Vermonters are headed to the fair. It’ll only take forty hours to get there!
A trip to Chicago...

People were climbing aboard a train in Bellows Falls on this day in 1893. More than forty hours later, those passengers would arrive at the Chicago World's Fair.

Everyone was excited to witness first-hand the marvels of electricity. Electric fountains and incandescent lights were one of the fair's main attractions. United States Vice President Levi P. Morton, a native of Shoreham, Vermont, had dedicated the fair, and Vermont had a pavilion to promote the state and its products.

Those boarding the train would return to Bellows Falls ten days later via the many miles of Central Vermont and Grand Trunk rail lines.

Image courtesy Vermont At The World's Fair by H. H. McIntyre.

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