SLRG Funeral Train?
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- You'd be forgiven for thinking this was the "funeral train" of San Luis and Rio Grande (SLRG) equipment being moved off Cape Cod following the Iowa Pacific bankruptcy, but it's actually the scenic train from 2015. Everything seen here except the Mass Coastal power is now for sale.
Isn’t that the RR from Walsenburg to South Fork? Seems familiar from a few trips thru the San Luis valley.
Yep
I find it unusual that SLRG had some ex-Long Island Railroad bi-level cars for their excursion trains. They were built in the 1990s, making them younger than most of Amtrak's revenue service passenger cars
They were like model railroaders with too much money at a sale. I think the bi-levels were fobbed off on Cape Cod Central, as were a pair of decrepit E9s, one of which you see here. It never ran, it was used for HEP only.
It's still cool though.
That byleavel car is an x Princess cruse line car from Alaska.
WOW
But I see them using some of the cars on the scenic run, up to now. The E9 was basically gutted correct, then and now?
The e9 should still have all components internally unless parts were removed to keep the other e9 running, until the fl9’s put it into storage.
The E9s belong to the now bankrupt Iowa Pacific (as do some of the coaches) and were in dreadful shape when they came to the Cape. There was an attempt to get one of them repaired to serve as head-end power, but it proved more trouble than it was worth. Instead, the remaining prime mover inside (the other had been removed, IIRC) was used for "hotel power" on the train, until the FL9s were acquired by the railroad.
What were those coaches
I think they were originally Long Island Railroad equipment.
@@mikechapmanmedia2291 ok they looked like it
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whats going on with the LVRG railroad and iowa pacific holding company
Don't know about LVRG. As for Iowa Pacific - kaput!!
So what’s going on with cape cod central now? Is that done as well considering it was owned by the iowa pacific?
No, it's a sovereign entity again. They basically bought themselves back, so Mass Coastal and Cape Cod Central now have no association with the remains of IPH.
Ok that makes me happy to hear. I have been riding the train in it’s many different forms every summer since I was 3 starting with the cc&h every summer. I grew up in sandwich and would ride my bike down to catch the train at the foster rd crossing. I really like iowa pacific running the show bc they always got interesting equipment sort of the the cape cod rr back in the late 90s before the state sued them. Hopefully they are able to maintain some coolness and not just use Long Island railroad coaches and kill the nostalgia
Arguably, Iowa Pacific nearly took MCR and CCCX down with them; no one I know is the least bit unhappy that they're out of the picture. IP is said to have siphoned off a lot of the income these railroads earned to pay bills elsewhere. Since they left town, suddenly the cars have been repainted, etc.