanging the drone in the tree, not quite literally, but framing the GMRC 263 upgrade at East Wallingford, VT, with GMTX 2663, VTR 206, GMTX 2684, and VTR 432!

Vermont Railway GP40-2L leads a hodgepodge of VTR and Pan Am locomotives downgrade having just crested the summit of the Green Mountains

Water Towers, Old Semaphores, and Geeps: PAS 11R thunders past the station in Arlington,VT with the old semaphore signal still standing tall at the station's platform. 2/23/20

Vermont Railway GP38-3 207 leads a hodgepodge of Pan Am locomotives through the rural farmland of Chester, VT with detoured train 16R bound for East Deerfield, MA

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)

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)

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)