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The Vermont Railway (reporting mark VTR) is a shortline railroad in Vermont and eastern New York, operating much of the former Rutland Railway. It is the main part of the Vermont Rail System , which also owns the Green Mountain Railroad , the Rutland's branch to Bellows Falls .
Barre was primarily a small sleepy agricultural community until it was joined to the national railroad network by the Central Vermont Railway in 1875. Granite had been quarried in the surrounding hills as early as the early 19th century, but the arrival of that railroad connection, and another directly to the quarries in 1888, rapidly accelerated development of the granite industry.
Central Vermont Railway: Montpelier and Barre Railroad: MB 1956 1980 Washington County Railroad: Montpelier and St. Johnsbury Railroad: B&M: 1866 1880 St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain Railroad: Montpelier and Wells River Railroad: M&WR B&M: 1867 1945 Barre and Chelsea Railroad: Montpelier and White River Railroad: CN: 1867 1891 Central Vermont ...
The East Shoreham Covered Railroad Bridge is a historic covered bridge spanning the Lemon Fair River near East Shoreham, Vermont. Built in 1897 by the Rutland Railroad Company, it is the state's only surviving example of a wooden Howe truss railroad bridge. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. [1]
The Vermont Central Railroad was chartered October 31, 1843, [1] to build a line across the center of Vermont, running from Burlington on Lake Champlain east to the capital Montpelier, and then southeast and south to Windsor on the Connecticut River. Initial plans had the main line running through Montpelier.
Connecticut River: Westminster, Vermont, and Walpole, New Hampshire: Windham County, Vermont, and Cheshire County, New Hampshire: VT-1-A: E. & T. Fairbanks & Company, Two-Story Covered Bridge Demolished Town lattice truss: 1876 1969 Sleepers River
The village was established in the 19th century as the halfway point in the Grand Trunk Railway, an international railroad connecting Portland, Maine and Montreal. Island Pond was a major service center for the railroad, and became a commercial hub of northeastern Vermont. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in ...
The Downtown Richford Historic District encompasses a cluster of commercial and industrial buildings at the center of Richford, Vermont.Centered on the junction of Main and River Streets are a cluster of mainly brick buildings, built between 1880 and 1920, with several industrial properties just across the Missisquoi River to the south, whose waters provided the power for the industries that ...