State Route 346 (New York–Vermont) both US 7 and VT 346 follow north–south routings through the small village. The two routes meet at a junction southeast of the village center, at which point VT 346 comes to an end. The average annual daily traffic of VT 346 is highest in Pownal, where the route handles around 2,800 cars per day as of 2012, and lowest between Church Street and Dean Road, where it dips to about 1,600 vehicles per day. The portion of the North Petersburgh–Pownal highway within the state of Vermont was originally designated as VT 112 by 1926. Its continuation into the 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;