{"id":20236,"date":"2018-02-03T05:26:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T10:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=20236"},"modified":"2018-01-09T21:31:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T02:31:09","slug":"central-vermont-railway-ended-23-years-ago-today-february-3-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/central-vermont-railway-ended-23-years-ago-today-february-3-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Vermont Railway Ended 23 Years Ago Today (February 3, 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"

On February 3, 1995, Canadian National Railway\u2019s American affiliate Central Vermont Railway ended operations.<\/p>\n

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Shortly thereafter, the newly created RailTex short line called New England Central assumed operation of the former CV route. Since that time, New England Central became part of Rail America, which was then acquired by Genesee & Wyoming.<\/p>\n

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Despite these changes, a few of New England Central\u2019s start-up era GP38s are still on the move in the classy blue and yellow livery.<\/p>\n

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Central Vermont GP9 4442 leads freight 562B upgrade at Maple Street in Monson, Massachusetts on December 23, 1986.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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New England Central approaches its 23 anniversary. Another view at Maple Street in Monson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although exposed more than 30 years apart. This pair of \u2018then and now\u2019 photos at Maple Street in Monson, Massachusetts, helps delineate my appreciation for New England Central and Central Vermont.<\/p>\n

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On February 3, 1995, Canadian National Railway\u2019s American affiliate Central Vermont Railway ended operations.   Shortly thereafter, the newly created RailTex short line called New England Central assumed operation of the former CV route. Since that time, New England Central became part of Rail America, which was then acquired by Genesee & Wyoming.   Despite … Continue reading Central Vermont Railway Ended 23 Years Ago Today (February 3, 2018)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[4531,2406,493,1067,7535,81],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/CV_Ry_GP9s_Monson_train562_Dec_23_1986_Brian_Solomon_444102.jpg?fit=1773%2C1127","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-5go","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20236"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20237,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20236\/revisions\/20237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}