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12/25/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Nicholas Dixon
Dates:9/29/2024 - 9/29/2024
Album Info:In honor of VRS's 60th anniversary, Trains Magazine hosted a 2-day charter that used Green Mountain Railroad RS-1 #405, put back in it's original Rutland lettering, to run from Rutland to Bellows Falls on Saturday and Rutland to Burlington on Sunday. The Sunday trip hit a bit of a snag when it was realized that the 25mph limit on the #405, plus a 2 hour wait at Middlebury for Amtrak to pass by, would strain the limits of the crew's service hours and would force the elimination of photo runbys. Instead, this ex-SSW GP40-2 was added to the south end, allowing the #405 to lead north, and then we could do 59mph south and still get photo stops.
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VTR 307
Title:  VTR 307
Description:  Our power for the southbound leg was this GP40-2 of obvious ex-SP/SSW heritage, with remnants of the old SP light package visible where they were blocked off. This was taken while sitting in the hole at Middlebury to wait for the Ethan Allen Express to go by.
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 8:35:15 AM
Location:  Middlebury, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
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Locomotives:  VTR 307(GP40-2)
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VTR 307
Title:  VTR 307
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 8:37:16 AM
Location:  Middlebury, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VTR 307(GP40-2)
Views:  14   Comments: 0
VTR 307
Title:  VTR 307
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 8:38:18 AM
Location:  Middlebury, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
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Locomotives:  VTR 307(GP40-2)
Views:  14   Comments: 0
VTR 307
Title:  VTR 307
Description:  The #405 waits on the northbound end to take us to Burlington. Originally the trip called for #405 to lead both ways, but the 25mph restriction the engine, along with the required 2 hour wait at Middlebury made it unfeasible.
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 8:44:13 AM
Location:  Middlebury, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VTR 307(GP40-2) GMRC 405(RS1)
Views:  20   Comments: 0
GMRC 405
Title:  GMRC 405
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 8:52:31 AM
Location:  Middlebury, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GMRC 405(RS1)
Views:  23   Comments: 0
GMRC 405
Title:  GMRC 405
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 9:02:54 AM
Location:  Middlebury, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GMRC 405(RS1)
Views:  22   Comments: 0
VTR 307
Title:  VTR 307
Description:  Getting ready for the Amtrak meet.
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 9:25:22 AM
Location:  Middlebury, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VTR 307(GP40-2) GMRC 405(RS1)
Views:  15   Comments: 0
VTR 307
Title:  VTR 307
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 9:26:56 AM
Location:  Middlebury, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
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Locomotives:  VTR 307(GP40-2) AMTK 711(P32AC-DM) GMRC 405(RS1)
Views:  21   Comments: 0
VTR 206
Title:  VTR 206
Description:  Entering the yard at Burlington, with a plethora of Vermont Rail System power scattered around
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 9:40:56 AM
Location:  Burlington, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
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Locomotives:  VTR 206(GP38-3) CLP 802(GP16) GMRC 804(GP9)
Views:  52   Comments: 0
GMRC 405
Title:  GMRC 405
Description:  The Rutland returns to Burlington, as the #405 waits at the platform in Burlington.
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 9:46:31 AM
Location:  Burlington, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GMRC 405(RS1)
Views:  14   Comments: 0
GMRC 405
Title:  GMRC 405
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 9:47:14 AM
Location:  Burlington, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GMRC 405(RS1)
Views:  15   Comments: 0
CLP 204
Title:  CLP 204
Description:  Passing by another array of VRS power as we head south out of Burlington
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 9:57:38 AM
Location:  Burlington, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
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Locomotives:  VTR 802(GP16) VTR 313(GP40FH-2)
Views:  37   Comments: 0
VTR 313
Title:  VTR 313
Description:  The #313 sits on the northbound end of the dinner train consist.
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 10:00:38 AM
Location:  Burlington, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
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Locomotives:  VTR 313(GP40FH-2)
Views:  25   Comments: 0
VTR 313
Title:  VTR 313
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 10:08:58 AM
Location:  Burlington, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
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Locomotives:  VTR 313(GP40FH-2)
Views:  54   Comments: 0
GMRC 804
Title:  GMRC 804
Description:  Hard to believe this was once an N&W GP9. This battered old Green Mountain GP9r was on the southbound end of the dinner train consist.
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 10:11:03 AM
Location:  Burlington, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
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Locomotives:  GMRC 804(GP9)
Views:  51   Comments: 0
GMRC 405
Title:  GMRC 405
Description:  Stopped at Middlebury to allow us off
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 10:14:30 AM
Location:  Burlington, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GMRC 405(RS1)
Views:  15   Comments: 0
VTR 307
Title:  VTR 307
Description:  Lining up for a runby aat Middlebury
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 10:16:21 AM
Location:  Middlebury, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VTR 307(GP40-2)
Views:  17   Comments: 0
GMRC 405
Title:  GMRC 405
Description:  Passing by on the other side of the bridge
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 10:24:59 AM
Location:  Middlebury, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GMRC 405(RS1)
Views:  13   Comments: 0
VTR 307
Title:  VTR 307
Description:  Posed for static photos
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 10:26:13 AM
Location:  Middlebury, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VTR 307(GP40-2)
Views:  17   Comments: 0
VTR 307
Title:  VTR 307
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 10:26:55 AM
Location:  Middlebury, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VTR 307(GP40-2)
Views:  18   Comments: 0
VTR 307
Title:  VTR 307
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 10:28:36 AM
Location:  Middlebury, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VTR 307(GP40-2)
Views:  14   Comments: 0
VTR 307
Title:  VTR 307
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 10:29:59 AM
Location:  Middlebury, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VTR 307(GP40-2)
Views:  18   Comments: 0
VTR 307
Title:  VTR 307
Description:  Returning to pick us back up
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 10:30:48 AM
Location:  Middlebury, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VTR 307(GP40-2)
Views:  18   Comments: 0
VTR 307
Title:  VTR 307
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 10:31:50 AM
Location:  Middlebury, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VTR 307(GP40-2)
Views:  17   Comments: 0
GMRC 405
Title:  GMRC 405
Description:  Photo runbys parallel to Old Jerusalem Road, north of Leicester
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 10:35:21 AM
Location:  Leicester, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
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Locomotives:  GMRC 405(RS1)
Views:  15   Comments: 0
VTR 307
Title:  VTR 307
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 10:36:16 AM
Location:  Leicester, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VTR 307(GP40-2)
Views:  19   Comments: 0
GMRC 405
Title:  GMRC 405
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 10:38:41 AM
Location:  Leicester, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GMRC 405(RS1)
Views:  19   Comments: 0
GMRC 405
Title:  GMRC 405
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 10:41:25 AM
Location:  Leicester, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GMRC 405(RS1)
Views:  16   Comments: 0
VTR 307
Title:  VTR 307
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 10:42:31 AM
Location:  Leicester, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VTR 307(GP40-2)
Views:  15   Comments: 0
VTR 307
Title:  VTR 307
Description:  Runbys complete at this location, the train returns to pick us up. Not the sign in the foreground, a clearance warning for plow and spreader operators, regarding a bridge behind where I was standing.
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 10:44:23 AM
Location:  Leicester, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VTR 307(GP40-2)
Views:  11   Comments: 0
VTR 307
Title:  VTR 307
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 10:46:38 AM
Location:  Leicester, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VTR 307(GP40-2)
Views:  14   Comments: 0
GMRC 405
Title:  GMRC 405
Description:  Our final stop was at the old Leicester depot, now part of a farm supply company.
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 10:47:58 AM
Location:  Leicester, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GMRC 405(RS1)
Views:  16   Comments: 0
GMRC 405
Title:  GMRC 405
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 10:54:21 AM
Location:  Leicester, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GMRC 405(RS1)
Views:  10   Comments: 0
VTR 307
Title:  VTR 307
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 10:55:46 AM
Location:  Leicester, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VTR 307(GP40-2)
Views:  13   Comments: 0
VTR 307
Title:  VTR 307
Description:  The 307 does a runby at Leicester. This was the last photo stop for us, because the crew was running short on hours.
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 11:00:06 AM
Location:  Leicester, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VTR 307(GP40-2)
Views:  10   Comments: 0
VTR 307
Title:  VTR 307
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 11:02:26 AM
Location:  Leicester, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VTR 307(GP40-2)
Views:  15   Comments: 0
VTR 307
Title:  VTR 307
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/29/2024  Upload Date: 10/7/2024 11:13:17 AM
Location:  Leicester, VT
Author:  Nicholas Dixon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  VTR 307(GP40-2)
Views:  17   Comments: 0


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