Time marches on. That’s what prompted me to get a summer job in high school in 1968 so I could buy a good camera and begin to document the fast-disappearing railroad scene so familiar to me. Not four-track mainline stuff, but the single track of the Vermont Railway (VTR) that passed through my home town. Absent traffic during the Rutland Railway strike, the appearance of the first VTR trains, led by RS-1s in a flashy red paint job showing up in 1964, was welcome indeed.