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| Author: | bobyar2001 [ Sat Oct 02, 2004 8:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | LVRC scrappings |
Saw this on the VRS/Rutland discussion list. Sounds like it is from a local newspaper, but don't know which one: It's the end of an era. The last train cars left on Morrisville, Vermont's tracks were dismantled and began to be hauled away last week. The State of Vermont hired CJ Rail Services, a contractor out of Scarborough, ME, to get rid of the snow plow (or flanger) and flat cars parked by the old train station, and the engine left by the old engine house, in Morrisville. Fed Janci, principal of CJ Rail Services, said the state contracted them to get rid of the rolling stock in advance of the tracks being pulled up to make way for a rail trail. CJ Rail Services dismantles obsolete and wrecked trains all over New England. Janci and his crew used blow torches and crowbars to take apart the old trains. Janci said this is his second working trip to Morrisville. Five or six years ago he dismantled an engine stored inside the engine house. Janci said the other engine parked at the engine house is privately owned by a man in Hardwick. After the tracks between Morrisville and Hardwick washed out, the owner could not relocate his engine. Janci said the owner will be taking the shell to that engine. The move will require a truck to haul the shell and a crane to load and unload the shell. Janci acknowledged the other trains he was dismantling were also likely privately owned. However, he said, when it comes down to moving the old trains from where they sit, the owners are not interested in the hassle or expense. He said parts of the train cars dismantled from the train station section of tracks will be going to a railroad museum in St. Johnsbury. |
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| Author: | tramways [ Sat Oct 02, 2004 9:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: LVRC scrappings |
I guess I should consider myself lucky to have ridden the entire line in June 1991, fulfilling a thirty year old dream. Was that the last trip over the whole pike? |
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