INSANE DETOUR on the Green Mountain! SD40 Action and a Busy Day Across the Vermont Rail System

[@alanwbelcher]

Great job capturing a busy day on the VTR. Thanks for sharing with us.

[@djmattson6491]

Sweet catches awesome video tks for sharing 😀 👍 👏 👌 🙌 ❤️

[@railfansammy4974]

Nice catches

[@fredlohmann1448]

that was CENTRAL VERMONT TRACKAGE!

[@tigerphid9677]

Great video. It's good to see coverage of regional trains and not just the same old main-line Class 1 stuff.

[@NorthCountryTrains]

@@tigerphid9677 shortlines and regionals are my specialty!

[@Steve-xf4uv]

People don't expect this in Vermont. Big time railroading, six axle multiple power and a long train. Great catch Harrison. Nice shots in many picturesque places.

[@MillersRailfan]

You have shown us many of your productions featuring the VTR Each one is better than the previous one No exception here!!!!!

[@recycle343]

Beautiful, back in the 1960 thee Green Mt trains were green with yellow stripes. To dangerous around these back roads.

[@derekreim1754]

Going to miss those sd40's necr bought some ex csx c40-8 and i believe they are selling or scraping about 10 sd40s

[@Northeast_Rail_guy]

R.I.P SD40's 1966-2024

[@DH2906PRODUCTIONS]

It's definitely a very colorful lashup Love the blue and orange mixed in Not to mention classic EMD's

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

That was a FAST 46 minutes Harrison! Great shots all the way through! I see they don't call Vermont the "Green Mountain State" for nothing, there's some beautiful scenery up there. The Chester VT station looks to be in nice condition and I couldn't help but notice the old semaphore signals were still in place although obviously deactivated. And it looks like you revisited the Ludlow washout site if that big pile of rocks is any indication. Well done! Thanks for posting!

[@johnrockstone]

Excellent video! Places I've been!

[@MillersRailfan]

Beautiful sequence thru Middlebury

[@MarcelosalivaTRENESArg]

Excellent video my friends 😊awesome 😮

[@MillersRailfan]

Beautiful opener W/ RDBD

[@3985uprr]

I’m visiting Plattsburgh this week. Does the Plattsburgh switcher still work around here? What is the symbol?

[@NorthCountryTrains]

@@3985uprr G51, Monday-Friday at 0800

[@stephenflanders2190]

How come you don,t have videos of the rail out around Manchester Vt and Caselton V t down along R T 7 towards Conn that’s real pretty country

[@MillersRailfan]

Ludlow looks great Much better than last year at this time

[@NSandBNSFrailfanProductions]

Nice video! I subscribed

[@skruloos1]

Nice video..

[@vrmntthb]

As was in Pan Ams detours with the tunnel down some years back, the foreign road units never led if their need to detour wasn’t a long term designation for those to run on point. It was always personnel that worked the lines they used as an alternate to lead those trains to destinations where they could lead their manifests again in familiar territory…

[@GRS504videos]

Wrong, I worked on those Pan Am detours while at VTR, we ran Pan Am power as much as we could by itself.

[@vrmntthb]

@@GRS504videos I stand corrected then where I thought I had heard it was easier to run as a bird dog I’d you will the home locos if you weren’t certified for the old Dash units they had…but you’d know more on that possibly/…

[@GRS504videos]

@@vrmntthb if you can run one, you can run them all. I'm sure NECR isn't allowing VTR guys to run the NECR units for some specific reason.

[@NorthCountryTrains]

@@GRS504videos Actually the VTR guys ran the NECR units south to Rutland, but were “unhappy” with their performance and preferred to slap their own units on for the trip over the mountain

[@GRS504videos]

@@NorthCountryTrains can't imagine the performance was any worse than that junky ex GMTX unit and the poor excuse of decent power the SD70 is. Haha

[@creambob1]

You snuck in that SD-45 (I believe)!!

[@NorthCountryTrains]

@@creambob1 It’s an SD40 in an SD45 Body

[@MillersRailfan]

💜💜💜VTR 432

[@MillersRailfan]

Took Steamtown’s train from Bellows Falls to Chester in 1967

[@NorthCountryTrains]

@@MillersRailfan I wish steamtown was still here in New England

[@MillersRailfan]

@@NorthCountryTrains I think everyone does

[@PA-Railfan]

Nice

[@blhplays5107]

Ah, Vermont, my favorite.

[@MillersRailfan]

33:58 quintessential Vermont

[@MillersRailfan]

18:28 fabulous

[@ianconder1626]

Sometimes has to be done 👍👍👍👍👍

[@GMCGUY-]

Absolutely gorgeous Those SD40 looks so good. Are you sure the last 2 locomotives are SD40s They kind of look like SD45. Because if you look The hood scoops sideways on 2 of these units and on the other unit, it's flat. I'm talking about the airports in the back of the locomotive like on the sides. Right under that big white sticker. Unless It's just a different air induction system. You're probably right. They do still look like SD 40's But something made me think that they could be SD45. You do an awesome job on your man. I wouldn't want to see your gasoline bill for the month. I appreciate you getting this. Here's an idea. For a good Train spot. South deerfield massachusetts I know that line doesn't get much traffic.But when it does it's a great chase

[@NorthCountryTrains]

@@GMCGUY- they’re SD45 bodies re powered to be SD40s

[@GMCGUY-]

@NorthCountryTrains I never heard of this before none the less they look Awesome. I love this short lines

[@GMCGUY-]

There's another railroad in Pennsylvania in upstate New York that runs off of all Alco locomotives In their white in color I thought what the railroad was called.It's all over you too.If you look it up.I guarantee you can find it. I went there once and my mouth dropped. They had engines that were so rare and they had quite a few of them. Too of the same type of locomotive and these engines were crank in 3600 horsepower. And they were 6 axle. They were beasts If I can think of the railroad name I will send it to you but I know that you only go around new england area. I don't think you're going to travel all the way to pennsylvania

[@MillersRailfan]

😅 31:11 wonder how many years ago a very young Sheldon flagged that crossing?

[@MillersRailfan]

7:10 by the balls of Bellows Falls

[@TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyan]

I wonder why NECR was detouring on the Vermont Central what was wrong with their line that ran through Amhurst and three rivers Massachusetts?

[@NorthCountryTrains]

@@TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyan the NECR Roxbury Main was washed out + they were replacing a bridge

[@gmrcbfm]

I suspect washouts. Parts of Vermont were hit twice in mid July with heavy rain and flooding.

[@TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyan]

@@NorthCountryTrains oh OK I gotcha

[@MillersRailfan]

Rain? It doesn’t rain in Vermont 22:38

[@wcate8301]

...it only pours!😊

[@fredlohmann1448]

THAT IS A SD45

[@alanwbelcher]

The last 2 engines are indeed SD-45s but they’ve been downgraded to 3000 hp so are considered SD-40s.

[@MillersRailfan]

Yup; I was wondering when you were going to come around to mentioning the foam………

[@MillersRailfan]

What unintelligible language does that G&W dispatcher speak?

[@NorthCountryTrains]

@@MillersRailfan yappanise

[@MillersRailfan]

@@NorthCountryTrains 😆🤣😂

[@icosthop9998]

​@@NorthCountryTrains L😂L

[@aksyoutube9082]

Why aren’t you happy about 432 leading? At least 211 isn’t. She needs paint. lol

[@chrisdebarge7138]

Do they run these freights on anything that resembles a schedule?

[@NorthCountryTrains]

@@chrisdebarge7138 The GMRC runs Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday regularly

[@chrisdebarge7138]

@@NorthCountryTrains Thanks! Caught a glimpse of one in Proctorsville last year while visiting.

[@tommyhunter1817]

Sd40’s look like Sd45’s.

[@alanwbelcher]

The last 2 are rebuilt and downgraded SD-45s designated SD40-3s. So, you are correct, they appear to be SD45s.

[@tommyhunter1817]

@@alanwbelcher putting a pinto motor in a corvette doesn’t make it a pinto.

[@MillersRailfan]

Watch out for those one way drivers………