[vtcurious]

Hello all....

I grew up in Vermont (now live in Ct) and am now doing research out of curiousity. I'm trying to find out about Vt railroads...specifically, which lines run through St. Albans, and what they carry (currently), and who they are owned by. I know this is a lot to ask, but I thought it was at least worth a shot.

Thanks so much for any info you are available to give.

[vter]

There are a bunch of books out there about Vermont railroads....If you google it you should come up with some! Good luck!

[Psherryred1]

I do know that the once glorious Central Vermont railway (Victorian St. Albans, Vt was built by the RR) was owned by the Canadian National Railway and the Grand Trunk RR but I don't know who owns it now. My mom was a secretary there mainly in a place called Italy Yard ( I presume because it was a long way off from the main site). My neighbor in Swanton (9 miles away) Mary Margaret Cronin was the Highgate (10 miles away from Swanton, toward Canada) station agent and telegrapher which was quite an accomplishment for a woman in 1910! I wish Jim Murphy was still alive. He was a railroad buff who worked for the railway. If you look up a link to the St. Albans Historical Society I'm sure you'll find scads of info!

[harry chickpea]

New England Central took the CV trackage. There aren't any others running through there, although it interchanges with the Canadian rrs. Paper products, building supplies like lumber, there are two or three yahoo groups on the Vermont railroads. One school bus driver lives in St. A and posts regularly.

[rskor25]

VTcurious,
I worked for Vermont Railway out of Burlington VT and the only rail lines that run through St. Albans at this time is NECR (New England Central Railway) which is based out of Conn. or Mass. they run two freight trains per day one north bound and one south bound daily and they run from their base to Montreal. The only other rail line that runs through St. Albans is Amtrak which is called "The Montrealer" and that runs twice a day, northbound & southbound.
Also NECR runs a train from St. Albans to VT Railway in Burlington almost on a daily basis which picks up cars and drops off cars in their rail yard.
I hope this helps

[Doug 20910]

Here some background information about a
narrow gauge railroad that ran along the West River Valley in VT,
between Brattleboro and South Londonderry from 1879 to 1927.
I learned about this railroad from my aunt who lives in,
South Londonderry, Vt.
It quickly earned the nickname 36 miles of trouble.
Here a url link about a web site about it.
vt_brattleboro_slondonderry_cv
I was the person who provided the information about it to him.
Let me know what you think about it. ok
I live in the state of Maryland.
I'm looking forward to hearing your reply and comments.
Sincerely,
Doug Climenson

[flu189]

Check out, I believe, the website railfan.com. They either cover or have links to sites with all the states with info on former and current railroads with picture archives.

[Chuck Kershner]

Anyone have a good schematic of the Italy Yard and service facilities in St. Albans, Vt.? Trying to model this yard in HO scale and a fuzzy GoogleEarth doesn't show enough detail. My memory of this grand facility from teen-age years in the 1960s can re-envision some but not all of the details. Any help would be appreciated.

[harry chickpea]

Chuck, Bob C. Jones series on the CV has schematics of all of the yards in volume two. Pages 136 and 137 have a schematic of Beartown, Middle, North, and Italy yards there. The period covered by that volume is the glory years from 1887 to 1910.

It isn't very helpful for your quest, but terraserver has the USGS topo map from 1981
Microsoft TerraServer Imagery (http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=2&S=12&Z=18&X=813&Y=6205&W=1&qs=|Sain t+Albans|Vermont - broken link)

An older geodesic map is here:
http://docs.unh.edu/VT/salb16se.jpg

It says it is from 1916, but I'm a little doubtful, although it does show the trolley line.

[chrismpv]

Just a correction on the Amtrak train, it's called the Vermonter since the train stops now in St Albans to connect to bus service to Montreal. The Montrealer used to go to Montreal.