The VRS have exchanged crews and motive power at Chester Vermont. They will now take their trains back to Rutland and Bellows falls on the scenic former Rutland.
Brought around for the return trip to Bellows Falls, today's earlier rainstorm has the 405 looking particularly shiny.
GMRC 263 with 3 units and a cut of salt heads for Bellows Falls after a short stop in Chester for lunch.
A flagman stops traffic as the 405 pulls out of Chester with the 1230 train back to Bellows Falls.
VTR 201 leads train 263 past the Chester Depot enroute to Bellows Falls.
Vermont Rail Systems train 263 rumbles past the depot @ Chester, VT. Unfortunately the local Police Officer found it better to sit in my photo than to move, oh well!
The power of the '263' rolls under and impressive and colorful mountain that seems to just stick up out of the valley.
Between CHester and Bartonsville #263 rumbles past this cornfield sleeping for the winter. The stalks sticking out of the snow are actually 2-3 feet tall!
GMRC 302, VTR 307, VTR 310, VTR 303 roll the eastbound train through the Vermont countryside towards Bellows Falls
Green Mountain Flyer leaving Chester after a stop for ice cream
The salt train swaps power with the Bellows Falls switcher in Chester, VT.
VTR GP40-2 #303 and VTR GP38-2 #202 swap trains at Chester, VT
Green Mountain RS-1 405 idles at Chester VT station