Pan Am Southern autorack train 27W is seen headed East through Erving, MA. The NS Geeps were unusual to see on this trackage in the past, but due to line restrictions on the detour routes, these u... (more)

Pan Am Southern autorack train 27W is seen headed East through Erving, MA. The NS Geeps were unusual to see on this trackage in the past, but due to line restrictions on the detour routes, these u... (more)

Train NH-2 is seen alongside deKoven Drive in Middletown. The crew has already changed ends to the B39-8, which will shove back empty gondolas across the Connecticut River into Portland, at RED Te... (more)

In another historic move for the Vermont Rail System, the first Norfolk Southern loaded autorack train detoured via Canadian Pacific from Schenectady, NY to Whitehall, NY (as CP train 961), then w... (more)

Vermont Railway GP40-2L leads a hodgepodge of VTR and Pan Am locomotives downgrade having just crested the summit of the Green Mountains

Pan Am detour train 16R-26 is eastbound on the VRS Green Mountain Railroad Bellows Falls Subdivision with MEC B40-8 5967 leading GP40 352, B40-8 5966 and B40-8 5973 as it breaks the midnight silen... (more)

God Created All Men, But Samuel Colt Made All Men Equal

I'm sure some of you who are students of more than just railroad history have heard that old quote. So why share it her... (more)

Detoured train Pan Am train 16R passes a Boston & Maine searchlight signal as it makes its way south on the New England Central Railroad at Westminster, VT

Pan Am detour train 11R-24 is pulling toward Riverside Yard in Rockingham, Vermont, on the GMRC Bellows Falls Subdivision. The train is on the causeway splitting the Connecticut River (NH) and We... (more)

Detoured train Pan Am train 16R snakes its way through Cavendish Gulf deep in the Green Moutnains of Vermont with a hodgepodge of Vermont Railway and Pan Am power with VTR GP38-3 207b leading the ... (more)

Detoured train 16R with B40-8 5967 leading 3 other B40-8s blasts across the stone arch bridge over the Fall River in Bernardston, MA.

As a result of the partial collapse of the Hoosac Tunnel, Pan Am manifest trains have been running a circuitous route from Hoosick Jct, NY to Bellows Falls over the Vermont Rail System. Here we se... (more)

Since a recent collapse has closed the Hoosac Tunnel for an indefinite amount of time, Pan Am and Pan Am Southern are detouring their manifest trains over Vermont Rail Systems trackage. On Februar... (more)

Pan Am detour train 16R-19 is using the Vermont Rail System detour route on February 19, as MEC B40-8s 5946, 5936, 5930, and 5976 lead VTR 310 and 71 cars over the GMRC Bellows Falls Subdivision. ... (more)

Since a recent collapse has closed the Hoosac Tunnel for an indefinite amount of time, Pan Am and Pan Am Southern are detouring their manifest trains over Vermont Rail Systems trackage. On Februar... (more)