Railfan Day on the WRD

The old farm is gone and a new cottage and shed are located next to the crossing now.  B&M RS-3 leads a local past the new cottage where the old farm once stood.

     Chasing Trains Along The White River Division....by Don Janes

         The forecast was calling for sunny skies and mild temperatures so I took advantage of the good weather to do some railfanning along the White River Division.  There were a lot of changes since I had been out along the line last time.  I was even able to get some pretty good shots of a few mainline trains as well as some action in White River Jct. yard.  All in all it was a good day for photos and to see what was new on the WRD.

Shortly after arriving at Fairlee a B&M train pulled up to the ball signal and stopped.  Hopefully a Rutland train would show up soon.

Sure enough, a few minutes later a steam powered milk train rounded the curve.  Here it is passing a section gang removing the last remnants of the old mainline.

The milk train behind Rutland 2-8-2 #32 eased across the diamond.

I decided to rush ahead and try to catch up with the B&M train.  I caught it at Petersburgh.  The agent is busy sorting express dropped off a little earlier.

Not far from Petersburgh I spotted a logging crews cutting logs on the steam powered saw.

I stopped by the Westboro roundhouse and saw a B&M RS-3 and an E-7 being serviced.  The 3810 would soon be heading back to Boston.

Over at the WRJ yard  CV S-2 7919 was pulling out of the yard with a cut of cars from the B&M.

Just as the CV train's caboose was clearing a B&M freight showed up behind a brand new GP-9 #1724.  That's the B&M yard office in the foreground.

Here is another view of the B&M GP-9 from between the barn and yard office.