I seriously need to get the Rutland!! Meanwhile, on the other side of Vermont where NECR and Pan Am Sounthern creep around, I took the attached just before Christmas with an iPhone 14 Pro. I was able to holler back and forth with the engineer. The MEC was running under Pan Am Southern through Brattleboro and on to Bellows Falls where I took the pic and the video. I believe they were switching local and they only had 4 cars. CSX locos can also be spotted more recently.
After watching NECR weekly for several months out my hotel window, it seems they have recently gone from 3 or so trains per week with 70-100 or more cars to daily freights (Mon-Fri) arriving southbound in Brattleboro every morning between 6:30 and 7:30. Most I saw was ~35 or 40 cars under what seems to be new operating rules (PSR???). They head north every night sometime after 7:00.
