The two locomotives, formerly owned by the Southern Railroad of NJ, have been purchased by the Reading and Northern Railroad. In August 2017 I photographed them parked on a siding in Schuylkill Haven, PA. They will be fully restored to operation and will be used on the R&N's executive office car inspection train.

Those poor old trains. :( Breaks my heart to see them forgotten and rotting away.

@claraafton1901

2 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@StephentrainboyRailfanbrony

2 жыл бұрын

I hope these poor trains will get restored and donated them to a Railroad museum

Those F7As and that Budd car were sold to Reading and Northern and they'll soon begin another life of service!

@suprememeowmix9613

7 жыл бұрын

Finally, I'm not the only one telling fifty year old women this!

@henryshaw2697

5 жыл бұрын

The one car was retrofitted a/c thanks for the info brwrr

@JsMisc

4 жыл бұрын

Great to hear! What numbers do they carry now?

Sad to see gorgeous old hardware just rotting like that.

@Nash1a

7 жыл бұрын

Not rotting. He just failed to show the shop. These may just be sitting as scrap for parts but several pieces are being actively restored. It is a working railroad.

@Camden-bn7eh

6 жыл бұрын

Anon Nymous well it ain't as easy as ya think to repair this. I mean this things ain't easy to rebuild. I don't think there is anyone left in the world that knows how to make this thing run again

@tomburcher5237

6 жыл бұрын

It'll take a thousand years or more to disappear. Why aren't these trains being cut up for scrap?

@hannanpakthini7221

5 жыл бұрын

Tom Burcher ... That's my idea too. Is it possible for salvage?

@preheatedhail1922

5 жыл бұрын

Camden 4545 because these units were so plentiful, and so recent, along with the fact that most manufacturers used the same tooling on all their locomotives, parts aren’t hard to come by. It’s the regulations set by the government that make it difficult.

Short but sweet! As a kid I loved exploring train yards, I don't have the time now but i thank you for sharing your adventures with us!

@AbandonedSteve

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks as always Jim

SAD to just sit and rot and get trashed by jerks.

@JasontheFolf

7 жыл бұрын

zzzdogutube true since I like trains I agree😭😭😭😢

@SmithConductor

7 жыл бұрын

Jason Houle Railfanning is my Hobby. So sad to see the older Locomotives get trashed like this.

@maxwellkotel8037

7 жыл бұрын

Train engines

@yourlove2554

7 жыл бұрын

they understand the best use of these trash ;)

@PreservationEnthusiast

7 жыл бұрын

These locos are a safety hazard. They should be cut for scrap and melted down without delay.

The white car at the beginning is one of 200 ex-US Army Hospital cars built in 1944, later sold to a number of RRs. The coach interior had "walkover seats" whose seatbacks flip over reversing the seating directions. The little center-cab loco is a General Electric "44-Tonner" switcher.

The two F units were recently moved to Schuylkill Haven, PA, for restoration and operation on the Reading and Northern. And did you see the coach named Tempel at Winslow?

I rode a lot of trains when I was young, similar to these with the seats. It was great. It took time but you got to see so much in the ride!

Steve, thank you again so much for your videos!! Been many years since I was able to explore for myself and yours bring back the excitement and learning of what once was.. This video reminds me of when I was a little kid in Galesburg IL in the early 60s. I would hang around the depot to watch the passenger trains (before Amtrak) and would be so in awe of the F7s just sitting and idling while the train 🚄 was boarding,, so powerful!!! They were definitely the most beautiful locomotives ever built...

1:20 always loved these models ever since I saw one in the movie Silver Streak, just a beautiful loco shame they have to decay like this...

Absolutely fascinating. Had they been here in the U.K, one of the many railway preservation groups would I'm sure have snapped them up! Having only really known EMD's F units in model form, it was extremely enlightening to see them for real including their classic and well-thought out driving cabs. Great work!

Those trains stopped their for their final destination, it would be awesome to see somebody make a tune up on these diesels and get them running again. It's an amazing thing to see something abandoned but then brought back to life.

Great video, there is a lot of railroad history in my family, so I love old trains! I hate the fact that people have to put graffiti on everything though.

@AbandonedSteve

7 жыл бұрын

+Jeff Grier thank you

@JasontheFolf

7 жыл бұрын

Jeff Grier I agree

@MrGigi-dz9cv

7 жыл бұрын

There must be tougher laws against these vandals

@nunyabizness199

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrGigi-dz9cv I think graffiting them would work.. with some nice bright neon green everywhere. Face, arms, legs, hair, except a small open patch in the middle of their back so they can live to enjoy the paint removal..

+Abandoned Steve Great video! Thanks for taking the time to share it with us. As a fellow railfan, seeing these old cars and loco's is very interesting to me. It's such a shame some people have to deface them for whatever sick jollies they get. Keep up the good work!

NOW THIS IS QUALITY YOU-TUBE STUFF I LIKE TO SEE. Dam good video and love the disclaimer. It tells me your mature, responsible, and like the history of certain things. As far as the taggers, my Dad had a saying about some kids nowadays " Some just weren't raised right with respect, and some just weren't beat'n enough."

"This is me walking through a wilderness, pretty much to get to these things" ...*as cars drive by on a paved road* lol please.

@brentmack51

4 жыл бұрын

Little known fact some of our 180' uscgc ran the same powerplant

@DELSTAR1

4 жыл бұрын

Although a few years ago, there was a string of tank cars shoved back into the woods on the old Jersey Central, it is easily accessible with a road trackside much of the way. The NJ Transit Atlantic City line passes over and connects at the Junction.

All these pieces of equipment were stored on the SRNJ (Southern Railroad of New Jersey). I believe the engine that had it's logos blurred out was marked for the CNJ (Central Railroad of New Jersey, long-defunct). A while back most of this equipment was auctioned off to museums and private collectors and taken off site.

@85Stang331

6 ай бұрын

Not far from cape May if I’m not mistaken

I love the F7 in the Rock Island Railroad paint scene! Those were so beautiful when they were new!

Hi Steve thanks for sharing a cool video sad to see these awesome locos in such a state of decay 😢

@AbandonedSteve

7 жыл бұрын

your welcome thanks for watching

Awesome footage dude, gotta love old trains man, time goes by so fast.

I never get tired of seeing old trains! 👍🚂

love exploring these machines!

Great tour .Loved the loco @ 2:40 There is a nice one in Boonton NJ I hear

@AbandonedSteve

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Thats Winslow Junction of the Southern Railroad of New Jersey. A very active line with a storage area. Many pieces are owned by someone else waiting for the finances for restoration. Some pieces in the video have been moved to new homes.

cool place but sad also.. To see those once mighty trains just rot away..Thanks for posting Steve..Stay Safe..

thanks for going and showing the inside of the loco. never saw the inside of one before.

I love EMD locomotives especially first generation ones. As an engineer for CSX formerly Conrail I have had the opportunity to run many different series of EMD and GE locomotives and I'm here to tell you an EMD SD40 is one of the best locomotives ever built, they will pull till they just cant pull any more, they are always a pleasure to run and GP38's and GP40's won't let you down either. As for GE the best I ever ran were the old B23-7's if you got a good one it would pull hard for you, as far as the B36, B40 series of locomotives I would not give you a plug nickel for one, to me they are a total let down of a locomotive. As for GE road locomotives, they are bulky and cumbersome and a pain in the ass to run at low speed to make a nice smooth hitch, they just don't have the smoothness of an EMD, and to be fair newer EMD road locomotives are very similar in the way they run, they should have kept computer control out of it, a good Engineer such as myself :) is totally capable of starting a train smoothly.

@Greenelectra78

4 жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree more! As a lifelong fan of the New Haven RR, what I hear and see of those 50's and 60's generation locomotives, they were tough as hell and nice to operate. Although my favorite is an Alco RS3, the Geeps were cool and the P&W bought a fleet of B23-7s when I retired from Tilcon, hauling our stone all over hell and creation but for sound, i liked the cadence of the 2 cycle Fl9s as opposed to the blowhard Alcos!

Looks like enough spare parts to keep an F unit running.

Another great video Steve, im betting those old V16's still have plenty of life left in them..

Steve... this looks really like a creepy show of trains. good for a horror movie shoot! Love this man! This is the first time ...i'm seeing the diesel engine room...up this close..

Enjoyed this Steve. Live the education about the diesel engine. Sent it to my dad. 😊

@AbandonedSteve

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Former Bessemer and Lake Erie railroad F7A's #727 & 728 built in Feb.-1953. These locomotive last operated in 2000.

love your videos makes me want to go exploring

@AbandonedSteve

7 жыл бұрын

Thank You

I love this place I go alot, I kinda just wanna chill for awhile on the one train but that smell it has would get to me.

I've always been a Train Fan, awesome video. I never knew those were Electric driven. Thank you for posting this one, Enjoyed watching.

@AbandonedSteve

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

You earned a new sub sir... LOVED the SS United States series, and again with this.... Evening shift in the PD has been remedied, i can just watch your videos lol.

Everytime I see old locomotives, I always take a few seconds to think about the history that each piece has. 40 years ago, they were pulling goods or passenger wagons, and to think now they rest after years of service is mesmerizing. Even the passenger wagon, to think thousands of people have used those seats is something small yet special. Regarding grafitti, I usually adore the art especially when its done on huge murals, however dinky tags on old locomotives is a lack of respect.

Thanks for battling the wild for our viewing pleasure

Nice Rock Island find on that Black and Red loco. I love old Rock Island locos and rolling stock. The Rock was a rolling museum of equipment.

@richierich2048

4 жыл бұрын

Both units are ex-Bessemer & Lake Erie units.

When i was a kid, 6 or7 years old, to see the inside of the cab where the Enginer sits, was like a thrill never forgotten! steam or diseal, it was like someone showed you the inside of a U F O! AN Enginer let me sit in the seat one time, and i was happest kid on earth!

The insides don’t look in too bad a shape. I’m sure the Illinois Railway museum would love this stuff!

Great vid Steve, love them old trains, it's a shame they're left like that.

@AbandonedSteve

7 жыл бұрын

+jwrappuhn71 thank you

Very unique find Steve! I enjoyed the video :)

I'm nearing retirement working at GE Erie. I watch locomotives fly every day! (via crane lift). Sadly, domestic locos aren't built in Erie anymore, only international.

@cdavid8139

7 жыл бұрын

It is sad. Unions drove the business to Dallas

@janetelizabeth

6 жыл бұрын

Soon . . GE will not be building ANY .. . . anywhere.

I've run switchers for 18yrs. In plants on the Texas coast. Got burnt out a couple of years ago. Also ran some more modern hybrids like you described.

One of the diesel units is an old NYO&W unit, from the storied "Old & Weary" line abandoned in 1957.

@dondesnoo1771

7 жыл бұрын

Reg mason232 only ow.unit left belongs in their museum in NY.

@richierich2048

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, they're ex-Bessemer & Lake Erie 727 and 728.

@ralphtomlinson4520

3 жыл бұрын

The Old and Weary never had any F-7s. It had FTs and F-3s. It also had NW-2s and GE 44 tonners.

Wonderful channel. Good job! Sensitive pictures. Thanks. Congrats

Cool footage, thanks for posting.

@AbandonedSteve

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mike

@samderrick4730

7 жыл бұрын

I'm not going out with my friends anymore because they don't know how to use the internet

It's sad how they don't resurrect these trains. It's good to bring back the glory days of these trains. Plus would be epic.

great explore I love old trains

@AbandonedSteve

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Thank you for the video. I see so much beauty, and more potential beauty! And I agree with you. The graffiti is very saddening.

I love trains!! Thanks Steve pretty cool!!

@AbandonedSteve

7 жыл бұрын

Your welcome and Me too :)

@tomburcher5237

6 жыл бұрын

These old cabooses would sell! Make a backyard clubhouse for the kids!

I built a model of a switcher motor once. Saw the real thing operate at Kaiser Steel in Fontana one day. Pretty cool.

Really enjoyed this video....would like to see a caboose so I will check to see what you’ve done. Thanks. I love old trains, trucks and airplanes.

Great Video :) Sad to see them end up like that :/

Loved it good job as usual............

@AbandonedSteve

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you

your videos are great. its sad to see these old girls in this state, Its too bad people think they need to make it worse with the paint etc.

I wish if the people that own that territory have the money to would fix the engines and rolling stock and the track to have a tourist railroad with a vintage aesthetic. That would be very nice ☺

I've seen vids where people turn the passenger cars and cabooses into little homes. The caboose ones look pretty awesome.

Great Video! I Subscribed

While I am more of an aviation buff, I have a soft spot for trains as well. Frankly, I had always thought that EMD's F Units were among the best-looking diesel's out there. Sadly, by the time that I began to appreciate trains, rail travel in the US was, for the most part, a thing of the past, well, save for Amtrak. Your disclaimer is spot on, exploring abandoned property without permission is asking for trouble and not only from authorities. Gangs and other sketchy individuals tend to adopt these trains, old buildings, etc.... as their own property and are more than willing to protect what they perceive as their turf.

they certainly look cool.

Interesting video!

very cool, thanks

Interesting stuff. I do this kind of thing frequently.

steve where is this I'm interested in the two Pullman cars

That was really a great video, I got to drive a little switcher engine like the one you showed in this video at a saw mill in Alabama on a closed circuit track about 20 years ago and have been in love with old trains ever since. It's to bad the kids have to bust out the windows and tag them all up like that. It's to bad someone with some money and a big piece of property someplace can't restore those old engines and wagons But like many other great pieces of American history the are left to die in rusty silence with only the ghost of the men that use to operate and work on them to keep them company now along with the occasional tagger to deface them further with no care or respect for the important role the great machines played in the ongoing development of our still young and growing nation. It really makes me sad to see these forgotten relics of our past treated with such a low level of respect and dignity.

Very Cool!

Nice to see that double decker passenger car that is cool 😎

Please, someone, contact the owner and ask him to give this beautiful F7 to a museum.

So sad, those beautiful locomotives deserve to be restored and put back in service.

@StephentrainboyRailfanbrony

2 жыл бұрын

Me too

It appears from the condition of the control stands in those F units that one was still usable and the other just for MU horsepower or parts. Paint can cover alot of sins. Lol. The prime movers look usable and those 645 prime movers are tough!

I've always loved that type of locomotive design, does anyone know why the F units got porthole windows like that?

@RACaptialRegion

7 жыл бұрын

in contrast to just square shaped?

@ryananderson9894

7 жыл бұрын

+William Baker It was designed in the 50's. That should be explanation enough.

@SmithConductor

7 жыл бұрын

Ryan Anderson F Units were designed in the Late 30's

@Joshie2256

7 жыл бұрын

Probably because round windows are stronger and much of the strength of the car-body chassis is in the body. Square corners lead to stress risers (concentrations of stress) which leads to cracking. Go read up on the de Havilland Comet for problems with large square windows in stressed areas.

@adrianplmerian

7 жыл бұрын

William Baker It's E9 I think

very cool!

So very cool

The 2 F units now belong to the Reading and Northern along with the RDC you saw in the video. They are going to be restored for passenger service on the Reading & Northern from what I hear. The F units are in Tamaqua,Pa, and the RDC is in Pottsville, Pa for now till they are restored.

great video, some locos like that are still in youse up north here in Main, lets hope they get saved, the cars looked in good shape,

@AbandonedSteve

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@mitchellhogg4627

7 жыл бұрын

David Frobel love your spelling of *use

@SmithConductor

7 жыл бұрын

David Frobel Cool I've always wanted to see trains in Maine. They have many old ones used from the 50's to the 80's.

@bradsimpers7708

6 жыл бұрын

David Frobel they might. They where recently donated to a museum.

I did not know they were actually driven by electric motors.Thank you.

@AbandonedSteve

7 жыл бұрын

Your welcome :)

@janetelizabeth

6 жыл бұрын

Obviously not a railroad fan(atic)

I hope it is preserved in a museum

Loved this video, my Dad was an Engineer for the P&LE Railroad which sadly was bought out by a bigger Co! He would take us to work with him and I loved to and just see how high we were up and such! Thanks brought back good memories seeing these!

Don't worry about the taggers, if anything paint will slow down the rust. Worry about vandals and scrappers! So far these seem pretty intact and complete.

know exactly where that is lol. neat you climbed in them but be careful they are owned and looked after somewhat.

This is SOOOOO SADD!!!! These locomotives (and rolling stock) should be refurbished (at least to a visual standpoint) & placed in museums!!! They are part of history- how are our grandchildren & future generations going to know what these beauties were if we don't preserve them???

Brilliant filming skill

@AbandonedSteve

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Cool trains 😎

Two of the locomotives are from the long abandoned NYO&W. One is a GE 44 ton, the other is an EMD F-3. The "Old & Weary" was a very storied railroad that was totally abandoned in 1957. These are probably the last two engines of this line to exist- it is a shame to see them just rot away. I am guessing this was to be a railroad museum- but it failed.

@dondesnoo1771

7 жыл бұрын

Reg mason232 I heard only switcher actually ow .other repaint .ow f3s scrapped by bank.

@suprememeowmix9613

7 жыл бұрын

No. It's an F unit. And B&LE.

@guitarplaya608

6 жыл бұрын

That 44 ton diesel is being actively restored at Steamtown NHS

@henryshaw2697

5 жыл бұрын

We got the sleeper car nise inter

@henryshaw2697

5 жыл бұрын

@@guitarplaya608 we got your pax car

I love it when Diesel's decay

None of this equipment is abandoned. There is a shop less than 200 yards from this locomotive that is actively working to restore some of these. Likely some are just here for parts but they are NOT abandoned. It is a working railroad and I've seen them out moving local freight. And as to the "wilderness" he trekked through to get here, well, maybe he should have driven down the nice wide street that's on the other side of the engine.

Hey Steve, awesome video! Where is this located exactly? +1 subscriber

Love the education.

you know you guys and gals. why doesn't steve take us on one of his adventures? I have insurance and steel-toe boots. i'm a retired foundry man. and worked 4 yrs on the Soo Line Railroad. I have all safety gear.

It’s sad For one of these locomotives and rolling stocks rusted away on abandoned train track and I hope These locomotives and rolling stocks in this video Will probably get restore and probably donate them to a railroad museum

what is in the noses of those F's? i see the door to it in the cab, and the door to it on the front of the loco, but never seen footage of what is in there.

When I grew up in PA . Most of the Engines were steam. The passenger cars had windows you could open . When the track went around a corner the smoke would come pouring into the passenger cars . Heaven forbid someone left a window open while going through a tunnel !!

The EMD units should be in a museum

The most unfortunate and destructive invention of mankind was the aerosol paint can.

@AbandonedSteve

7 жыл бұрын

Now this is a comment I like!

@kieranbricker3278

6 жыл бұрын

Abandoned Steve turn one of those coaches into your cottage and if u find a steam engine turn it to your camp fire in the coal pot

@biskeoat9337

6 жыл бұрын

Or ironlak

@SaimoreFilms

6 жыл бұрын

I live near here we drive past it everyday

@algrayson8965

6 жыл бұрын

On my travels I saw an old F-unit and B unit that had been made into a dentist's office.

guys go to 2:17 and pause if you look in the distance there is a NS train sitting back there.

yowza, bumping around and what a really cool suprise. think there are quite a. few abandond. engines on the west coast, the two gray deisels look like ontario & western paint scemes, I'm goofy on history, rail operations& etc, its a sickness

@suprememeowmix9613

7 жыл бұрын

The Tonner is, the F unit isn't, it's BL&E.

Great video, it was nice seeing the old caboose again, a pity about the graffiti. Just subscribed, I eagerly await new videos!