4 years ago we posted about an abandoned locomotive, a 1950s era neglected engine buried deep behind rows of freight cars at a local bustling yard. This locomotive still exists, and is looking worse than ever.
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Category: Railroad
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Update on 9321, The abandoned locomotive
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Blissville Photo Freight
So one day me and The Chef were puttering around town when we came across a freight sitting in Blissville Yard, completely unattended. At the time, the yard was barely being used, so we went in for a closer look at this curious rail attraction.
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Metro North Graveyard, 2002
In 2002 we stopped by Metro North’s graveyard to poke around the oddball collection of junk commuter train equipment stored and awaiting a date with either the scrappers torch or, less likely, resale and restoration. This collection of locomotives and rail cars represented some of the best and worst in terms of reliability & design.
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Abandoned 1925 vintage Staten Island Rapid Transit car 353 – 2003.
In 2003 me and Rebel SC came across this very long abandoned Staten Island Rapid Transit car.
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Q Cars
In 2001, I came across a set of 3 old wooden subway cars parked in Sunset Park, across the street from the old Davidson Pipe storage facility (which today is a Costco store). As luck would have it, they were parked in a small former SBK yard with no fence. These were the last wooden subway cars in use within the NYC subway system.
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Canadian National Abandoned Railroad Cars in the Bronx
Under a highway in the Bronx, one might find this curious set of seemingly abandoned railroad cars. These aren’t just any railroad cars though.
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Cross Harbor Railroad’s derelict Locomotives
Two New York Cross Harbor Railroad locomotives sat abandoned along 1st avenue in Brooklyn for many years, from roughly the late 1990s until 2006.This is their story.
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R28 cars 7926-7927 at Fresh Pond & Sunset Park in 2006
In the early 2000’s the Illinois Railway Museum bought two R28 ‘Redbird’ subway cars. By 2005 they were stored at the Cross Harbor yard in Sunset Park. Within a few months they were moved up Fresh Pond yard.
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LIC’s Wheelspur Yard / Poultry Market – Past, Present & Future
On the north shore of Newtown creek lays a plot of land with a strangely unique history – a place that was once the Wheelspur Yard, a passenger yard for LIRR trains. After, it became a poultry market and later an office for small businesses and other food distributors. All of these are gone now, and soon this land will become a rail yard once again. In a city where real estate is at a premium – such a full circle transformation is unheard of – especially in an area such as L.I.C. – where the city’s industrial past has rapidly been whitewashed to make way for high priced housing. Mix in the drama of flooding and fire caused by Hurricane Sandy, and you’ve got a unique New York story.
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