with trains operating in nearly every direction. With the return to Rutland of the overnight Whitehall, N.Y., turn job with inbound freight off the Canadian Pacific (Delaware & Hudson), the yard at Rutland in the early morning hours can often be a busy place, bustling with activity in all directions. Monday through Friday the Bennington-Rutland (“B&R”) turn that has been previously staged near the enginehouse next to the Rutland Fairgrounds will head south for North Bennington around 9:00 a.m. The Green Mountain job is a dedicated Monday-Wednesday-Friday turn that leaves eastbound and travels to the
Riverside Yard outside Bellows Falls. As traffic warrants, other days may see traffic, and trains often meet the switcher assigned to the New England Central interchange at Bellows Falls. This switcher services the yard and small ex-B&M facility across the Connecticut River in Walpole, N.H. The Burlington turn will have earlier gathered the gas train cars off the returning Whitehall job and will head north very early in the morning for at least Middlebury, where at times consists are swapped with opposing trains; the returning trains converge on Rutland late in the afternoon or early
evening. The Whitehall job is made up, and the process repeats itself once again. While many trains will have either red
VTR or green GMRC units in the consist, a recent influx of leaser units means pure consists of home road power are no longer guaranteed. The EMD GP38 units are numbered in the 200 series, while GP40s are numbered in the 300 series. One of the old soldiers among the fleet is the venerable Alco RS1 No. 405 (ex-Rutland), which comes out for special events, including this convention. Many great photo locations on the
VRS are in or near Rutland and include the Amtrak station downtown, the split
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