FINAL LINE-UP! (ACMU's stored on runner by old GM Yard)

If you go to Tarrytown to the overpass that used to lead to the GM Factory, you will see something you thought you would never see again, nor ever will see again.

On the siding to the north, are about twenty "1100" series MU cars, lined up waiting for their next role in history, either as museum pieces, coaches, or scrap.

What makes this lineup so unusual is this is probably the final time in all our lives, that we will see TWENTY NEW YORK CENTRAL passenger cars, coupled up in one string. Regardless of their paint, they were built for and run their entire careers on New York Central and the rails of it's successors. For those of you born after January 1969, and even before who cannot remember such a sight, this is as close as you will ever get. For me, it was an unexpected surprise. First, I realized why those cars were there. Then the silver lining emerged, as the string of MUs seemed almost as endless as the New York Central's trains seemd to be.

Now here's one for the "Experts". When was the last time that 20 New York Central passenger cars were coupled up that weren't headed to Mexico?

Dieter.

Well Mexico or in this case to Pennsylvania for scrap.
all these cars are rendered inoperable including cutting of tractionmotor leads and removal of certain components.
here is post I put on Mertro North Forum:


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The string you saw were either at the Croton East yard (8 cars)
1114-1126-1136-1140-1160-1163-1169-1178

Or 23 cars at Chevy yard in Tarrytown :
1138-1144-1154-1159-1172-1183-1125-1149-1164-1166-1168-1182-
1185-1105-1109-1115-1118-1121-1130-1131-1133-1145-1156
both these groups are ready to be shipped to scrapper and are disabled.

Cars held for winter emergencies are at North white Plains and are :
1100-1102-1107-1110-1113-1117-1119-1120-1122-1123-1124-1127-
1128-1132-1135-1141-1143-1146-1148-1150-1153-1155-1157-1158-
1165-1167-1171-1175-1179-1180

Minor Correction;

There are TWENTY THREE units on the siding.

Where are they going? Did Danbury or Western New York get any of them?

Dieter

No all 23 are going to scrapper, and are disabled per CSX, including that traction motor cables are cut.
Danbury so far has not requested any. and last I heard no other museums had requested any.