Nostalgia & History > Shortline Sunday Vermont 1970

Spring was coming to Vermont in this April 1970 view of the St Johnsbury & Lamoille County eastbound between their home base in Morrisville and the CP/MEC interchange in St Johnsbury. The pair of Geeps had arrived on the property a couple of years earlier replacing GE 70-tonners.

Ken Goslett

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Nice picture of a relatively obscure short line Ken! Thanks for posting it. The Geeps were ex-NYC. At the time the St. J carried a surprising amount of bridge line traffic between the CN at Swanson and MEC at St. Johnsbury. The Staggers act and continued decline of New England manufacturing ultimately killed that business.

Dave

DavidP Wrote:
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> Nice picture of a relatively obscure short line
> Ken! Thanks for posting it. The Geeps were
> ex-NYC. At the time the St. J carried a
> surprising amount of bridge line traffic between
> the CN at Swanson and MEC at St. Johnsbury. The
> Staggers act and continued decline of New England
> manufacturing ultimately killed that business.
>
> Dave

You're right about the bridge traffic. The St J had some decent sized trains in those days. By the way it's Swanton, not Swanson and at the time of my photo the western interchange was Fonda Jct.

KG

Wonderful photo of one of my favourite shortlines.

Brian N.