Hemi, The following are just for you!! All cars sitting on secondary siding at Plainview, Co. PSCX coal hoppers, after major derailment on Moffat: Three of seven damaged cars seen here: Remaining four seen here: Entire string seen here. Gons carry what remains of trucks. As best seen from opposite side:
When was this? I was just up there last Friday! Beautiful afternoon light, to boot. It's usually overcast in the late afternoon.
This was before the SP buyout, IIRC. Now, PSC is the same as Excell Energy. Which also dates it quite a while back.
OOOPS is right...in this case...because of its remote location... (Feather River Canyon, near the Honey Moon Tunnels)...an apparent derailment sometime before this pic was taken in May of 1982...I guess because of its remote location...its easier to just leave them there...rather then pay the expense of a crane and crew etc...to pick them up.
That may be a photo of the Cross Harbor RR barge and cars that sank in New York's East River on Sunday. The following article was posted on the 1/10/06 edition of the Trains Magazine Newswire Website..... " Freight car barge sinks in New York’s East River "BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A barge operated by the Cross Harbor Railroad sank as it was being loaded with freight railroad cars at a pier in Brooklyn Sunday, causing several cars to fall into the East River, according to a story in the New York Times. "The barge, docked at the Brooklyn Marine Terminal near Cobble Hill, began taking on water about 9:30 a.m. as workers moved 10 freight cars loaded with cocoa beans onto its deck. No one was injured, but by 3:40 p.m., the barge and five of the railroad cars were completely submerged in the river, said Petty Officer Third Class Daniel Bender of the U.S. Coast Guard. "Investigators determined that the barge and its cargo were not an environmental threat, Petty Officer Bender said."
DHVM Website - Collection of Juan M. Celorio http://www.trainweb.org/dhvm/photographs/diesel/pa/photographs_pa_16.htm
Sadly, there's a line of diesels just like these: Ex-CN GP40W 513, missing a generator and bodywork around it (not to mention a few other things), Waterville, ME, November 2005. Guilford has a dead line full of clapped-out GP40s and GP35s missing parts due to damage, cannibalization, etc. at the ex-Maine Central shops.
I had heard of stories like this, but I was always skeptical of them until I saw this with my own eyes..................
