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Posted: 7/22/2018 9:59:24 AM EDT
[#1]
Storage, plain and simple.
Demand for railroad transport of goods is still down, AFAIK. Back during the recession, there was a whole string of flatbed cars with a divider parked on a stretch of track for a couple of years. Everyone saw them on their commute every day because the string went over an overpass of a major commuter road. People actually complained about the view because it would give the city a "bad image", never mind that city is a liberal shithole, and the bridge was near one of the shitty parts of that city. They eventually got moved. I still see some cars stored on a track somewhere in the country. |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 10:00:54 AM EDT
[#2]
Sign me up for a free unwanted caboose. Those things are awesome.
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Posted: 7/22/2018 10:02:30 AM EDT
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They have to go somewhere when not being used. City slickers.........ya'll think your so smart. 
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Posted: 7/22/2018 10:03:00 AM EDT
[#4]
You remember the freighters parked during the Great Recession?
Same Thing. Gird yer loins, boys! |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 10:04:26 AM EDT
[#5]
Google earth coordinates?
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Posted: 7/22/2018 10:07:07 AM EDT
[#6]
Where in NH?
If Lincoln, Hobo Railroad or Lafayette dinner train If Conway, Conway Scenic Railroad If Tilton, then there is a station where a lot of people keep private cabooses and other cars. I knew the guy that used to own the 80 foot Pullman Parlor car that was there. There are a few other rail areas in the state, too. I also happen to know of a Great Northern Railway caboose up in Lancaster. 
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Posted: 7/22/2018 10:08:41 AM EDT
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Storage, plain and simple. Demand for railroad transport of goods is still down, AFAIK. |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 10:10:52 AM EDT
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Everything has to be somewhere. |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 10:11:31 AM EDT
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Google earth coordinates? |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 10:11:39 AM EDT
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They are junk and it costs to much to scrap them. So they park them and let them rot. Tjey are all over Colorado. Also, there are lots of lessors right now that will pay for storage of their cars on shortline RRs that don’t always use their lines 24/7. If it’s mixed cars, I suspect they are owned by a big bank and came off lease from another RR. For example, coal cars are being given away at REALLY low lease rates because the cost to store them is higher than to the revenue to lease them out below the bank’s amortization rate. |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 10:12:41 AM EDT
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The bottom of the class MBA' s,work for the Railroads. |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 10:16:07 AM EDT
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Storage, plain and simple. Demand for railroad transport of goods is still down, AFAIK. Back during the recession, there was a whole string of flatbed cars with a divider parked on a stretch of track for a couple of years. Everyone saw them on their commute every day because the string went over an overpass of a major commuter road. People actually complained about the view because it would give the city a "bad image", never mind that city is a liberal shithole, and the bridge was near one of the shitty parts of that city. They eventually got moved. I still see some cars stored on a track somewhere in the country. |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 10:16:27 AM EDT
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Hillary's emails? |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 10:17:47 AM EDT
[#14]
Happens here in Vermont as well.
Suprised you havn't heard about the controversy regarding this practice in the ADK's. ADK Rail Storage |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 10:18:48 AM EDT
[#15]
Hobo central
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Posted: 7/22/2018 10:19:45 AM EDT
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Some RR's still use them as "shove platforms", where long disance reversing is to be done. Gives the conductor or switchman a place to ride. At any rate, Not only did end of train telemetry seal the demise of the caboose, automated wayside hot bearing and dragging equipment detectors located every so many miles ended the need for somebody in a caboose to be on the look out for such.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHHJMEAew6w |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 10:20:02 AM EDT
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Not sure if Canada was able to purchase CSX, but business is a boomin! |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 10:20:05 AM EDT
[#18]
Okay little penguin, touch the place on the map where you saw all the railcars.
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Posted: 7/22/2018 10:21:30 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Hot boxes...put out lots of brush fires thanks to hot boxes...always nice have a long curve to spot them from the caboose... |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 10:32:01 AM EDT
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15+ years ago I was doing some work at the Union Pacific yard in Yermo, CA.
Dozens, if not hundreds of "worn out" locomotives stored in that disused yard. When I returned a few weeks later all were gone. My UP site contact explained that scrap prices had risen above their residual value so off they went to the scrapper. |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 10:39:38 AM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistorySo dude has the technical wherewithal to operate a drone and edit video but uses the term “Railroad train engines”. Was the nomenclature Locomotive too hard to come up with?
Fucking idiots. |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 10:44:26 AM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: So dude has the technical wherewithal to operate a drone and edit video but uses the term “Railroad train engines”. Was the nomenclature Locomotive too hard to come up with? |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 10:45:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: "This Air Force locomotive indicates military and federal involvement." 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcnLtz-V0eQThe Air Force locomotive, by the way, does not indicate US government involvement in the Beech Grove facility. Amtrak bought it as surplus and never got around to having it repainted. The same with the US Army crane. |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 11:57:25 AM EDT
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15+ years ago I was doing some work at the Union Pacific yard in Yermo, CA. Dozens, if not hundreds of "worn out" locomotives stored in that disused yard. |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 12:39:50 PM EDT
[#25]
Sounds like a switch yard. They have them all over the place.
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Posted: 7/22/2018 12:42:47 PM EDT
[#26]
Local railroad around here has shut down their tourist train and stopped hauling lumber on their tracks because they make more money using them as storage for UP or BNSF whichever one runs on the Oregon side.
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Posted: 7/22/2018 12:46:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryYup, came here to post about these...
https://tucson.com/business/local/idle-locomotives-await-business-in-southern-arizona/article_65a8e4f5-0d99-5c20-a18e-06bf3ad54436.html |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 12:46:55 PM EDT
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Are cabooses even used anymore? They've pretty much been replaced by a blinking light and a transponder placed on the rear car of a consist. A caboose would make the ultimate man-cave, though. I was talking to someone and they said they welded them shut though.  I'm not sure I believe him on that one, what's the point even?
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Posted: 7/22/2018 12:50:34 PM EDT
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I was talking to someone and they said they welded them shut though. I'm not sure I believe him on that one, what's the point even? |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 12:54:07 PM EDT
[#30]
Got no way to turn them around and go the other way.
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Posted: 7/22/2018 1:13:09 PM EDT
[#31]
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Where in NH? If Lincoln, Hobo Railroad or Lafayette dinner train If Conway, Conway Scenic Railroad If Tilton, then there is a station where a lot of people keep private cabooses and other cars. I knew the guy that used to own the 80 foot Pullman Parlor car that was there. There are a few other rail areas in the state, too. I also happen to know of a Great Northern Railway caboose up in Lancaster. |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 1:13:41 PM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: We store them until scrap prices come back. Also, we won’t pay to store scrap cars on someone else’s RR. If we don’t have the room, we’ll scrap them to the highest bidder. Also, there are lots of lessors right now that will pay for storage of their cars on shortline RRs that don’t always use their lines 24/7. If it’s mixed cars, I suspect they are owned by a big bank and came off lease from another RR. For example, coal cars are being given away at REALLY low lease rates because the cost to store them is higher than to the revenue to lease them out below the bank’s amortization rate. Thanks. |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 1:15:35 PM EDT
[#33]
Likely casualties of the Obama/EPA war on coal.
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Posted: 7/22/2018 1:23:56 PM EDT
[#34]
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Unused railways are often repurposed for storage. The town I live in is an old railroad town, complete with an old depot, but a train hasn't run here for going on 20-30 years. Yet, there are cars and engines parked all up and down the tracks. |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 1:29:14 PM EDT
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Racists wouldn't let me use the potty. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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What was it like to be in a free state? |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 1:47:38 PM EDT
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There used to be a place on Rt. 12 that had all kinds of junk railcars. It's been a while since I've been up there but I think it was just south of Walpole. Quote HistoryQuoted:
There used to be a place on Rt. 12 that had all kinds of junk railcars. It's been a while since I've been up there but I think it was just south of Walpole. Quoted:
Likely casualties of the Obama/EPA war on coal. Burlington Northern Layoffs |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 1:50:32 PM EDT
[#37]
Storage maybe?
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Posted: 7/22/2018 2:00:08 PM EDT
[#38]
Operation Ruby Helm
the rounding up of all socialists and deep state operatives for deportation to Venezuela Shhhh don't tell them |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 2:00:43 PM EDT
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Racists wouldn't let me use the potty. 
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Posted: 7/22/2018 2:13:05 PM EDT
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A few years ago I noticed a similar situation in northern Michigan miles and miles of box cars grain cars and a few tank cars Whenever there was a road crossing there was a break in the line of cars, but it literally went on for miles |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 2:15:21 PM EDT
[#41]
You ask one too many questions.
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Posted: 7/22/2018 2:29:47 PM EDT
[#42]
It is where they go to die and be offered to the scrap gods, just like the planes in the desert.
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Posted: 7/22/2018 2:40:14 PM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryThat is a lot of idle horsepower...
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Posted: 7/22/2018 2:40:57 PM EDT
[#44]
Dead end is fitting for NH.
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Posted: 7/22/2018 2:57:29 PM EDT
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Dead end is fitting for NH. |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 2:59:59 PM EDT
[#46]
Why are they there? Because everything's gotta be somewhere.
And remember too that two solids cannot occupy the same space at the same time. |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 3:02:24 PM EDT
[#47]
Also, those cars may be there awaiting the graffiti artists to tag them.
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Posted: 7/22/2018 3:02:26 PM EDT
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Why are they there? Because everything's gotta be somewhere. And remember too that two solids cannot occupy the same space at the same time. |
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Posted: 7/22/2018 3:20:33 PM EDT
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Those are the cars that Q will use to funnel the FBHO Admin to the ATL airport so they can be flown during a power outage to Gitmo.
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Posted: 7/22/2018 3:29:10 PM EDT
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There are thousands parked on a track parallel to Route 1 in Illinois south of Danville near Crisman. |
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