Was in Newport VT and noticed the rail line there splits in town. One goes on a trestle over the lake and one goes straight next to the mall. Is the line going past the mall active and are there any rail customers in Newport. Didn’t see any rail service to the grain mill there.
Line on the Left is the CMQ (former CP) up to Richford/Farnham from Wells River, line on the right is the former CP/Quebec Central Beebe Sub up to Sherbrooke. The Beebe spur goes another mile or two up the road past the mall and ends at Columbia Forest Products, north of end of track there was abandoned in 1990. Poulin Grain definitely gets cars, they had several spotted last time I was up there around January. Tanks and covered hoppers.
Did you happen to stop in at the Newport yard at all? That would have been a few miles south of the split you mention. That is where CMQ hands off it's southbound traffic to Vermont Rail System.