Abandoned trains -- Chile (and beyond)

[Cripes A Mighty]

I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. I live near the UP mainline that runs between Cheyenne and Denver.

LUCKY! Way cool. Our Big Boy UP 4018, has had her running gear all torched up. She will return to the rails though not under her own power, they are moving the museum here in Dallas to the nearby city of Frisco.

[Tom Crawford]

Bottom line..they're all JUST P-47 Thunderbolt food.......

[Chris Brame]

Good stuff! I like trains, but I'm not really a trainspotter or railfan; however, I do know when a good photo op presents itself:



West Paducah, KY October '07. My grandfather, Thomas W. Cassibry Sr., was a machinist for the Illinois Central in Paducah.

Just to keep the airplanes in the topic, when you go to the March ARB museum in Riverside, CA, be sure to check out the Orange Empire Railway Museum in nearby Perris. If you pace yourself, you can do both in one day.

[mustangdriver]

I have been to old horseshoe curve and I live just a few miles from Conrail yrads in pittsburgh.

[Cripes A Mighty]

Bottom line..they're all JUST P-47 Thunderbolt food.......

Thats one of the funniest things Ive heard. Very nice.

[bdk]

Some of my train pics, Promontory Point, UT

Oh, well I can top that easily!



As for the local static 4-8-8-4 population...



I remember a great train museum in Green Bay when I was a kid. I remember that everything was pretty rusty though, can't imagine what's still left!

http://www.nationalrrmuseum.org/en-us/default.aspx

[Robbie Roberts]

A few miles south of me, in Hammonton, NJ, there is some kind of open rail yard- more like a few associated sidings, with a bunch of old work cars and passenger cars, look like they go back to the forties, just sitting there, apparently abandoned... I drove past them a couple times s..l..o..w.. I was intrigued by the markings on one car- "Texas-Mexico Railway Company"(or something very similar- Texas-Mexico was quite prominent) As the nearest thing we have up here to Texas is, well Texas, about 2500 miles away, it makes me wonder how or why that car came up here!

Robbie

[Second Air Force]

Here's a link to some SAC related rolling stock:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_D ... oad_Museum

It's been a number of years since we stopped through there, but they had three or four SAC railcars that were in fair condition. It seems they also had a Diesel switch engine that had been assigned to a USAF base. I may have taken a few photos of the SAC stuff, but have no idea what would have become of them.

[Hal B]

And if I ever get back to Alaska, I've got to make the trip to see these things...
http://americanroadside.blogspot.com/20 ... sting.html

[Second Air Force]

That's a remarkable link, Hal.

While we're at it, the Durango to Silverton Colorado narrow gauge excursion is a great way to spend a day.
http://www.durangotrain.com/
We rode up and back in the early nineties, and it was a spectacular trip. Scenery, rolling stock, and steam locomotives, all fantastic. The only drawback to the trip was getting our then-new car clean after being parked near the roundhouse for two days!

[Tulio]

I have some good shots of abandoned trains; I will have to dig them from the pile, but eventually I will post them here.

For the time being, and just because these are photos of trains:

I shot these and many others, in October 2005







And these two, from the Durango & Silverton, in 2006:





Saludos,


Tulio

[Robbie Roberts]

Remember the C.W. McCall song "The Silverton Train"? I seem to recall that being the title, have to check my "C.W. McCall- Convoy" LP...

Just reminded of it because of the Silverton train photo.

woo woo.

Robbie

[Second Air Force]

There is a Jimmy Stewart western that has him riding a flatcar on the Durango/Silverton route. The film footage shows one of the sheer cliffs that the roadbed was constructed on, called the "High Line" section IIRC.

Thanks for the photos, Tulio. I really want to get back out there for another round trip now!

[Jerry O'Neill]

Paint it up in NY, NH & H RR colors!
Not one Steam Loco from the New Haven remains anywhere.
My grandfather was one of the Vice-Presidents of the New Haven Railroad so it's in my blood!
Jerry

[Cripes A Mighty]

And Tulio shows up and his pics blow everything else out of the water.

Very very nice.....drool