Abandoned railcar moved after 10 years! - First train on Gallo Siding - Sagamore, MA - 10/16/2023

For the first time in 10 years the abandoned gondola inside the Gallo Construction building in Sagamore, MA moved. The car, stored here since fly ash stopped being loaded here around 2011, was last moved in 2013 when ballast trains were loaded there. Now in 2023 the siding is being restored so the car had to be moved to fix the track. I don't know the future plans for the car but it was moved onto the Sagamore passing siding.
Sagamore, MA
10/16/2023
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That is so cool! That’s two in a row old dinosaurs pulled out of extinction! Well done and thanks what you do for us.

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That's actually a really smart way of keeping the track from getting overgrown

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10 long years of neglect and it still moves as it was placed there yesterday!!! It is heartening to see an old abandoned siding being restored and used again!

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Not just the car but the rails haven't had weight upon them for 10 years. Its quite amazing what a growing bush or sappling can do to rail beds over time.Nice performance

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Awesome!!!!! Very cool to see it move again. Out with the old, refurbish, and in with the revenue!

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Great video! Really enjoyed the production of it too, i’m glad to see the photos at the end of the video. It’s good to see this railway pull out a stored car and shed some light on it, good thing you were able to catch this historic move!

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Very Exciting....😮😮 Thank you for sharing......Hope you keep Showing this siding restoration and first car spotting......❤❤❤ Great you showcased this area ..Probably encouraging this new Customer. To use rail......😅😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊yeaaaaa😮

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That is without a doubt the jankiest looking gondola I’ve ever seen. But good to see it moving again.

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While it hard to believe, sometimes cars do get lost. They end up in storage and lost in systems tracking system. We have found cars lost for years for clients.

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@johnlicht9151 Would love to hear some of those stories!

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Wonderful. Thank you. Interesting how you just happened to be there when they made the move. 😉

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Great videos, thank you!

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I’m surprised that car’s axles could still turn. I could see the wheels dragging when it first came out …

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[@TheBeeMan1994]

Why would the axles not turn? They are rotating on sealed roller bearings. We have some cars that sat in the weather for nearly 30 years that I moved, zero problems rolling besides the brake was slow to release (like seen in this video)

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Sealed bearings and sitting under cover mostly.

[@xr6lad]

@@TheBeeMan1994because logic would dictate the numbnuts should have trimmed back the foliaged and checked or re-oiled any moving parts just in case. Not trust in ‘luck’ cos some had done it once before. No wonder the US has so many derailments compared to elsewhere with this sort of organising.

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Market place environments change. Sometimes after years and staff changes, it is discovered returning to rail is cost-effective

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this is so amazing!! thank you so much, amazing really amazing

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very well shot as usual

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The inescapable march of time ,sooner or later it gets everyone and everything .....😢

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Good one !

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dang that railcar has been sitting there for 10 years and still moves!

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love it

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Great video to see what has been abandoned to be restored for future service! That locomotive is a sharp looking piece. Thanks again for sharing this video with us along with your time and effort! Cheers from Laurel, Delaware USA.
Btw, i have a question for you. Would you be willing to donate a sticker to my railroad room I'm creating. Im a disabled Delawarian due to a hereditary nerve disease and don't get out much. Trains are my passion and have been since i was 5. I have a section of wall that im putting these stickers that other CZcamsrs have sent me. Thanks for your time and God bless you!

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You’re right about the locomotive, I think they’ve been busy with the Turtle Wax…

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​@@aldo5428Give it time, it will look like crap.

[@jiovaniloncarevic]

Just saw that car today still in Sagamore at that same siding, you can kinda see it from the bike path. A bit further west, you can make out what looks like a Trackmobile.

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Awesome video. 👏👏

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That’s one way to keep a car from getting all graffitied up

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[@BillMorse-jr2ou]

great catch, very unique... so this rail spur is coming back to life.... did the HRRC lose the file card on this one? is that gondola a cut down, recycled 40' boxcar? would be interesting to model.... and no graffiti, just rust....thank you for sharing !

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Thanks for watching! The spur is being restored for freight. The property owner might’ve purchased the car and it’s a gondola.

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A little help , and it runs again , perfect ... :-)

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That's the famous Sagamore Bridge over the tracks, which also bridges the Cape Cod Canal. We crossed the Sagamore many times when I was a kid, when our family vacationed on Cape Cod. The Canal separates Cape Cod from mainland Massachusetts.

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Too cool

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It would be interesting to understand this from the car owner's perspective. Does the car not have a positive market value? Why not sell it if you're not going to use it? Or sell it for scrap? Baffling.

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There is also a gallo siding in long island. That is a wine siding! Good thing to get the siding looks like the tracks and points are maintained passed the fixed frog!

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What an awesome capture! It's not every day you get to see that kind of stuff. It was a fun watch, and I bet it must've been cool to see history in the making! God bless you, fellow railfan, and take care. 🎩👌🏻 ~ Joseph trainonthetrack 10/19/2023

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I can hear the car go 'OOWWWWW' need more grease, human!

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Great catch! One odd looking car. Steve

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Well at least it was "garage kept."

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Superb ... Very interesting

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Interesseting video :)

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[@burdizdawurd1516Official]

In my living memory of this location, which only stretches back to about the time you and I met in 2014, that car NEVER moved. I bet if I dig through my computer I can find a picture, because I think I have one from that long ago (If so I'll share it in the fb group)

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Update: I found the photo that I remembered. Taken 5/23/2014 from the Sagamore bridge. Unfortunately, the HRRC 2033 is not visible from the angle I was at - just the dinner train.

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It hasn’t moved since 2013 when ballast trains were running to fix the track for the capeflyer. It’s been on the property for longer though.

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Why are they fixing the siding? New customer there or Gallo needs another type of car (boxcar?) in there now?

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Poor thing.😢

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enjoy see video of old abandon rail cars being move from there would be graves, but any thing to do with the RR that was abandon and being brought to life I enjoy, old cars, engines, cabooses, and old rail equipment bring brought back from retirement and used again/

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Nice Friggin catch

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Awesome hopefully they redo it put the car back into service again

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A nice bath, some tender loving maintenance and some creative graffiti and that gondola will be as good as new.

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Interesting car....
I wonder if it was Built like that. Or Modified....
And why was it left there so long.... RR hoping that Fly-ash loads would restart?

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Thanks for filming this interesting move. Wonder what sort of cars are on the train that pulled the abandoned car out of the siding. They sort of look like modified coal gondolas.

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Did you notice all four are consecutively numbered too? #1013- 1016

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They are former rotary dump coal hoppers that were rebuilt and had higher car sides added. They are used to haul trash on the Mass Coastal “Energy Train”.

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Looks like the property owner could have gotten the brush and trees cut out so y'all could get it easier, and seeing the asphalt getting crushed was cool, there's a rail line down in North Carolina that is only partially used anymore, the line used to run from Durham to South Boston and had spurs off of it to Henderson (N.C.) to Richmond Va., the line now only runs to Oxford at the Certainteed asphalt shingles plant, all of the north bound road crossings are paved over with trees growing up between the rails the side rails going to Henderson and Richmond were taken out almost thirty years ago but a lot of the crossing barriers were left in place

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I know that line in NC their was a huge amount of coal cars stored on the usable portion of the line.

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@@flir67man84 I remember seeing the cars on the tracks, mostly up on the Virginia side, it's been ten years since I was down there so anything is possible but after all this time, I would think that the rail line has been abandoned on the North Carolina side

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Interesting. Something this simple is nice to see, in these days/times of ridiculous "news"!
I'm thinking this old car was in reasonable shape because it was under cover.
Thx for the share.

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[@atomicpunk701]

Looking at the springs as they pulled it out it looks like it's loaded.

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Thats a hell of a lot of dwell time!

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Did the flanges carve our new grooves in that black tap?

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Hurray! it has been freed from its tomb!

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That car has vintage written all over it. The rivets tell the story.

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Isn't there a break inspection or something required after all that time to move a car?

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They dragged it out of the building and onto a siding so you don't really need that. If it was being moved a long distance or going back into service they would've done that.

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i’m surprised it sat that long and its tires never went flat..

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I didn’t know I had a siding

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Am i reading the reporting mark correctly as HRRC?

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Very interesting, why leave it sitting soo long? Who owned it? Never seen a gondola like that, notice one of the side walls was cut lower….

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It may be owned by the property owner but who knows. It sat because it had no where else to go I assume.

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Yes. That was cool, but instead of just a move, it should have been an extraction. Man what a move. 👍👌✌️🤓

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I thought I saw "MEC" on the reporting marks. Does anyone know the car's history? Will it be restored and put back in service?

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HRRC but time will tell what happens with the car

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HRRC is Housatonic Railroad isn't it? I wonder if HRRC forgot the car ..

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Wait a moment... I thought there were regulations on how long the brake systems on cars go without being thoroughly inspected and certified. There's no way that car should be good to go for any length of movement. Is the plan to have it scrapped?

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What went on in that building?

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They used to load fly ash into railcars (as the description says)

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Interesting car. Pulpwood I imagine.

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6:50 What did the brakeman place next to the rail?

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Locking the switch

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What railroad did that car belong too?

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At one time Housatonic owned it but I don’t think they do anymore

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Is this site being prepared for future C&D loading?

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What is the reason the car was left at the spot?
Why was it moved?

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I'm curious, why did the train have several cars attached initially?

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It had to deliver those cars on the same trip

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Great video, who owned the car?

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[@philarony4921]

Who owns the car? What was the disposition? Was demmurage collected?😅

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The property owner may own the car. The disposition was exactly what you see in the video, move it out of the way and a short distance into the nearby siding. I assume its future is to be determined.

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What was it loaded with?

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Not technically loaded but my understanding is that someone poured concrete into the car years back.

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Wonder what’s inside the gondola?

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Concrete

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Strange gondola with a high side and a low side.

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One side might've been cut down by the property owner.

[@coolruehle]

What is that car used for? It's an odd design that I have not seen.

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It’s a gondola but someone cut it down for some unknown reason

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What’s interesting is no graffiti..thanks for sharing..

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Whats the story on that car?

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Last used about 12 years ago and has sat ever since

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Aren't old cars time limited? They scrap them after so many years?

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Time limits don’t matter if you just leave it there one day and never come back. Lol

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What business or industry was served by that siding?

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Gallo Construction

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It looks like.they built that gondola out of a box car.

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Those rail cars need some maintenance

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New customer coming?

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Looks almost like a old stump car

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I wonder how many cars railroads have tucked away like this one

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[@lancereagan3046]

So if it is abandoned, how can someone claim rights to it? Meaning, if I somehow get railcar numbers for it, what would prevent me from using it for revenue?

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Technically someone still owns it, it was more abandoned in the physical sense rather than the legal.

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@SouthCoastRailVideos So how would someone figure out ownership? What's the RR equivalent to a DMV?

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AAR (Association of American Railroads) maintains a database of all in-service cars/locos and many retired ones. Everything is listed by their subsidiary Railink Corp. that runs the data base. All interchange between railroads and maintenance logs for equipment is in there as well.@@lancereagan3046

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WHAT IS THE STORY OF THE HOPPER CARS SHOVED IN THE SIDING TO PICK OUT THE CAR IN QUESTION???
VERY UNUSUAL IN THE WORLD OF HOPPERS!!

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They are former rotatory coal hoppers rebuilt and extended for trash hauling

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This is all about jobs jobs and reducing carbon footprint print let them walk ride their preferred mode of transportation on the other side of ROW fence jobs tax revenue

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[@jaydowling213]

Why would you leave it there for ten years? You guys have money coming out your noses? You're so rich you don't need to give it a thought for ten years?

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The customer didn't need it moved until now

[@tigershark4469]

why was the cars right side wall lower than the left? it looked like a gondola at first.

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They cut it down, I guess for access

[@1BigRed]

What’s the new business? And are they running through the building with the new siding?

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The customer is Gallo Construction and track is already through the building