Some pretty interesting finds in one area. Which was your favorite? Check out these GG1 locomotives sitting in the woods: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h09ofEVvnrc.html
The dining car was my favorite. I think railroading looked more romantic during that Era! Your video was great and I love the stills you put at the end!
Great stuff Jay, I like how the caboose was re-used as an office (or visitor center?). Would make a heck of a mancave😉. Thanks for bringing another great posting(Nik too) 👍
Actually, you can put the caboose and Diner together for your model rr clubhouse. Because the caboose will be the meeting section. And the Diner is already stripped out, making a lot of space, for a large H.O Scale layout!!-! Best wishes!! GOD BLESS 🙌 🙏 ❤ AMERICA 🇺🇸!!!!! GLORY ALLELUIA!!!!! AMEN!!! WED., FEB. 1, 2023, A.D.
Definitivamente un hallazgo muy interesante. Más allá del coche que no entiendo por que no te subiste. Esos camiones de vias son realmente casi un material único que debería ser rescatado y restaurado. Te saluda cordialmente un argentino desde España
Very cool! I think I will have to say that the dining car is my favorite, but I do love that caboose. I always wonder what happened and what the story was behind why they were just left in that particular place, never to run again (like you mentioned about the crane). The pile of railroad spikes was a fun find too, I have some of those hanging on my garden shed. Everything was so interesting JP, thank you so much, great video!
Hey JP - Great video! I live in the area and this is a very cool capture of the artifacts!! Just a bit of info on the dining car, it was involved in a Runaway Train incident on Nov. 11, 2017!! The spot where it sits is where it landed after the event. The CACV Railroad was moving around some of the historic equipment on the WYE, when it and a mail car broke loose from the rest of the cars, rolled about 1/4 mile, crossed the road (cutting its way thru the asphalt) and stopping where it sits today. The railcar was pulled back across the road. They left the dining car where it sits. It was interesting when it happened to say the least. All the tracks in your video were used sporadically up until 2017. The GG1's sat along the NS mainline for years, but NS forced CACV to move them in 2014, to their hidden location today. There is a video posted showing the 2014 move of the GG1's. Search Cooperstown and Charlotte Valley GG1 Move to find the vid. PS- my favorite artifact from there is the dining car!!!
Hey, I liked it all... love railroading and railroading history... the old rolling stock was quite cool, that old diner car and the caboose... cabooses were actually really cool... I seen the inside of a fully functional caboose once... yeah, they are like RVs on rails... the Crain truck looked like an old international, perhaps early to mid 1940s... I believe it would have been diesel powered, but don't quote me on that... the crain was widely used on the railroad, commonly used to rerail rolling stock that had derailed... was also used to hoist rail equipment and materials onto flat cars... they were quite common in the world War 2 era... Anyway, nice video, y'all take care and God bless...
diamonds and wyes are two entirely different things: diamonds are simply crossings by two lines, the rail crossing itself forming a diamond shape. a wye is more than just for turning trains around, it’s also frequently a convergence of a branch line allowing traffic to go in either direction onto the mainline. this is the case in Boston where the connection is used to turn Amtrak trains as well as bring local fertilizer trains off of the MBTA Old Colony Line onto the MBTA Fairmont Line so they can be interchanged by CSX to head out west
The crane you showed has a folding boom that allowed it to be driven down the road from one place to another. I remember seeing one of those type cranes once when I was a kid. They were very top heavy and the truck didn't go very fast, but once they got where they were going, the crane was very efficient. Stabilizers were spread manually by the truck driver/crane operator to keep it stable.
Awesome find Jay, I absolutely love that crane truck. I've never seen anything like that before. I really enjoyed all of the old track, Cabuse, and dinning car. Thanks for another awesome video
What an incredible location. Sad seeing the deterioration of the tracks and all of the equipment, but the story it can all tell. And as always, an excellent job telling the story.
I always known it as a "wye": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wye_(rail) but called it a diamond for the shape of it. I realized a "diamond" has its own technical definition.
The reason why that passenger car is on the opposite side of that house cuz there was a runaway there a few years ago that's why you don't see one step on the other side and one crushed there is a video out there showing that when the gg1 ran away and the crane is a gas-powered which is beyond repair and the two yellow trucks are down there for storage for now and the Red Caboose will be getting moved out there to go up the line to Milford in the line will be getting repaired this summer 2022
Great video. I just don't understand how I just now found your channel , especially cause your a PA dude I live in Philly born raised. I love my state and I can tell you do also. Thanks for the video.
Totally awesome finds! I can't really pick a single favorite either as they are all great in their own way. The rail car and truck crane are in rough shape but could probably be restored if someone was really motivated. The high-railers look to be in great shape, and I'd be curious to know what they were using the caboose for. Thanks for taking us along on this adventure!
I can't believe I missed this one, everything about this video is awesome. Those two vans, the Grumman and utilimaster. Those are the body companies that manufactured the bodies. The Grumman looks like an old GM P chassis, and the utilimaster is most likely a Ford Chassis. Also that crane at the end is really cool. With chain drive they still had a drive shaft and rear differential, but they mounted the differential to the frame because they didn't have universal joint technology yet to allow the axle to move up and down with the suspension. By having a solid mounted rear differential, the chains allow the rear axle to move up and down
Superbly respectful post. In Cranbrook, Southeast BC 🇨🇦 a railway-&-more museum has compete, restored train sets late-1800s to 1950s, Canadian & Canada-US. Visit Cranbrook History Centre online.
Great video! But a Wye (pronounced "Y") is not the same as a diamond. The Wye is used to either turn engines or give access to a branch line from two opposite directions. Diamonds you'll find at junctions of different railroads. Most of them in the past had towers with operators nearby to control the flow of traffic across the diamond. The tower I worked at in Columbus, OH had tracks laid like a # sign. Two mainlines for CSX running North/South and two mainlines for Norfolk Southern going East/West. ✊
That Northwest Engineering Co made all sorts of cable operated heavy equipment before hydraulics were a thing like shovels cranes excavators etc. That crane was most likely put on the truck frame there. I don't know what kind of truck it is but it looks like its from the 30s or 40s and has a diesel engine in it so I'm sure the engine in the crane would be diesel also. Chain drive was preferred by old timers and job types where ground clearance was needed plus a chain was much easier and cheaper to repair than a broken axle so these companies kept making them.
The truck was a mack L mod and was made with crane built on it . To move the crane boom would be removed to transport. Then reassembled on the next job or at the yard.
My home state of New York. Hope one day you can make it to some towns in Westchester County if you haven’t already. I was born and raised in Tarrytown.
JP, a Diamond in railroad terms is where one set of tracks cross another set of tracks. What you had there was a Y, pronounced WHY, A Y is used for turning around an engine where there was no roundhouse.
Hello from the UK. The state of the dining car is really sad and it looks like time is running out to restore it. I must say there is a lot of extremely rotten wood, especially on what we call the railway sleepers and you would call the ties. The whole place looks like somewhere that time has forgotten.
The caboose and the dining car. The reason I like the caboose is because in my hometown of Lincolnton Nc there was a caboose that was used for a chesse shop for a long time when I was growing up. But a couple years ago my hometown sold it to a train museum because it was sitting around just rusting so it got saved.
Fun fact: this car (the dining car) plus one other let loose and crossed the highway in 2017. No one is sure how it happened but they were partially obstructing the highway. One car was removed but this car was left behind. They were originally on the section of track with the cars/ engines from your previous video.
I think the caboose and diner car was cool!! I like the way you inserted drone views in with what you were talking about!! Thanks for sharing!! 💖🚂🛤💙💖🛤🛤💙🚂
Howdy...looks like that crane truck is a MACK, 1930s, they made a lot of chain drive trucks. VERY reliable, but if you had to change that inner tire on the dually rears you had your work cut out for you. Chain drives were very reliable, they had them going back to at least the 19teens. Not a high speed drive train, obviously, but could be very powerful. The earlier ones had solid rubber tires!
I remember the D&H coach used to be across the street obviously before the rails were paved over. As I recall the seats used to be sitting in that old wooden boxcar shown in your other video and was coupled with the D&H coach. Just recently found your channel, great content and really enjoyed this video. The coach is my favorite and thank you for video, great job.
That old caboose was 1 of 20 wide vision cabooses that were built for the RDG READING Railroad.On April 1 1976 10 of the 20 RDG Reading wide vision cabooses went to CR CONRAIL.Conrail classed those 10 cabooses as N-20 Cabooses.The other 10 ex READING wide vision cabooses went to the D&H.The trucks on that caboose look like Barber S2 roller bearing caboose trucks.The older plain bearing or friction bearing trucks were outlawed from interchange on all class 1 railroads in the mid 1990s.If that caboose were ever to be moved.It can be shipped by railon a class 1 because it has roller bearing trucks trucks.That old dining car would have to be shipped by truck.Or get a pair of new trucks.But it is too far gone to withstand the stress from being shipped by rail on the class 1 railroads.
All of it. I'm glad you came across All the equipment. It should be saved and repurposed. You don't find equipment like that anymore. That's why I like East Broad Top Railroad. Please look into it. Have a good evening.
Great video JP. The term wye is pronounced as a why. A wye is used to turn locomotive/s around. A diamond is where two rail lines can cross over each other
Very much enjoyed this video. Nice area, not much rail history but much more than in Wilkes Barre which had much and destroyed.The city had a great rail yard. Not surprised they destroy instead of reconstruct.The Irem Temple was supposed to be renovated some work started but now on hold.
Cool very old American made Rail Road Rails made in Pennsylvania !! History is so cool ....very cool old rail car unbelievably AWESOME !! Shame to see it rotting away out there very very cool to see though !! I really liked that dining car !! But everything was so cool !! Really liked those pictures at the end all those colors just pop such good work JP !! Great video !! 👍👍
You were 3-4 miles from the old roundhouse. No video of that? Or is that yet to be uploaded? Never heard it called a diamond. Always heard wye. Keep doing your thing.
I meant diamond as in the shape, but a diamond has another term for railroading. As for the roundhouse area, it was too late when we arrived and was closed. Will make a separate trip for that.
Great video and learned a LOT !! ...The glass insulators were from telegraph poles ? Didn't know that . Never heard of a "derailer" . Always learn something in a JPVideo : } Lots to like in this explore.Loved the little train trestle/bridge and pile of RR spikes . The diamond turnabout was interesting too. Always love seeing the old train cars .. Lots of fun ..thanks for sharing !
Loved watching this video! Such cool and interesting info. A lot of great history you have documented in your videos! Keep them coming. Hard to choose a favorite! 🥰
When my wife and I moved into our house in the late seventies here in a small town in Indiana. Penn Central used to run through the backyard well clear at the back. north to south then it was sold to Conrail.had a spur line to circle lumber ,and Notre Dame university for the boiler house .. then the line was abandoned. And now it's a walking trail up into Michigan
