Winter Rails-Part 2

Snowy railroad scenes in Massachusetts and Vermont 

by

Tom Hildreth


CSX 7376 brings a westbound upgrade at Bancroft, MA on 12 December 2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GMRC freight RX-1,in tow behind Alco RS-1s 400 and 405, approaches
the 1st Avenue crossing at Chester, Vermont on 16 February 1984

 

 

 

Bound for Hoosic Jct., NY., southbound SW-1500 and CO-OP
Hopper train pass through Arlington, Vermont on 30 January 1990

 

 

 

 

The misty mid-day of 4 January 1984 obscures
the passage of a B&M southbound at Hartland, Vermont

 

Amtrak Southbound Train #55, "Vermonter"
passes over the Ottauquechee River at N. Hartland, Vermont

 

 

 

Headed for N. Bennington, VTR 202 travels south along
US Rt. 7 at Mt. Tabor, Vermont on 18 February 1991.

 

 

 

 

 

 

GMRC freight westbound, as seen from the Geen Mountain Turnpike
near McDermott's at Rockingham, Vermont in February 2008

 

 

Northbound CV freight waits in the Brattleboro Yard in the early 1990s.

 

Canadian National North America freight #323 northbound along icy
Connecticut River at N. Hartland, Vermont on 31 December 1993

 

 

 

 

Westbound GMRC plow works through deep snow
at Smithville (Ludlow) Vermont on 23 January 1987

 

 

 

 

Close alongside MA Rt. 20, CSX westound freight
climbs the grade out of Huntington, MA on 3 March 2005

 

 

 

 

 

Eastbound GMRC freight is seen passing the much-beloved
Bartonsville Bridge at Rockingham, Vermont in March 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ALCO motive power was nearly gone by the time
this photo of a GMRC westbound was taken in the early 1990s

 

END Part 2

 

 

 

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