Trackside Log for Monday, March 17, 2008

Sam and I were heading home from Montreal today after the St. Patrick's Day Parade the previous day. We took the scenic route through Vermont and New York. The weather was perfect for it. It was a gorgeous sunny day and the mountains looked amazing. We stopped off at St. Albans, Vermont to see what might be parked at the New England Central.

• 1218 St. Albans, VT - NECR power - GSWR 1901
• 1220 St. Albans, VT - NECR power - NECR 3848
• 1221 St. Albans, VT - NECR power - NECR 3857-NECR 3840-NECR 5032
• 1224 St. Albans, VT - NECR power - CSOR 8552-NECR 3854

NECR 3854 was looking a little sad with a missing prime mover and traction motors. After a really nice drive through the mountains we stopped at the Vermont Railway in Rutland where a Clarendon & Pittsford GP38-2 was parked.

• 1522 Rutland, VT - VTR power - CLP 204

After Rutland Sam and I drove straight home. The drive through the mountains was a really nice ending to this year's sojourn to the Montreal St. Patrick's Day Parade.

Trackside Log for Saturday, March 15, 2008

Today Sam and I left for this year's Montreal St. Patrick's Day Parade. We decided to take the route through New York to get there and made one stop along the way, at the Finger Lakes Railway in Geneva. I was hoping to photograph the two B23-7s they had recently purchased from the Providence & Worcester. Luck was with me and they were both parked in front of the shops.

• 1621 Geneva, NY - Finger Lakes power - FGLK 2306-FGLK 2307

After a few photos we drove to Montreal.