Spring of 2020 was an interesting one of the Vermont Rail System. With the partial collapse issue in the Hoosac Tunnel, on Pan Am Railways, NS and Pan Am used the Vermont Railway for detours. While regular freight of 11R/16R and EDRJ/RJED ran over the Vermont Railway B&R Sub and the Bellows Falls sub, the loaded and unloaded autorack trains of 27W/28N ran over the CLP Sub and Bellows Falls Sub.
Here, NS Train 27W with Conductor Thibodeau and Engineer Kelley, passes the lumber facility in Whitehall, NY heading east to Rutland, and eventually Bellows Falls.
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