Contact Green Mountain Club. Trails generally closed until June due to mud and snow melt. Not a good time to plan a hike. Further south in New England should be ok.

Go for it! You will do fine here as Americans live to eat and eat. Come in the late spring and you will love the summer and Autumn. Winter is only 5.5 months long and most days are pretty nice. You will want to be active outside as much as possible. -28F may happen a few days but it makes 20F seem warm. Stowe / Waterbury/ Morrisville are busy year round and really nice people. Skiing, snowmobiling, Mountain Biking, etc .Housing is a challenge but you will be working all the time. That is how people survive, work. The work culture may surprise you.

Existing rail right of ways either don’t exist or have been converted to bike paths. This is true through-out New England and elsewhere. Rail had its day in the mid 1800s.

So you want to build a train station, parking., access roads, an electric catenary, a power sub station and put this on an easement built through town with flashing safety lights. Is this the idea?