Northern Vermont Railroad (Northern Vermont Railroad Company Incorporated) (reporting remark NVR ) was a former class III railroad that operated in Vermont from 1996 to 2002. NVR was based in Newport, Vermont.
6-569: The Northern Vermont Railroad was created by holding company Iron Road Railways on and began operations on 28 September 1996 on the former Canadian Pacific Railway 's Lyndonville Subdivision and the Boston and Maine Railroad 's former Wells River Subdivision. The company had no employees, and trackage rights on the system (with 86 miles (138 km) all in Vermont ) were owned by Canadian American Railroad . Iron Road ceased operations in late 2002 and NVR
12-564: The Surface Transportation Board for permission to operate former BAR lines that served major industrial customers in northern Maine. CN was granted permission to operate from Van Buren, Maine to Madawaska, Maine , while NBSR was granted permission to operate former BAR lines from Brownville Junction south to Searsport and north to Madawaska; neither applications became necessary after the BAR lines were sold. The BAR, CDAC, and part of
18-621: The QS/NV were sold in October 2002 to Rail World which reorganized the lines under its newly formed subsidiary Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway . The NV south of Newport to Wells River, Vermont was purchased by the state of Vermont and operation contracted to Washington County Railroad . The VBB had been operated on tracks leased from owner Canadian Pacific . In January 2003, Canadian Pacific sold this small line to Canadian National . Former IRR president Robert T. Schmidt retained ownership of
24-527: The former CP lines into its system. Service on NVR routes was resumed by the Washington County Railroad in 2003. NVR operated a handful of locomotives, boxcars and snowplows This United States rail–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about transportation in Vermont is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Iron Road Railways Iron Road Railways Incorporated (IRR)
30-724: Was a railroad holding company which owned several short line railroads in the U.S. state of Maine , as well as the Canadian provinces of Quebec , New Brunswick and Nova Scotia . IRR was formed in 1994 and headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia . Its president was Robert T. Schmidt and officers included Benjamin F. Collins, John F. DePodesta, and Daniel Sabin. IRR owned the following subsidiaries: In 2002, IRR's "Bangor and Aroostook System" (BAR, CDAC, VBB, and QS/NV) entered bankruptcy protection and service became jeopardized. Both Canadian National and New Brunswick Southern Railway applied to
36-525: Was merged along with Canadian American Railroad , Bangor and Aroostook Railroad and Quebec Southern Railway to form Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway , which also went bankrupt following the Lac-Mégantic disaster . The Central Maine and Quebec Railway (CMQ) was formed as the successor to the MM&;A, resuming operations in 2016; CMQ would be acquired by Canadian Pacific in 2019, thus bringing back some of
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