by hammerfang
Just out of curiousity I wonder how much one of those costs and what would be needed to make them Amtrak compliant.
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hammerfang wrote:Just out of curiousity I wonder how much one of those costs and what would be needed to make them Amtrak compliant.I'd say somewhere in the 10,000-18,000. Could be less. How can he have over 200? I'm mean that's like the whole 2800-2900 series.
MadManMoon wrote:There are still quite a few stored in original condition (with the addition of grafitti galore) in the Waldorf, Maryland area. There are six visible on a siding on the western side of Route 301 in White Plains (just south of Waldorf), and about 30 (or so) at last check on a few spurs east of Route 301 just north of Route 228/Route 5 intersection (just east of the WalMart, behind the big Cheney Enterprises site).
Not sure if there are any plans to restore/sell/scrap them, but they've been sitting idle for quite a few years now. There was supposed to be a dinner train on the Indian Head Railroad trackage, and I think some of these old coaches were penciled in for that, but those plans died a few years ago.
Hope this helps!
joetrain59 wrote:Stourbridge Line in Honesdale, PA has a few,Nice. And I found that there's 70 ACMU's for sale somewhere...
Shot day after Thanksgiving, 2009.
Joe
Northeastern292 wrote:What's an ACMU? Do you mean MUs intended to run on A.C. catenary? Are any ex-NH 4400 series "Washboards" for sale? They were beautiful in their prime.joetrain59 wrote:Stourbridge Line in Honesdale, PA has a few,Nice. And I found that there's 70 ACMU's for sale somewhere...
Shot day after Thanksgiving, 2009.
Joe
http://www.cabooses4sale.com/passenger.htm
Now I know what to ask my mom (who used to take the 5:08 out of what was then Brewster North on the Harlem Line for years) for Christmas...used Metro-North equipment!
keyboardkat wrote:What's an ACMU? Do you mean MUs intended to run on A.C. catenary? Are any ex-NH 4400 series "Washboards" for sale? They were beautiful in their prime.ACMU = Air Conditioned Multiple Unit (passenger car)
jhdeasy wrote:The Danbury Railway Museum has two Washboards. Sadly, they're being used for storage, as they're in really rough shape. Even to get them in running condition would be tough, as they might have the same hazardous chemicals that will make ever running a GG1 again near impossible.keyboardkat wrote:What's an ACMU? Do you mean MUs intended to run on A.C. catenary? Are any ex-NH 4400 series "Washboards" for sale? They were beautiful in their prime.ACMU = Air Conditioned Multiple Unit (passenger car)
This term was applied to the older lightweight passenger cars, of New York Central heritage, which drew their power from the third rail, that were operated on Metro North's Hudson and Harlem lines until they were displaced by the newer M series cars and retired.
I do not know of any former New Haven 4400 series washboards currently for sale. If I remember correctly, all of these electric multiple unit cars were retired from revenue passenger service on the New Haven line during the 1970s or early 1980s. It's possible a few of these may be in the collections of museums or railroad historical societies, but I suspect most were scrapped, long ago.
I know that I rode NYC / PC ACMU cars in the 1960s and 1970s. I don't remember ever riding a NH / PC 4400 series washboard car.
Northeastern292 wrote:As you can see from the trucks, the graffiti-covered LIRR car in the picture is not a P-72 at all, but was actually a cabless MU electric motor car, which would have been designated an MT-72, for Motor Trailer. Like the other postwar air conditioned MUs, it was modified for diesel territory operation after the advent of the M1s starting in 1969.joetrain59 wrote:Stourbridge Line in Honesdale, PA has a few,Nice. And I found that there's 70 ACMU's for sale somewhere...
Shot day after Thanksgiving, 2009.
Joe
http://www.cabooses4sale.com/passenger.htm
Now I know what to ask my mom (who used to take the 5:08 out of what was then Brewster North on the Harlem Line for years) for Christmas...used Metro-North equipment!
Northeastern292 wrote:The Danbury Railway Museum has two Washboards. Sadly, they're being used for storage, as they're in really rough shape. Even to get them in running condition would be tough, as they might have the same hazardous chemicals that will make ever running a GG1 again near impossible.The ACMU's might make decent tourist railroad coaches, provided they can be pulled behind a locomotive.These are two combines. A few were used by Metro-North for MoW into the 1990s.