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(The Associated Press circulated the following on June 10, 2011.)

RUTLAND, Vt. — Transportation officials from Vermont and New York are studying the possibility of adding passenger rail service to parts of southwestern Vermont and adjacent areas of New York.

The two states are using a grant from the Federal Railroad Administration to look for the best route to add rail service between western Vermont communities without passenger service such as Bennington and Manchester and Albany, N.Y., and Saratoga Springs.

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