Rutland Railroad

The Rutland Railway ( to 1950 Rutland Railroad ) ( RUT) was a railway company in Vermont, Massachusetts and New York (United States) and Quebec ( Canada). It consisted including its direct predecessor societies 1843 until 1963.

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History

Construction of the main line and further expansion

The state of Vermont was in the early 1840s without rail, although he was still quite densely populated, than, say, Maine, which had been since 1836 rail traffic. Some railway companies were planning on a route along the eastern border of the state in the Valley of the Connecticut River. However, this route opened up not the larger towns of Vermont, Rutland, Burlington and the capital of Montpelier. Montpelier should be tapped by the Founded in 1841, Vermont Central Railroad (VCR ), which planned a route from the valley of the Connecticut River on Montpelier to Burlington.

In order to further bind Rutland, and other cities in the South, was founded on November 1, 1843, the Champlain and Connecticut River Railroad. She wanted, largely parallel to the VCR, build a route from the west bank of the Connecticut River about Rutland to Burlington. Even before the opening of the first railroad in Vermont, the company was restructured as after financial problems in Rutland and Burlington Railroad on November 6, 1847. On March 28, 1867 saw a further renaming of the railway company and changed its name from that day as Rutland Railroad.

In May 1847, the Railway Company began construction of the 192 kilometer standard gauge railway line Bellows Falls Burlington. It was only in June 1849, the first portion of Bellows Falls to Chester went temporarily in operation, the rest of the route followed on 18 December 1849. On December 24, regular operation was recorded. Thus, the web had won the race to Burlington only very slightly - the VCR reached the Lake Champlain on 31 December. The trains ran over Bellows Falls Vermont and beyond the Massachusetts Railroad to Boston by taking a ride from Burlington to Boston then cost six dollars.

Since the Rutland & Burlington was never really lucrative, the company was looking for additional revenue sources. Therefore you leased the Vermont Valley Railroad, which had built the southern continuation of the Rutland trail over Bellows Falls to Brattleboro addition. This route was an important transit route from the New York metropolitan area in the province of Quebec and was therefore ideal to supplement the finances. The contract became effective on June 1, 1865 and ran for ten years. On January 23, 1871, the Rutland took over the management of the VVR, but leased them simultaneously to the VCR. On April 5, 1877 dissolving the contract with the Vermont Valley Railroad on, however, and handed over control of the route to the Connecticut River Railroad.

The Whitehall and Plattsburgh Railroad, whose route went from Plattsburgh to Ausable could be leased September 26, 1870. This route had no connection to Rutland Main Line and was sold in 1873 to the New York and Canada Railroad. On 1 December 1870, the Rutland leased the track Brattleboro Grout 's Corner (now Millers Falls ) of the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad for 15 years and expanded its sphere of influence thus to Massachusetts from. This route was sold on May 1, 1880, the New London Northern Railroad. From December 7, 1870, was founded on 2 November 1867 as subsidiary Addison Railroad stood for 99 years under lease, the planned route at Whiting branched off from the main line and led Rutland to Fort Ticonderoga. This track went on 1 December 1871 in operation.

The VCR, 1873 Central Vermont Railroad (CV ) indicates that the Rutland Railroad lease for 20 years from 1 January 1871, the contract was not extended until 7 May 1896 but then canceled. On January 23, 1871, the Rutland leased theirs nor the Montreal and Plattsburgh Railroad, whose route ran along the western shore of Lake Champlain from Plattsburgh along the Canadian border.

In November 1898, based in Vermont, the Rutland - Canadian Railroad, on 10 July 1899, the Rutland and Noyan Railroad in Quebec. The two companies extended the Rutland main route to the north through the middle of Lake Champlain to Noyan Junction in Canada and Rouses Point, New York. The route crossed the islands in the lake. For this purpose, a headland north of Burlington, and Grand Isle was between Colchester Point, a three-mile- long causeway heaped up by the lake, which was interrupted in several places by bridges to continue to allow ship traffic. Even in 1899 went the distance in operation. On January 15, 1901, the Rutland Railroad bought both companies.

In the same year the Rutland also acquired other railway companies. These were the Bennington and Rutland Railway on July 30, the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad on September 27 and the Chatham and Lebanon Valley Railroad on December 21. The Addison Railroad was disbanded this year and integrated into the Rutland Railroad. Thus, the main line of Rutland is extended to 550 km and ran from Chatham on Rutland, Burlington and Alburgh to Ogdensburg.

The end of the Rutland Railroad

In January 1905, the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad acquired the majority of shares in Rutland Railroad. However, they sold half of the shares on 30 June 1911, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. After several derailments in 1918 and 1920, the ailing Trestle was shut down and demolished over Lake Champlain at Fort Ticonderoga on 28 July 1920. The trains now ended on the eastern shore at Larrabee Point.

After the world economic crisis in 1929 the volume of traffic went on the Rutland power back so much that in 1934 the route Alburgh - Noyan Junction and thus the only Rutland line was closed in Canada. and Rutland on May 5, 1938, filed for bankruptcy. Nevertheless, the operation could initially go on. By 1940, passenger ended south of Bennington.

In 1950 the reorganization in the Rutland Railway, after the volume of traffic continued to decline. On 21 May 1951, the section Orwell Larrabee Point of the former branch to Fort Ticonderoga was decommissioned on which until recently consisted of persons. Also on the rest of this branch line passenger on that day has been set. In 1953 the decommissioning of the section Whiting - Orwell. In December 1952, the Rutland Railway lay silent, the route Bennington Chatham, a shared right for the track White Creek Troy - Chatham with the Boston and Maine Railroad and the Boston and Albany Railroad was instead from May 20, 1953 agreed. On the occasion of a strike all passenger of Rutland has been discontinued and not resumed on 26 June 1953. In addition, the steam engines of the Rutland to March 1955 were replaced by diesel locomotives.

1961 submitted to the remaining portion of the former Addison Railroad silent after Whiting. On September 25, 1961, another strike, after the end of the operation has not been resumed began. On May 20 In 1963 the end for the Rutland Railway. The main line was closed from Burlington to Norwood. Between Rutland and Bellows Falls drove in 1964 the Green Mountain Railroad ( GMRC ). The section Norwood Ogdensburg took over the New York and Ogdensburg Railway ( NYOG ), the section of Bennington and White Creek to Burlington acquired the Vermont Railway, which later became the GMRC and on 9 April 2002 also bought the NYOG.

In the sections Burlington Charlotte and Chester Bellows Falls Tourism trains run regularly, namely the Champlain Valley Flyer or the Green Mountain Flyer. There are also special trains on other lines.

Locomotives

The steam locomotives of Rutland had different series, last locomotives were the axis sequences 1'D (Consolidation), 1'D1 ' ( Mikado ), 2'C ( Ten Wheeler ), 2'C1 ' (Pacific ), 2'D1 ' ( Mountain ), 1C ( Mogul ) as well as C - and D- shunting locomotives in use .. The Mountains were scrapped in 1955 as the last steam locomotives.

1951 and 1952 were procured 16 diesel locomotives, nine ALCO RS-3, six ALCO RS-1 and a GE 70 tonner.

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