Northern Vermont Railroad
Northern Vermont Railroad (Northern Vermont Railroad Company Incorporated) (reporting remark NVR) was a former class III railroad that operated in Vermont from 1996 to 2002. NVR was based in Newport, Vermont.
| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Newport, Vermont |
| Reporting mark | NVR |
| Locale | Vermont |
| Dates of operation | 1996–2002 |
| Predecessor | none |
| Successor | Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway |
| Technical | |
| Track gauge | 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
| Length | 86 miles (138 km) |
The Northern Vermont Railroad was created by holding company Iron Road Railways on and began operations on 28 September 1996 [1] on the former Canadian Pacific Railway's Lyndonville Subdivision and the Boston and Maine Railroad's former Wells River Subdivision.
The company had no employees, and trackage rights on the system (with 86 miles (138 km) all in Vermont) were owned by Canadian American Railroad.[1]
Iron Road ceased operations in late 2002 and NVR was merged along with Canadian American Railroad, Bangor and Aroostook Railroad and Quebec Southern Railway to form Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway, which also went bankrupt following the Lac-Mégantic disaster. The Central Maine and Québec Railway was formed as the successor to the MM&A, and is to resume operations in 2016.
Service on NVR routes was resumed by the Washington County Railroad in 2003.
Rolling Stock
NVR operated a handful of locomotives, boxcars and snowplows[2]
- 3 EMD GP35U [3]
- numerous Pullman-Standard 50' boxcars
- 1 ex-Canadian Pacific Railway snowplow - likely built at CP Angus Shops
References
- "Home - RRB.Gov" (PDF). www.rrb.gov.
- vanderHeide, Chris. "Canadian Freight Car Gallery - Northern Vermont Railroad". freight.railfan.ca.
- "Iron Road Railways". donsdepot.donrossgroup.net.