I'm ignorant on the Vermonter route through Palmer, so please excuse me...but is it physically possible at all to reconstruct the junctions so that the Vermonter would not have to do these reverse moves?
CNJ wrote:I'm ignorant on the Vermonter route through Palmer, so please excuse me...but is it physically possible at all to reconstruct the junctions so that the Vermonter would not have to do these reverse moves?Not without a large cost for property acquisition, since adding a wye leg in the northwest quadrant of the junction would involve building on non-railroad, developed land. There would also be some challenging geometry issues because of the sharp angle at which the former B&A and CV lines cross.
Container wrote: Now, regarding running a through train from St. Albans to Montreal, what is the obstacle here? Why did Amtrak stop running through to Montreal, only to replace this service with a bus? Could all-rail service be restored?As I wrote a page back, they stopped because of the high incremental costs of running into Canada on CN, and all-rail service will be restored only if some govermental entity pays for it.