I decide to bail on the Vermonter, spending the extra $22 to buy a ticket on Shuttle Train #405 in an hour to photograph the northbound train backing out. I walk through a very crowded Springfield Station–(40 Photos), and walk south down Main Street trying to get along the Connecticut River. Downtown Springfield has major problems […]
Tag: Vermonter Reroute
I have a nice morning with my cousins including their couple of young children who all decide to drop me off at the train station. We arrive maybe 20 minutes early. An older woman immediately comes out from the new Vermont/Connecticut River Valley tourism office behind the station welcoming us to wait inside there. She […]
Introduction and the electric Vermonter ride north from New York-Penn Station to New Haven. The train leaves New Haven–(14 Photos), two minutes late (at its weekdays departure time) at 1:25pm and were through the open-trench of New Haven. 1:30 – Officially curve off the Northeast Corridor. 1:37 – Alnex Wallingford plant. Then the Trackside Brick oven […]
Introduction: In early December Amtrak and the state of Massachusetts announced that Monday, December 29, 2014 (earlier than I thought it might be, having read January 2015 as the default date) would be the first date of service along the rerouted Vermonter route via the Knowledge Corridor via new stops in Northampton and Greenfield, with […]