Passenger train experiment in Vermont some years ago

*Edited*
Did the state of Vermont subsidize VTR (or equivalent company in the past) to run passenger trains on one or more routes, maybe connecting with Amtrak for a looong trip into NYC, at some time maybe 20 or 30 years ago. I am not thinking of the Champaign flyer; this was (or perhaps was not) a longer-distance operation than that.

I might just be misremembering something I read about VTR and Green Mountain excursions.

Champlain Flyer, Burlington-Charlotte.

Sorry, my post was not well written. I meant before the Champaign Flyer, maybe connecting with the Ethan Allen at Rutland, maybe serving more than one route in Vermont.

I'm kind of thinking my memory IS playing tricks on me.

Not quite playing tricks on me:

I was dimly remembering the Ethan Allen Connection, a three-month trial train in Aug-Oct 1999 paid for by the state and operated by Vermont Railway from Burlington to Rutland: https://www.newspapers.com/article/rutl ... 105043084/. Wikipedia says not many people rode it and only a quarter of them transferred to/from the Ethan Allen.

There’s a picture of it somewhere on the interwebs rolling through New Haven, VT with a Clarendon & Pittsford unit pulling an HEP equipped boxcar and 2 ex-VRE “Boise Budds”.