The Rutland and Whitehall Railroad is a defunct railroad which operated in the state of

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. The railroad, also known as the Castleton Company, received its charter from Vermont in 1848 and opened in 1850. Its main line ran from Castleton, Vermont to

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, which lay on the

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border.Vermont Railroad Commissioner (1856), 97-99. It also operated a branch line from west of Castleton north along Lake Bomoseen which served local slate quarries. At the eastern end of its line it connected to the

Rutland and Washington Railroad The Rutland and Washington Railroad was a railroad company based in Rutland, Vermont which was chartered in Vermont on November 13, 1847 and built between Rutland and Eagle Bridge in Rensselaer County, New York in 1851 and 1852. One of the compan ...

; on the western side the Saratoga and Whitehall Railroad, a New York company. The Saratoga and Whitehall leased the Rutland and Whitehall on its completion in 1850.Poor (1860), 77. From March 14, 1865 the

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leased both companies and operated them together. The

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, which already controlled the Rensselaer and Saratoga, took over operation of the Rutland and Whitehall on May 1, 1871 and the lease of the line on June 15, 1871.

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, 116 I.C.C. 611 (1926)
Valuation Docket No. 328, Delaware and Hudson Company et al.
pp. 646-648. The Rutland and Whitehall had depots in Fair Haven, Castleton, and Hydeville. The Castleton depot re-opened in 2010 and serves

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's ''

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* * *{{cite book , author=Vermont Railroad Commissioner , title=First Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioner of the State of Vermont to the General Assembly , year=1856 , publisher=Geo. A. Tuttle & Co , location=Rutland, Vermont , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mfUSAAAAYAAJ 1848 establishments in Vermont Defunct Vermont railroads Predecessors of the Delaware and Hudson Railway American companies established in 1848