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.
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.
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 […]
It seems our favorite resident ‘abandoned’ locomotive still lives.
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.
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.
1884 Route Map of the New York and Manhattan Beach railroad, showing the Greenpoint segment of track.
This past week, the LIRR finally began scrapping their abandoned bogies. So just what the hell is a bogie, anyway?
Examining the long forgotten history of a Central Queens industrial zone, with one abandoned warehouse in particular.
The Woodhaven blvd rockaway beach branch station is an important neighborhood piece of infrastructure that currently sits in ruins.
The Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal (BEDT) was a small railroad located along the Brooklyn waterfront. Their property ran from N.4th street to North 11th street.
In 2002, Me, M, and a reporter climbed up onto the old LIRR Rockaway Beach tracks in Ozone Park.