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neman2. Thanks for the correction.

Thanks to Isaiahs trains for this video on 2/12/20 of CSX switching
new Waste Management Facility in Leominister MA 18 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfZ4EDMtBgc

Amtrak.com shows #69 is running to Montreal on 2/19. Amtrak #68 will run from Montreal on 2/20.

It is not only Plattsburg that is being denied service. There are seven other stations in NY between Albany and Rouses Point.
The Anniversary cabbage #406 seems to have been assigned to Downeaster service for the last several months. That could be
reassigned to the Adirondack service.

PAR Detour Train on VRS. 1:12 Thanks to SD80Mactim for the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUteXYKVM_g

NS has issued an advisory that the tunnel is expected to reopen on Monday, February 17th. Full Advisory here.

http://www.nscorp.com/content/nscorp/en ... ption.html

From the Portland Press Herald.
Trespasser Strike/Fatality at Falmouth

https://www.pressherald.com/2020/02/13/ ... -falmouth/

The VTR built a siding along the GMRC after the top of the hill leaving Rutland to stage the slurry cars arriving from Florence during the week, which are moved as a unit train to Bellows Falls on Saturdays. I do not know the car capacity of that track, but that might be a possibility for the PAR ru...

I do not recall that the Downeaster ever used anything but a cabbage on one end and a loco on the other, or a loco on each end from Day #1, December 15th, 2001.

There was a partial collapse in the Hossac tunnel, toward the west end earlier today. PAR is arranging a detour route via the Vermont Railway from Hossick Jct to Rutland and down the Green Mountain Line to Bellows Falls and PAR to East Deerfield for eastbound general freight and the reverse for west...

The cooling system on the 1701 must be drained. So fill the radiator to start.

From ABC News. Com

https://abcnews.go.com/International/fi ... d=68808691

If you want to consider Office Car Specials as "passenger trains", there are two of note. On November 1, 1981, MEC ran their OCS on the Mountain Division. It never made it to St. Johnsbury, as it hit a washout in Miles Pond Vt and derailed. The two locomotives, including the #573 were badl...

It may be that the BSRM does not have common carrier reporting marks.
The state does own the Adams branch.

These two BSRM coaches are reportedly on their way to Adams MA
Thanks to Larry Watkins for the photo.
http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo ... ex=2&key2=