Good Wednesday to you! Time to begin another thrilling week of train chasing and chasing memories.
The Olympics start tomorrow in Sochi, Russia. I have no idea how it is being promoted, but for the 2010 winter Olympics in British Columbia, Canadian Pacific Railway dressed up this container on a flatcar to promote the games across Canada. For RailFest in Scranton that year, this car was on display. Here we see it turning on the turntable.
Now time for some more recent memories.
Late January, in Bellows Falls, Vermont. There are a lot of tracks squeezed into this narrow gap along the Connecticut River. Plus there used to be a lot more.
My friend and I were lucky to catch the Vermont Railway train crossing a bridge to pull past the Amtrak station in Bellows Falls.
Two GP38-3s brace a lease unit as the trio haul a very long freight across this diamond.
Clearing a switch at the road crossing, the train then shoves past the dam and heads up river to just outside the old Steamtown location in Riverside. The units would then reposition to the other end of the train to head north toward Rutland.
Didn't have to wait very long before the next train arrived. This time it was New England Central heading straight south. Amtrak station on the right of the train.
This unit marked for the Connecticut Southern and the Red white & blue unit for Rail America. This railroad is now part of the Genessee & Wyoming company.
More to come in the next posts. Get out some of your best or possible chance encounters with railroading where you are. Enjoy your railroading week!
