The LIRR caboose #2 (the one with the cupola) looks red, but it started life orange. The paint scheme dates from the early '60s. It should be in a museum. How did all that equipment get to Ohio?! Why are there abandoned Metra cars in the California desert? Unsolved railroad mysteries!
The #2 was part of the collection of the Oyster Bay Railroad Museum. Unfortunately, there isn't enough room for everything and was let go for scrap. (#1 is still preserved). Much of the equipment came out on flatcars. The reason they are in Ohio for scrapping is because of the "Vitamin A" (asbestos) in the cars and the liability of scrapping locally is too much of a hassle.
That is Long Island Railroad N5B caboose 2 in a faded red livery that had been applied by the Friends of Locomotive 35 preservation group. The orange LIRR livery underneath appears to be resurfacing. Genuinely surprised to see No. 2 here as had been donated by the MTA/LIRR for preservation. It was stored in Garden City, New York for several years after the Locomotive 35 preservation group repainted it.
@@DTD110865 : You are correct. This caboose was moved by the LIRR from Morris Park to the Garden City Mitchell Field Secondary where it was safely stored on a siding for several years under the preservation group’s care. I am surprised to learn this caboose has been allowed to (cosmetically) deteriorate so badly and been relegated to a scrap line 500+ miles away in Ohio.
I remembered riding those subway R32s & R42s. Mainly the R32s on the E line. I’ve also rode on some M3s in the past. Sad to see more LIRR M3s getting scrapped, but thankfully they currently have a little more than 100 cars in service. I also saw a M1, a few M7s, P72 cars which was a real surprise and even a B-Unit! The cabooses were cool as well. They have 1 in service mainly used by the Loram Rail-Vac. Sad to see these old timers in their final resting place.
Great catch guys!!! I remember riding in those LIRR cars back in the day when I lived on Long Island. Left from Penn Station in NYC and Flatbush Ave. LIRR station in Brooklyn, NY. Sad to see the caboose's (cabeese?) abandoned like that.
The M7 7019 @11:06 derailed on July 21, 2018 at the West Side Yard. It was used for spare parts until now. My current project is right next door to the Bay Ridge Yard, and I watched the old LIRR and subway car bodies getting loaded onto the NYNJ car float to be ferried to the Greenville Yard.
I like the double-take action at the Diamonds. I wish I could get one of those Cabs to my house. It would fit just right in my Backyard. Thanks for posting.
I read Trains magazine, and join groups that have news letters. In the east it's Railpace Magazine. Museums are businesses and they fail sometimes like all business . Small ones can't take a bad year. Like any small business. Baldwin Kansas is not doing well I'm told. That might be in your area. Looking at your videos. Of CPKC.
Noblesville, Indiana outside Indianapolis train museum forced to close , due to lease not being renewed. The local government was influenced into making the track bed into a bike way. I hope I have those details right. It was a few years ago. One other Indiana operator just had the same issue. But the local port authority held the lease and pulled it on the tourist RR. @@alcopower5710
What industry did this present day scrapyard used to be? Looks like a pretty big operation judging by all the foundations as well as the massive structures still standing. I’ve often wanted to spend some time between Ashtabula and Youngstown snooping around that line. My grandfather, who sadly died weeks after I was born in 1960, retired from the NYC in ‘59 as an engineer, and this was the line he spent his career on. I have “last run” pictures of him on some flavor of geep (9?) with what appears some type of express car behind the locomotive, but I can’t see enough of it to tell whether it was a passenger run or what. From what I’ve been able to find out, I guess there was actually 2 different lines between Ash. & YT, a high grade and a low grade, that made the endless southbound movements of iron ore easier??? Thanks for posting!
With all due respect, why is it that train buffs automatically default to the description "GE 44 tonner" when seeing a centercab diesel locomotive? The unit in question is probably a 65 or 80 ton GE. Also it looks as if the unit in question is in use by this scrap outfit.
Yup... Likely an 80 tonner. The 65's were basically 44 tonners with a "front porch", or walkway ahead of the front of the hoods. The one in the video has the lengthened hood of the 80 tonners, though later 65 and 80 tonners were basically the same locomotive, with the 80 tonner having thicker deck plates to boost the weight to 80 tons.
I live less than 17 miles from where those subway cars are being kept and did not know they were there that is Lake road in Ashtabula ohio and you can't see behind that building from the road good enough to tell what they are.
Those could be the same subway cars depicted in the popular 1970's TV show intro of Welcome Back Kotter with graffiti covered subway footage from mid to late 1970's New York.
There is any speed limit on that cross railway intersection. In Italy we had 6 km/h limit. X intersections doesn't exist anymore on Italian infrastructure
Ex-Western Maryland FA2 ex-LIRR 608 Power Pack modified into Power Car 3100 for use with then new bilevel coaches in 1991. Sent for scrap in 2018. Info is online. Tried to post the link earlier.
Wow, Remember R32s my whole life, lastly on the J. Surprised to see later M series (LIRR/Metro Noth)???as well...M3 not surprised. R42s rusty junk by the end😂
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-j-AiHs_CsJY.htmlsi=vGaUo2xEE97__B-V Until recently, there were 2 Metro-North F10s and 1 FL9. Probably scrapped by now.
