rail project


  • Passenger rail service is back! Trains roll through Vergennes, Middlebury after 69 years

    Passenger rail service is back! Trains roll through Vergennes, Middlebury after 69 years

    Crowds cheer the arrival of passenger a train in Vergennes and Middlebury for the first time in nearly 70 years.

  • Editorial: A new beginning for Middlebury?

    Editorial: A new beginning for Middlebury?

    After three trying years of construction, including almost 10 weeks without downtown traffic this summer, Middlebury is on the verge of a new beginning — at least as…

  • Tunnel installation is scheduled for July 13

    MIDDLEBURY — Managers of the downtown Middlebury rail bridges project have tentatively picked July 13 as the starting date for a 10-week closure of both Main Street and…

  • Larger team OK’d for Middlebury rail tunnel project

    Larger team OK’d for Middlebury rail tunnel project

    MIDDLEBURY — State officials on Friday, May 15, gave permission to Kubricky Construction to assemble a full crew for work on the downtown Middlebury rail bridges project, which…

  • Rail tunnel workers wait for COVID tests

    MIDDLEBURY — Kubricky Construction has put 10 employees back to work on the downtown Middlebury rail bridges project, but a company representative told the town selectboard on Tuesday…

  • Downtown Midd rail project resumes next week

    MIDDLEBURY — “Here’s the news we’ve been waiting for.”  That was the happy message from Jim Gish this week when he passed on word that the work on…

  • Bridge project seeks special status to resume work

    MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury selectboard has asked state officials to designate the currently suspended downtown Middlebury rail bridges project as a “critical infrastructure” job, which would allow construction…

  • Downtown Middlebury rail project hits Main St.

    Downtown Middlebury rail project hits Main St.

    MIDDLEBURY — Both pedestrian and vehicular traffic in downtown Middlebury was slower than usual this week, as work on the $72 million rail bridges replacement project jumped from…

  • Middlebury groups work to soften impact of rail project

    MIDDLEBURY — Representatives of the Better Middlebury Partnership (BMP) and the organization called Neighbors, Together on Tuesday told the Middlebury selectboard they have been making good use of…