RUTLAND RAILS BEYOND THE by Philip R. Jordan
The Rutland Railway shut down in 1961, ending an era in New England railroading. Three years later the railroad was revived by the state of Vermont and began operation as two different companies. Author Philip R. Jordan looks at the Rutland’s successors — the Vermont Railway and Green Mountain Railroad — with a tour of the lines between Burlington, Vermont, and North Walpole, New Hampshire.
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ONE OF THE BENEFITS OF WORKING in this field is the opportunity for travel, and this native New Yorker jumped at the chance to return to sunny California to attend the 2012 edition of the annual Winterail Rail- road Photography Exposition. The show is produced by Vic Neves and Cheryl Meeker, and is celebrating its 34th year as a popular venue for quality railroad photography. The show draws hundreds from not only Califor- nia, but many parts of the West as well. Due to time constraints after wrapping up
our deadline for R&R, I flew in on Thursday and met up with editor Steve Barry and his brother Bruce. After touching down at SFO, we hit up the In ’N’ Out Burger in Millbrae. After scarfing down our double-doubles with cheese, we headed for downtown San Fran- cisco and photographed the vintage PCC fleet along The Embarcadero. If you’re visit- ing for the first time, and want to find your “favorite car,” the volunteers at Market Street Railway make it easy. We had their web site
www.streetcar.org pulled up on my iPad, where they have an interactive map that showed the real-time GPS position of every car out on the line. We were after the Pacific Electric car, and timed out visit ac- cordingly thanks to the information provid- ed by the web site. Neat! Then we headed up into the mountains
and waited for the evening Altamont Com- muter Express (ACE) trains to roll over sto- ried Altamont Pass. Only the setting sun limited our opportunities, as we kept chas- ing shadows further and further east through the pass. After a long day of travel- ing for all of us, we checked in to our hotel in Stockton and called it a night. Friday morning, we took advantage of the
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sunny weather (much better than last year’s visit), and explored the area around Stock- ton. We started off with a few Amtrak corri- dor trains at the old Santa Fe depot in Stockton, then we went off in search of short line action. We were rewarded with trains on both the Central California Traction and the Stockton Terminal & Eastern. Friday afternoon found us at the Scottish
Rite Temple getting set up for the RAILFAN& RAILROAD Pizza Party and Slide Show. We have been hosting this event for a number of years (along with the National Railway His- torical Society) as a “warm up” for Winterail with great success. We had a great line-up of presenters showing a wide range of subjects, in both traditional slide format and digital. Paul Jansson started with a look back at Santa Fe’s Pasadena Line. Next up, Drew Jacksich shared his views of late-era Southern Pacif- ic in the 1980s and 1990s. We took a look at 4449’s service on the American Freedom Train, through the lens of Mike Pechner. Steve Crise shared a wonderful before-and- after tour of the Pacific Electric, related to his recent book release through Arcadia. Following that, we trekked along with Chris Guenzler through a year’s worth of railfan- ning adventures. We looked back at the short-lived Canadian Pacific freight service to New York City in a short I presented called “It’s Over Now.” Right after my show, Steve Barry presented some classic Jim Boyd material that was discovered after everything else had been packed up, titled appropriately, “The Box Under the Table.” Mike Roqué presented “People, Places and Trains,” covering his explorations around the region since moving to California from
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