Northern Vermont Railroad (Northern Vermont Railroad Company Incorporated) (reporting remark NVR) was a former

class III railroad In the United States, railroad carriers are designated as Class I, II, or III, according to annual revenue criteria originally set by the Surface Transportation Board in 1992. With annual adjustments for inflation, the 2019 thresholds were US$5 ...

that operated in

Vermont Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to ...

from 1996 to 2002. NVR was based in Newport, Vermont. The Northern Vermont Railroad was created by holding company

Iron Road Railways Iron Road Railways Incorporated (IRR) 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 headq ...

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 all in

) were owned by

Canadian American Railroad The Canadian American Railroad was a railroad that operated between Brownville Junction, Maine and Lennoxville, Quebec. The railroad later expanded west to Farnham, Quebec and then St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec with running rights on Canadian ...

. Iron Road ceased operations in late 2002 and NVR was merged along with

, Bangor and Aroostook Railroad and Quebec Southern Railway to form

Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway The Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway was a Class II freight railroad that operated in the U.S. states of Maine and Vermont and the Canadian province of Quebec between 2002 and 2014. It was headquartered in Hermon, Maine. Its Canadian subsid ...

, which also went bankrupt following the Lac-Mégantic disaster. The

Central Maine and Quebec Railway The Central Maine & Québec Railway was a Class II freight railroad operating in the U.S. states of Maine and Vermont and the Canadian province of Quebec with headquarters in Bangor, Maine. It was owned by Railroad Acquisition Holdings, LLC, ...

(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 the former CP lines into its system. Service on NVR routes was resumed by the Washington County Railroad in 2003.

Rolling Stock

NVR operated a handful of locomotives, boxcars and snowplows * 3

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U * numerous Pullman-Standard 50' boxcars * 1 ex- Canadian Pacific Railway snowplow - likely built at CP Angus Shops

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Defunct Vermont railroads Predecessors of the Canadian Pacific Railway Railway lines opened in 1996 2002 disestablishments in the United States {{Vermont-transport-stub