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VRS GMRC Train 263-26 at Gaynors Crossing |
| Description: |
With the Northern Taconic Mountains visible in the distance, the Vermont Rail Systems Green Mountain Railroad Train 263-26 slowly climbs the western slope of the Green Mountains at East Clarendon, Vermont. Operating as a combined freight and Maintenance-of-Way train, GMRC Train 263-26 rolls across Gaynors Crossing in East Clarendon with 4 loaded open-top hoppers en route to Okemo for ballast work and 27 loaded limestone slurry cars for Pan Am Railways at Bellows Falls, Vermont in tow behind Vermont Railway EMD SD70M-2 431 and GATX Corporation EMD GP38-2 2215. |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/2017 Upload Date: 8/23/2017 11:37:18 PM |
| Location: |
East Clarendon, VT |
| Author: |
Joshua Harkness |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
VTR 431(SD70M-2) GMTX 2215(GP38-2) |
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826 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
VRS GMRC Train 263-26 High Above the Mill River |
| Description: |
Vermont Railway EMD SD70M-2 431 and GATX Corporation EMD GP38-2 2215 pull hard on the head-end of VRS Green Mountain Railroad Train 263-26, as the loaded thirty-one car train trundles across Bridge 47, the locally famous “Cuttingsville High Bridge” over the Mill River in Cuttingsville, Vermont. The four open-top hoppers at the head-end of the consist are carrying ballast to be used as part of a track repair project in Okemo. |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/2017 Upload Date: 8/23/2017 11:38:12 PM |
| Location: |
Cuttingsville, VT |
| Author: |
Joshua Harkness |
| Categories: |
Roster,Scenic,Bridge,Steam |
| Locomotives: |
VTR 431(SD70M-2) GMTX 2215(GP38-2) |
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825 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
VRS GMRC Train 263-26 at Mount Holly |
| Description: |
Rolling through peat bogs and dense spruce, fir and tamarack forests, the Vermont Rail Systems Rutland to Bellows Falls job, Green Mountain Railroad Train 263, approaches the summit of the Green Mountain Gateway in Mount Holly, Vermont, with Vermont Railway EMD SD70M-2 leading and GATX EMD GP38-2 trailing on the point of the loaded thirty-one car consist. Within half an hour, the crew of Train 263-26 would get to work unloading the four loaded ballast hoppers as part of a track repair project in Okemo. |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/2017 Upload Date: 8/23/2017 11:39:30 PM |
| Location: |
Mount Holly, VT |
| Author: |
Joshua Harkness |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
VTR 431(SD70M-2) GMTX 2215(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
741 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
VRS GMRC Train 263-26 at Chester Depot |
| Description: |
Rolling through the quaint village of Chester Depot, Green Mountain Railroad Train 263-26, led by Vermont Railway EMD SD70M-2 431 and GATX EMD GP38-2 2215, passes the former Rutland Railroad Station, which once contained the offices of the Green Mountain Railroad Corporation when they were an independent company. Now the Green Mountain Railroad Corp. is operated by the Vermont Rail System as a subsidiary and its freight operations are based out of Rutland. The first four cars in the consist, open-top ballast hoppers, were emptied along the mainline in Okemo as part of a project to upgrade the track condition of the Green Mountain Gateway. The remaining twenty-seven cars are heading to Riverside Yard to be handed off to Pan Am Railways for shipment to some of the paper mills near Portland, Maine. |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/2017 Upload Date: 8/23/2017 11:40:19 PM |
| Location: |
Chester, VT |
| Author: |
Joshua Harkness |
| Categories: |
Roster,Station |
| Locomotives: |
VTR 431(SD70M-2) GMTX 2215(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
950 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
VRS GMRC Train 263-26 at Bartonsville |
| Description: |
Vermont Railway six-axle and leased GATX Corporation four-axle locomotives, in the form of VTR 431 and GATX 2215, lead the Vermont Rail Systems Green Mountain Railroad Train 263-26 across Lower Bartonsville Road in the village of Bartonsville, Vermont en route to Riverside Yard in Rockingham with twenty-seven loads for Pan Am Railways and four empties to return to Rutland on Train 264-26 later in the evening. The Bartonsville Covered Bridge, spanning the Williams River, was rebuilt in 2012 following the severe flooding from Hurricane Irene the previous year that washed away the original covered bridge built in 1870. |
| Photo Date: |
7/26/2017 Upload Date: 8/23/2017 11:41:04 PM |
| Location: |
Bartonsville, VT |
| Author: |
Joshua Harkness |
| Categories: |
Roster,Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
VTR 431(SD70M-2) GMTX 2215(GP38-2) |
| Views: |
21778 Comments: 10 |
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