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Railroad stuff

New England’s most abandoned, least photographed diesel locomotive.

Deep in the woods of Connecticut sits the ghostly remains of a rare eighty year old abandoned locomotive. It has rarely been photographed, despite sitting in the same location for nearly twenty years now.



Scrap or Save? Albany’s long abandoned locomotives face a pivotal moment

For over 30 years a small collection of trains sat abandoned just south of Albany, New York. Their time in obscurity has come to an end. In this video I revisit the site, show recent developments and head back to the office to detail what we’ve seen, what we’ve lost, and what will hopefully happen […]



The BHRA and Brooklyn Navy Yard’s abandoned trains

The case of the disappearing trains.



From Conrail to Crusty: NYC’s touring abandoned locomotive.

It seems our favorite resident ‘abandoned’ locomotive still lives.



Build Everything: Queens Needs Transit.

Over the years, we’ve published a few catty articles on this site that attacked some poorly thought out new transit ideas running through Queens. So let’s be clear: we need to build all of it.



Brooklyn’s long forgotten railroad, Part 2

LIRR railfan special passes under the present day M line on Myrtle Avenue on September 9th, 1956. Photo by Bill Rugen (via Steve Lynch’s LIRR history site, reposted w/permission) Unless you ask a real old timer, most people in Ridgewood have no idea a railroad ran right through the middle of the neighborhood.