Scrapped Alcos

Someone posted recent pics or a video on Facebook.

EDIT

2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnNPAKUaUVg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oheIbU99Lg0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Looks like a big ol' negative.

Hi,

Perhaps they are at Mt. Vernon instead?

The address:
908 Shawnee St
Mt. Vernon, IL 62864

Looking at Google Earth they might be off the tracks in the southern area (looks like a parts/junk area). If so, in very bad shape.

tgibson wrote:Hi,

Looking at Google Earth they might be off the tracks in the southern area (looks like a parts/junk area). If so, in very bad shape.

Did you use the "Ruler" in the task bar to check the length?

For those on Trainorders, last drone overflight of NRE Mount Vernon 05 Feb 2017

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/ ... sg-4223861" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The locos I was looking at there have high hoods, so that can't be them. Looks like they may be gone indeed.

On the LIRR Forum it says that SEPTA has scrapped former LIRR Alco FA-2 #615, along with former LIRR EMD F-7A #622.

Former WM 304/LI 608/LI 3100, FA2, is enroute to meet it's maker in Ohio.

I saw that the 5 ex CN BBD HR616s were no longer visible at NRE in Silvis, Illinois (based on the drone video below). They had been sitting around for over 15 years and were in rough shape, leading me to believe they met the torch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkNcaaXE3ms" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

From Facebook:

Ohi-Rail scrapped 5 Alco S-2s this week.

All are in this pic from 2014:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/n8myc/136 ... Z1x-pWLVKg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Those all look mostly complete - in a much better shape than a lot of Alcos on storage lines by any chance.

Looks like roller bearing trucks on at least 2 of them...not very common for Blunt trucks

Scrapped February 2019:

https://scotlawrence.github.io/NYalcos/index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

D&H 4126 Alco RS3 - exAlbany Port RR #2
LIRR 417 Alco S1

Both at Colonie yard

thebigham wrote:Scrapped February 2019:

https://scotlawrence.github.io/NYalcos/index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

D&H 4126 Alco RS3 - exAlbany Port RR #2
LIRR 417 Alco S1

Both at Colonie yard

thanks..I'll get the page updated soon.


Scot

Teutobergerwald wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2017 10:57 pm On the LIRR Forum it says that SEPTA has scrapped former LIRR Alco FA-2 #615, along with former LIRR EMD F-7A #622.

Not true, on Dec 2018 it was handed off from SEPTA
http://trainspot.rrpicturearchives.net/ ... id=5048227

And picked up by CSX heading to Durbin & Greenbrier RR
http://trainspot.rrpicturearchives.net/ ... id=5061826