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

Looking north from the Mill Street crossing we see the southbound Pan Am 16R detour train passing through the 278 ft long tunnel under the center of the village of Bellows Falls.

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The city of Rutland is in the distance behind Pan Am Railway's detour train 11R as it leaves the Rutland yard limits on the B&R sub. Pan Am has been detouring their trains over the Vermont Rail Sy... (more)

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)

Detour Days in the Green Mountain State!

Three B40-8s and a GP40 are in charge of an 85 car detouring train 16R northbound on Vermont Railway's B&R Sub through the bucolic Otte... (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)

Pan Am 11R leaves the city of Rutland behind as it approaches Mill River Lumber in North Clarendon, VT where a small army of railfans waits to photograph it at this "must shoot" location... (more)

Pan Am detour train 16R-16 is rolling along the Williams River and past the 2012 rebuilt Bartonsville covered bridge on Feb. 16, with MEC B40-8s 5946, 5936, 5930, 5943, VTR GP40-2 303 and GP40-2L ... (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)

Pan Am railway's detour train 11R passes through East Dorset, VT with a six locomotive consist of two Vermont Railway EMD's and four Pan Am GE's. Pan am has been detouring their trains over the Ve... (more)

Newly painted MEC 5967 shines in the afternoon sun as it leads Pan Am railway's detour train 11R at Richville Road in Manchester, VT. Pan am has been detouring their trains over the Vermont Rail S... (more)

Detoured Pan Am Southern trains are continuing to run over Vermont Rail System due to the recent collapse and structural issues with the Hoosac Tunnel. Here, Train 11R heads south on the VTR B&R ... (more)

Early this month, a series of collapses at the Hoosac Tunnel caused Pan Am Railways to search for a route their trains could take. Vermont Railways was selected to handle their manifest trains ... (more)

Norfolk Southern no. 3556 leads a detouring freight across the Soo Line bridge over the Mississippi River leaving Savanna, IL and entering Sabula, IA. The train was detouring due to flooding on th... (more)