Green Mountain Railroad (GMRC)
The Green Mountain Railroad (GMRC) is a class 3 shortline operating in Vermont. Once owned by F. Nelson Blount, the founder of Steamtown, USA, the GMRC once controlled the tracks that were used for Steamtown’s excursions between Riverside Station in Bellows Falls and Chester, Vermont but after Blount’s death in 1967, the GMRC changed hands, and a bitter relationship between the two developed that’s never subsided.
When the New England Central Railroad started up in 1995, the GMRC was able to offer service southward on the NECR which had been expensive when the line was owned by the Central Vermont Railroad.
In 1997, the GMRC was acquired by the Vermont Railway, forming the basis for the Vermont Rail System which grew to include five railroads in Vermont and one in New York state. Today the GMRC operates on tracks that used to be owned by the Rutland Railroad and the Boston and Maine Railroad and on a rail line between North Walpole, New Hampshire, and Rutland, Vermont.