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Remembering the Rutland Q. #131 (05/26/03) 1. Is the 260 the oldest continuously active revenue coach in the nation? That is to
say that it has never been removed from active service. Built in 1891 it certainly might
qualify. I know that there are other pieces that people say are older but usually they
were ressurections of retired pieces and/or they do not see continuous duty. Click here to email your response. Please refer to Q #131. Q. #132 (05/26/03) I'm wondering if the Rutland ever used the RS-1's (or RS-3's for that matter) in helper service or pusher service up through Clarendon and over the summit of Mount Holly. Quite a grade there... Never saw a picture of it for diesel, but I saw in the RUTLAND book by Shaughsney that in steam days helpers were commonplace. Anyone know?-J. Mossman Click here to email your response. Please refer to Q #132. Q. #133 (05/26/03) I am building the Bellows Falls sub in HO scale. Does anyone have plans for the Rutland roundhouse, watertank and coal tipple? Also, what color(s) were these structures? -Joel DiTrolio Click here to email your response. Please refer to Q #133. Q. #134 (05/26/03) What would be the proper surface for a trackside waiting area for passengers? I'm
involved in the preservation of the Lisbon, NY, station, and we're trying to determine
whether dirt, cinders, brick (laid out zig-zag, parallel, or perpendicular?), asphalt or
earlier equivalent, wood (arranged parallel or perpendicular to the track) is the
appropriate surface. A. (09/01/03) Most rural stations used crushed cinders in the passenger waiting areas. -Armand Premo Click here to email your response. Please refer to Q #134. Q. #135 (05/26/03) I understand that RPO cars (in general) usually traveled with the mail compartment forward, next to the tender and away from the passengers. When mail cars ran on the Rutland, were they turned at their destination and (if they weren't turned) where were they placed in the train for the return trip? Did the Rutland have a preferred orientation for RPO cars, such as the mail compartment always forward?-Richard Munkelwitz Click here to email your response. Please refer to Q #135. Q. #136 (09/01/03) I have lived part time ajacent to the Rutland Railroad right-of-way in Colchester since
1944. I walked the tracks as a kid as it was the shortest route to Burlington. If my
memory is correct [the Rutland was] three (3) tracks wide at a point just short of the
causeway to South Hero. I also seem to remember a small shelter station where the Rutland
crosses the road to Sand Dunes. I know that Colchester Point was once a stop as I rode the
train and I remember it listed on the ticket as a stop. I think it was only an "on
demand" stop. -Bill Hauke Q. #137 (09/01/03) Last year I bought an MTH O Mikado, purportedly a Rutland prototype. While it is a nice model, only the number and lettering resemble the Mikado locomotives I remember hauling freight to and from Chatham, NY. The boiler front is entirely different, with the bell projected out ahead instead of being distinctively perched on the boiler front. Also, the side tanks and pipes seem incorrect. It appears MTH took a generic USRA Mikado and simply lettered it for different roads. Has anyone encountered this model and is it possible it does follow some Rutland prototype? -John Hetherington [Back to Rutland Q&A Directory] |
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