As an example of what beautiful colors have blessed the "north shire of southern Vermont" this year, the returning B&R job splits the valley between the Taconic and Green Mountain ranges as today's consist wends its way near Emerald Lake late in the afternoon of Friday October 16. 301 and 432 are still making good time back north even as the cold front that passed earlier has "wrestled" many of the colorful leaves from the "reluctant" trees so proud of their splendor -- as each maple and oak attempts to eclipse their neighbor in radiance.

Photographed by Cully, October 16, 2015.
Added to the photo archive by John (Cully) Cullinan, October 17, 2015.
Railroad: Vermont Railway.

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