Passengers head underground for the very last time.
It's the end of the line, under North Avenue.

The last passenger train was passing through Burlington's north end on this day in 1938...underground.

In 1861, some 77 years earlier, Daniel C. Linsley had been hired as a civil engineer to construct a 340-foot tunnel under what would become North Avenue in Burlington. It was a necessary component to handle the intense rail travel in the Queen City.

At its height, the railroad tunnel was used by eleven different trains each day, delivering passengers to their destinations. The public found other methods of transportation in the early 1900s, particularly cars and buses. By 1938, the railroad tunnel saw no more passenger trains.

Image courtesy Central Vermont Railroad Volume One, 1830-1886 by Robert C. Jones.

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