Last Sunday was dreary and damp. I inspected the old Central Vermont Railway Palmer Subdivision main track at the Massachusetts-Connecticut state line, where I was delighted to find these vestiges from the steam era.<\/p>\n
The tie plate below the rail date from the 1940s and still bear evidence of the CV, a company gone since 1995, when New England Central assumed operation of the line.<\/p>\n I wonder how many times CV\u2019s classic 2-8-0 steam locomotives pounded over these plates in years gone by? Not to mention carrying the passage of CV\u2019s later era locomotives such as the GP9s and Alco RS-11s that I grew up around.<\/p>\n How much longer will these vestiges survive? A welded rail train arrived a couple of days later, so it\u2019s anyone\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n Last Sunday was dreary and damp. I inspected the old Central Vermont Railway Palmer Subdivision main track at the Massachusetts-Connecticut state line, where I was delighted to find these vestiges from the steam era. The tie plate below the rail date from the 1940s and still bear evidence of the CV, a company gone since … Continue reading Vestiges of the Central Vermont Railway.<\/span> ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/CVRY_Tie_plate_DSCF7880.jpg\")
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