New Middlebury, VT Tunnel is OPEN!

Nice! Beautiful day in Vermont!

Great. Now I can take a train to get to Smugglers Notch.

Middlebury looks like a beautiful place to live. I hope the old railroad station is being preserved. It is a gem.

This is the kind of infrastructure project that the United States should be doing. When will the Amtrak Hudson River tunnel (NJ to NY) ever get built?

I looked for evidence of drainage in the tunnel and the cuts on either side. I'm sure it was done but I couldn't see it on the video. Otherwise a good example of modern construction on a worthwhile project.

MELGAR

nice

Looks like they still need to finish pouring a lot of concrete!

What is the history of this tunnel?  Does it replace an old tunnel or is this a new alignment?  NH Joe

Is the slow speed for ceremony or is there a speed limit in tunnels or that one.

Cool video

all I know is downtown has been shuttered for 10 weeks while construction under the center of town was going on.

News report

Snow removal is going to be expensive!

Gunny

The project was all about getting double-stack clearance.  The old Rutland trains station is an automparts store.  There is a new station just north near the yard.  

Jon  

Reminds me of the Alameda Corridor out here in Los Angeles. It's a three-track trench that runs from Redondo Junction downtown down to Carson (just North of the accesses to the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Before that, there was so much surface traffic that it backed up street traffic in several cities. The BNSF surface route was sold off for light rail as it ran right by the Los Angeles International Airport; the SP (now UP) surface routes are still in use for local customers, but the traffic is much lower so the cities aren't screaming about all the trains.