T.G.'s Photography Blog

Looking southeast at the Fisher Covered Railroad Bridge.   The Fisher Covered Railroad Bridge was built in 1908, and spans the Lamoille River near Walcott, Vermont. It was built by the St. Johnsbury and Lamoille County Railroad. It saw use as a railroad bridge until 1994. Today, the bridge is being converted for recreational use as part of the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail. The northeast side of the bridge and the Lamoille River.   The Fisher Covered Railroad Bridge is an example of Itheil Town's lattice truss design and features a double-web lattice. A lattice bridge uses small, diagonal supports that form a lattice. Town's lattice design distributed the load across all of the supports, which allowed for the use of lighter-weight wood. The bridge is one of four surviving double-web Town lattice truss bridges in the United States. The other three bridges are Pier Bridge, Wright's Bridge, Contoocook Railroad Bridge. The other three bridges are all located in the state of New Ha...

At Rutland, Vermont, I stopped to see what the Vermont Railway (VTR) had at its shop along Park Street on July 4th. I knew it would be unlikely anything would be running, but I figured there might be some locomotives stored there. As luck would have it, VTR had seven locomotives idling next to its small maintenance shop and office. VTR 431 sits north of Park Street by the VTR shop (out of view to the left) Behind 431 are VTR 208, VTR 207 VTR 310, and VTR 209 (blue). VTR 432 and GMTX 518 are on the north side of the shop at Park Street. VTR 310 (GP40-2LW) sits between VTR 209 and VTR 207 at Park Street. VTR 310 was originally CN 9650. Photographs taken on July 4, 2022.