In Volume 16, Number 2 of the RRHS Newsliner, Robert W. Adams wrote an article titled “How Rutland RS1 #405 Became GMRC #405”. That article included a chart from his collection, dated July 31, 1962,

The Rutland Transit Company was the subsidiary of the Rutland Railroad which encompassed the railroad’s fleet of Great Lakes ships. Up until the Panama Canal Act, the Rutland worked competitively to ship cargo from Chicago

In Volume 16, Number 2 of the RRHS’s magazine, The Newsliner, author Robert W. Adams wrote an article called “Remembering the Rutland’s 80’s and 90’s class Steam Power”. The 80-series steam engines were 4-6-2’s and

The Rutland’s steam roster was not known for a standardized set of motive power like bigger railroads such as the Pennsylvania Railroad. Early into the “modern” Rutland era (Post 1900), many oddballs existed on the

Many things have been written over the years in the RRHS magazine, The Newsliner, about the Rutland’s fortunes in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. The end-game of the Rutland was settled by the struggle

Warren Dodgson wrote a piece titled “Gone Ballistic” in Volume 7, Number 4 of the RRHS magazine, “The Newsliner”. The article goes into much detail about the Cold War era ballistic missile(ICBM) sites that dotted

From Volume 17, Number 1 of the Rutland Railroad Historical Society’s publication, “The Newsliner” via contributor Steve Mumley: #500 – GE 70 Ton Locomotive. Purchase Price, $74,895. Down payment, $14,895. $60,000 financed with Killington Bank