Discussion relating to the operations of MTA MetroNorth Railroad including west of Hudson operations and discussion of CtDOT sponsored rail operations such as Shore Line East and the Springfield to New Haven Hartford Line

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  by DutchRailnut
 
It looks Like Sperry rail service 125 is headind for torch.
The car arrived at shelter rock rd workshop about a month ago under its own power and was stripped of equipment and numbers painted out.
Its now sitting outside in their little yard probably ready to be hauled to scrapper about 1 1/2 block north.
Sperry has scrapped a few cars before last year and one car was donated to Danbury railway museum.

  by Otto Vondrak
 
SRS 118 and another car were scrapped in Danbury last year. Sperry is moving towards using hi-rail trucks for all its inspection services. A hi-rail and a motel room is much more flexible than a railcar that has to be parked on a siding and moved out of the way of opposing traffic.

-otto-

  by mainline
 
SRS 128 is testing on the LIRR. I'm not sure if it went back to Danbury from last years testing. There were sightings of it being moved around the LIRR with no testing scheduled. With LI's traffic problems it wouldn't be beneficial to use a hi-rail truck.