Vermont Route 44 the remaining surface-treated gravel stretches in 1972. The state resurfaced the chipseal sections with bituminous concrete in 1983. The town of Windsor regained maintenance duties on VT 44 from the VT 44A intersection to the town center boundary in February 1987 at the same time the state took over maintenance of Back Mountain Road, which became VT 44A. Vermont Route 44A (VT 44A) is a auxiliary route of VT 44 that runs from US 5 and VT 12 in Weathersfield north to VT 44 in Windsor. The highway heads north from its oblique intersection with the U.S. Highway and state
DB Class VT 12.5 and, after its conversion, designated as the VT 12. From 1968 the VT 12 bore the EDV class number 612, the VT 12 was redesignated as the Class 613. After initially operating from Cologne and Dortmund the DMUs were based for many years at the Hamburg-Altona railway depot and, from 1982, stationed at the Brunswick depot. The VT 12 was derived from the express DMU, the VT 08. Externally it differed from the VT 08 only in that it had centre doors and wider end doors. On delivery the four first trainsets also differed in also having 3rd class accommodation;