VTR 307 is seen on the south end of a Trains Magazine Photo Special featuring GMRC 405, which is seen on the north end of the train. The special waited here for 2 hours for an on-time Amtrak train... (more)

Amtrak's Ethan Allen Express arrives Middlebury, VT on its southbound journey to New York. The train is meeting GMRC 405 with a Trains Magazine photo special. Due to some poor planning, the specia... (more)

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 ... (more)

A Vermont Rail System passenger extra rolls south through the Middlebury tunnel with VRS's Newest addition to the passenger fleet, VTR 313, in the lead.

It's a rainy October day in Middlebury, Vermont as the AAPRCO special heads south down the VTR Northern Subdivision after an overnight stay in Burlington. A VTR GP38-3 leads two Amtrak P42's as th... (more)

BDRD passes by the Otter Creek in Middlebury in the late afternoon

Vermont Rail Systems Burlington to Rutland train BDRD is seen emerging from the tunnel at Middlebury. Freshly painted 206 is leading the train. This locomotive was built as a straight GP38 for the... (more)

A perfectly-timed sucker hole of sunshine illuminates VTR Train BDRD as it heads south through downtown Middlebury, Vermont with two, recently-repainted GP38-2s for power: VTR 209 and VTR 201.

Two freshly painted VTR GP38s, 209 and 201, lead BDRD through Middlebury

VTR 209 makes one of its first revenue runs in corporate colors on the "Champlain Valley Dinner Train" on 9/24/2022, seen here at Middlebury, VT

Freshly rebranded and repainted Vermont railway GP38–2 209 leads the evening dinner train out of the tunnel at Middlebury, Vermont, on September 17, 2022.

The last CLP unit on the VRS roster leading BDRD through Middlebury on a nice afternoon.

BDRD passing through Middlebury with 3 blues leading the way

Back to Burlington. On Friday, July 29, 2022, the first Amtrak Ethan Allen Express (Train 290) departed from Burlington, Vermont for New York Penn Station in cooperation with the Vermont Ag... (more)

Amtrak Ethan Allen crew Qualification Extra 869 rolls southbound through Middlebury with Amtrak 406 in the lead. Amtrak 406 is an Ex EMD F40PH that has been turned into a "Cabbage" NPCU... (more)