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Vermont Rail System
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- Type
- Freight railroad — Private short-line group; lessee of the State's active freight lines through Vermont Railway, Green Mountain Railroad and Washington County Railroad
- Market · Region
- United States · Vermont
- Open tenders
- 0
- Technology areas
- Track & civil, Digital operations
Operator of Vermont's leased state freight lines and host of the Ethan Allen Express north of Rutland.
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Operates the state-owned freight lines it leases from VTrans and hosts the Ethan Allen Express on the Vermont Railway between Rutland and Burlington. Co-invests with the State in the western-corridor bridge programme.
- Type
- Freight railroad — Private short-line group; lessee of the State's active freight lines through Vermont Railway, Green Mountain Railroad and Washington County Railroad
- Where
- Vermont · Rutland
- Technology areas
- Track & civil, Digital operations
Structure
- funded by VTrans Rail — Funds track, bridge and flood-mitigation work on the leased lines through the annual Transportation Program: the Vermont Railway Hoosick Sub track line, Green Mountain Railroad and Washington County Railroad hazard-mitigation lines and the Cavendish Bridge 132 line; the State and Vermont Rail Systems also together invest of the BUILD corridor project (active)
Who holds what here
- leases from VTrans Rail — State-owned lines leased to the Vermont Rail System operating companies: Washington County Railroad (Connecticut River line, term to 30 June 2033, and Montpelier to Websterville, to 30 June 2034), Green Mountain Railroad (to 31 December 2030) and Vermont Railway (to 5 January 2034) (active)
- Contract detail and values (1)$5–25mIn the United States edition See a fully open example
Sources for these relationships (5)
- ● VTrans FY2026 Transportation Program - Rail (as passed) · FY2026 as-passed rail programme: total line items, Amtrak operations subsidy, Windsor-St. Albans CRISI(17) and Tri-State Regional Rail Upgrade CRISI(24) lines; also the VTRY(59), REGM2350, REWC2318, GMRC(24), VTRY(45) and RAIL PASS. SERVICE lines (published 2025-06-10 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● Governor's release: State awarded $20 million to rehabilitate rail bridges (7 December 2018) · Governor's office release on the BUILD award for 31 Vermont Railway bridges between Rutland and Hoosick, NY; projected cost, State and Vermont Rail Systems contribution (published 2018-12-07 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● VTrans memo on the Washington County Railroad lease renewal (19 March 2024) · Memo to the Senate Transportation Committee: State acquired the Montpelier & Barre line in 1980; 1999 operating agreement with the Washington County Railroad Company, an affiliate of the Vermont Rail System, due to expire 30 June 2024 (published 2024-03-19 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● Vermont railroad leases table (legislative overview, 7 May 2025) · One-page table of the four state-owned line leases: lessee, section, length and current term (published 2025-05-07 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● VTrans report on master licence agreements (15 November 2019) · VTrans report to the legislature: the State owns over 300 miles of rail right-of-way, much of it leased for use by Vermont Rail System (published 2019-11-15 · checked 2026-10-08)
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- Procurement structure
- Award history (2)
- Entry path
- Portals (1)
- Published contacts (1)
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8 sources · all primary
- ● Vermont railroad leases table (legislative overview, 7 May 2025) · One-page table of the four state-owned line leases: lessee, section, length and current term (published 2025-05-07 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● VTrans memo on the Washington County Railroad lease renewal (19 March 2024) · Memo to the Senate Transportation Committee: State acquired the Montpelier & Barre line in 1980; 1999 operating agreement with the Washington County Railroad Company, an affiliate of the Vermont Rail System, due to expire 30 June 2024 (published 2024-03-19 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● VTrans report on master licence agreements (15 November 2019) · VTrans report to the legislature: the State owns over 300 miles of rail right-of-way, much of it leased for use by Vermont Rail System (published 2019-11-15 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● Governor's release: State awarded $20 million to rehabilitate rail bridges (7 December 2018) · Governor's office release on the BUILD award for 31 Vermont Railway bridges between Rutland and Hoosick, NY; projected cost, State and Vermont Rail Systems contribution (published 2018-12-07 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● 2025 Vermont Rail Plan (December 2025) · State Rail Plan: Amtrak services, 570.3 active route miles with 297.6 state-owned, rail funding outlook, CRISI projects, Corridor ID grants, SFY2026 rail programme (published 2025-12-29 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● VTrans Amtrak to Burlington project page · Project overview of the Ethan Allen Express extension to Burlington: service start 29 July 2022, station platform and Vermont Rail System yard work phases (published 2022-07-29 · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● Vermont Rail System - Contact page · VRS contact page: emergency dispatch, general offices, passenger services and customer-service desks; the site loads with a standard browser user agent (published undated · checked 2026-10-08)
- ● Vermont Rail System - About VRS · VRS describes itself as an affiliation of seven shortlines including Vermont Railway, Green Mountain Railroad, Clarendon and Pittsford and Washington County Railroad (published undated · checked 2026-10-08)
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