Green Mountain Railroad
The Green Mountain Railroad (GMRC) is a local railway company in Vermont and New Hampshire ( USA ), based in Bellows Falls .
It operates the former Rutland route Bellows Falls - Rutland and a short stretch of Bellows Falls to North Walpole in New Hampshire, which was formerly part of the Boston and Maine Railroad . The total route has a length of 84 kilometers. In Bellows Falls there is a transition to the New England Central Railroad and Pan Am Railways , in Rutland to the Vermont Railway and the Clarendon and Pittsford Railroad . The GMRC operates freight services on this route and the Green Mountain Flyer , a tourist train that runs regularly from Bellows Falls to Chester.
The company was founded on April 3, 1964 after the Rutland Railway had ceased operations. She took over operations from April 2, 1965, initially from Bellows Falls to Ludlow, and later over the entire route to Rutland. In 1967 the owner died and the company was taken over by its employees. In 1998, the company associated with the Vermont Railway , adopted its logo and has been part of the Vermont Rail System ever since .
Vehicle inventory
At the beginning of 2006 the company had seven locomotives, three EMD GP40 , two EMD GP9R , one ALCO RS-1 and one ALCO S-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vermont Railways News Archive
- ↑ James W. Kerr: The Official Locomotive Roster & News Edition 2006 . DPA-LTA Enterprises Inc., St. David's, ON 2006, ISBN 0-919295-43-6 .
literature
- Robert C. Jones: Vermont Rail System. A Railroad Renaissance. Evergreen Press, Burlington, VT 2006, ISBN 0966726456
- Edward A. Lewis: American Shortline Railway Guide 5th Ed. Kalmbach Publishing Co., Waukesha, WI 1996, ISBN 0-89024-290-9