Nostalgia & History > Lamoille Valley RR in 1985

"Vermont's Covered Bridge Road", originally the St.Johnsbury and Lake Champlain went through a variety of owners. In 1982, this single car freight departed northbound from St.Johnsbury, Vermont, the southern terminal. Is anything left of this line today?



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Around that timeframe I rode their tourist train from Morrisville to Joe's Pond. I believe the right of way is now a nature trail......

Very interesting.  We don't see many of these on TO.
ALLEN

A mile or two of the line is in use in Swanton by the Central Vermont's successor (New England Central RR) for a woodchip train which serves a power plant in Burlington. The rest has been pulled up.

Michael

Mberry Wrote:
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> A mile or two of the line is in use in Swanton by
> the Central Vermont's successor (New England
> Central RR) for a woodchip train which serves a
> power plant in Burlington. The rest has been
> pulled up.
>
> Michael

The short stub the NECR uses from Fonda Jct to the Swanton woodchip loadout was never StJ&LC track.  It was the north/south Central Vermont route that crossed the border into Canada at St-Armand and continued north to Iberville, Quebec.  The StJ&LC went east/west through Swanton not north/south.

The stub was kept active so that after the closure of the StJ&LC's Swanton covered bridge the two railroads could continue to interchange.

KG



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kgmontreal Wrote:
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> Mberry Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > A mile or two of the line is in use in Swanton
> by
> > the Central Vermont's successor (New England
> > Central RR) for a woodchip train which serves a
> > power plant in Burlington. The rest has been
> > pulled up.
> >
> > Michael
>
> The short stub the NECR uses from Fonda Jct to the
> Swanton woodchip loadout was never StJ&LC track. 
> It was the north/south Central Vermont route that
> crossed the border into Canada at St-Armand and
> continued north to Iberville, Quebec.  The StJ&LC
> went east/west through Swanton not north/south.
>
> The stub was kept active so that after the closure
> of the StJ&LC's Swanton covered bridge the two
> railroads could continue to interchange.
>
> KG

Oops, I stand corrected.