Windsor - Least Used Amtrak Station in Vermont

I moved from NYC to Vermont. I love it here and have absolutely no plans to leave.

im watching this while on the Vermonter to Windsor. how meta.

Good news for Northampton is that starting this fall they are essentially going to be cutting the road width in half by doubling the side walk and adding 2 protected bike lanes on each side of Main St.

My favorite part of this was when I got an ad for Jesus right before Miles talked about Satan’s Kingdom.

It’s astonishing that Vermont has a surprisingly high number of Amtrak stations in relation to its total population while New Hampshire only has 3 (edit: 4) that aren’t even located in its most populous cities… I think NH takes the cake as the most anti-rail state in New England!

The dinosaur footprints is very literal. There's rocks with actual fossilized dino footprints in it that you can go look at. There's also some south of there in CT, the CT River Valley is apparently fertile ground for this sort of thing.

Someday I vow I’m going to drag you to the 1282-foot Hartland Covered Bridge in New Brunswick, but until that happens, this was a pretty nifty time too ;)

Never mind more frequent services from all those other places you mentioned, it would be nice if we could get directly to Vermont from Boston

Perfect timing for it to snow right after having a magical dining experience in such a beautiful station building! What a neat little town! Definitely wild that Vermont was its own country at one point! And nice to see ✨Worcester, Massachusetts✨ make a return from the Boston diner video! Windsor was the first in Vermont to break ground for the railroad as they got a train station/depot in January 1849. The station building you ate at is from 1901 because the original 1849 building burned down. Like Stone Mountain in Georgia, Mount Ascutney is a monadnock or an isolated hill or mountain that rises above a relatively flat area! Monadnock is derived from an Abenaki word that loosely translates to "mountain that stands alone". Windsor was chartered as a town in July 1761 and settled in August 1764. As you saw, Windsor is home to the American Precision Museum which was the first factory in the US to make precision interchangeable parts. Even though Windsor was no longer the capital of the Vermont Republic after it joined the US in 1791, it was still the capital of the state until 1805 when Montpelier was selected due to its central location.

So Yankee Candle is (as of 2023) headquartered in South Deerfield, however it was founded in South Hadley in 1969 (obligatory nice) when Michael Kittredge II (from Holyoke) created his first scented candle from melted crayons as a gift for his mother for Christmas. Then his neighbors wanted to buy them and so he produced them in larger quantities. The company itself was founded with help from Donald MacIver and Susan Obremski, who were high school friends with him. He sold Yankee Candle to Forstmann Little & Co. in 1998 and stepped away from the candle industry. He first started changing hands in 1993 because of a cancer scare. As of 2023, it's a part of Newell Brands. For a college course, his son Michael Kittredge III was tasked to create and promote a product, so naturally they chose candles. He talked to his father about expanding it into an actual business, and so they discovered a building in Bernardston and co-founded Kringle Candle before Christmas 2009.

I went out of my way to go to the Windsor Diner once a few years ago. It's great!

Why is this my favourite content? It’s like if I embarked my nerdiness and had friends

13:33 That church was the studio of the late artist who made the bronze Ralph Kramden statue at Port Authority bus station.

Year over year

Yes! My favorite series is back w/ Jackson!

Welcome to Miles in Candles

10:47 "Jeff's Rubbish removal" on the rubbish bin, what a grand coincidence. I believe Geoff Marshall might like to have a word about that, lol.

The beautiful lake is Silver Lake in Meriden CT - great for kayaking and foamers on kayaks taking photos of trains.

2013 Street view of Windsor shows the platforms are just paved paths along tracks. So there were some significant upgrade to the platforms since then.

I ate at this diner the last time I was in NYC. Great place.