Abandoned OLD Train
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- Abandoned long old train rotting away outside of Chicago, Illinois in Bensenville near O'hare Airport. Nearby there is a railroad crossing without gates, lights, or signals. Near the end, you will see it is an old MARC train on the EMD locomotive which is being used for parts. Join me for some urban exploration and railroad archaeology in this video!
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Great adventure, wish I were with you. I love exploring old rail cars and loco’s that looked like an old Burlington northern F9 that was widely used for Chicago area commuter trains
RailROL82 / in this day and age it’s really hard to coordinate something like that with many people having different jobs etc. etc but I would probably suggest a fan meetup at one of the great RR museums around the country like North Carolina transportation museum or the Tennessee valley RR museum in Chattanooga TN and so many more. Just plan it way in advance so the people that could attend would have time to
Make arrangements, I even think the museum may offer some perks like maybe a discounted excursion train trip if available
I’ve been to the NCTM and it’s a great rail adventure on the former Southern RR shops at Spencer NC, look them up online
Saw this first time round and watched again. So sad that anything left unattended gets destroyed or defaced. Some people have no idea how to create, merely how to destroy.
You're absolutely right, Geoff. Those delinquents have no regard or consideration for private property. I bet they don't graffiti in their living rooms. Thanks as always for the views and comments!
That BN E-8 has a backstory as to why it is there.
In 1991 the loco was running a casual line from Champaign to Chicago union station. One unlucky pedestrian could not get out of the way in time and was killed.
My goodness, that's terrible. So it has been out of circulation since then?!
The two cars behind the E-9 were from the Illinois Central Railroad. Judging from the interior of one of them, it was a dining car. They probably ran on the City of New Orleans, the Panama Limited or the City of Miamy. So sad to see them in that condition. The IC was my favorite railroad. The trains were quite beautiful in their earlier days.
This had to be a fun day nice find great video 👍
It sure was! Thanks as always for the views and comments!
Thanks for sharing! I really enjoyed the video!
I'm glad you liked it, Isabella. Thanks as always for the views and comments!
That’s so cool dude
I couldn't believe it when l came across it. Thanks as always for the views and comments, Matthew!
So sad if you are ever in Chattanooga TN chattanooga choo choo has old passenger train that you can sleep in and a awesome train ride
Nice! Is it stationary or does it go for rides?
Amazing at times how something that big can be squirreled away with hardly anyone knowing about it. Yeah that E9 spent time in MARC Baltimore service and maybe the cars did to. Metra leased out a lot of equipment including Virginia Rail and possibly someplace out west as there is a string of these in the AZ desert. iPH is in bankruptcy and a broker is selling off the cars on tourist lines and their shops out west. If they lose the lease on this track the cars are instant scrap fodder unless Metra still holds some kind of title. Excellent tracking skills in Chi Town
IPH is in bankruptcy? So all this equipment most likely has a dark future ahead of it. Thanks for the compliment, I try to do my research before visiting a certain area. Thanks as always for the views and comments!
I think that Burlington Northern F9 9912 needs to be preserved at a railroad museum despite it's gruesome history that happened in 1991
Those abandoned passenger cars looks like that they been sitting on that railroad for years
I agree. To think that they could be useful and in service somewhere else.
Hey i live in Bensenville, Can you send me the exact adress to this place?
I included the Google Maps link in the description. Thanks as always for the views and comments!
What is the music you use called
The band is Audionautix, l forgot the name of the song!
The link isn’t working for me! Any updated address I can use?!
Sorry Jordan, I went with someone from the area, so l don't know how to find it again : /
Thanks as always for the views and comments!
RailROL82 no problem, thanks for letting me know!
I’m actually trying to find this on google earth but I’m having trouble
I included the Google Maps Link in the description of the video. Thanks as always for the views and comments!
@@railrol82 Yep, i found it on google earth too.
I work nearby and i seen it after using google maps. Seems like you have to park in a companies parking lot and walk over to the site. I might just do that next spring ! Maybe the owner of one of the many warehouses nearby was a rail fan and maybe bought this stuff and passed away
where did you find it ?
That is a old Burlington Northern Passenger which they did run there back in the day
That sounds like quite a site to see! Thanks as always for the views and comments, Thomas.
Me and my friends found the last 2 passenger trains featured in the video by any chance you may know what their called
@@baldemarvelasquez8337 Nice! It's been a couple years since I filmed this video, I forgot... My apologies!
They were Burlington Northern. Also Metra (RTA )if your talking about the green locomotive those ran in the late 80s 90s that video by @railrol82 was near Rosemont Illinois
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Rosemont, yes! That rings a bell!
You wonder when was the last time they used this? For? Transportation of passengers or Graffiti? Beware! That train could wind up in Florida running on the Tri-Rail as soon as next week! That F-unit seems to be missing something critical, don't you think? Good find for historical reference but raided to the bones.
Can that train realistically end up in FL on a Tri rail? Do passenger cars have to meet certain criteria for age?
@@railrol82 That's one of my silly visions of reuse. Hah LOL😁👍
Update me and my friends I found two of them near my home it's the ones from the thumbnail maybe I'll make a video about it how's it sound
Cool, looking forward to it!
anyone catch the other E9 & older GP unit on the same line behind the American Beauty Equipment warehouse?
Thanks as always for the views and comments!
Here me out I think me and my friends found 2 of the pasanger trains
In Chicago?
what is the address
I included the Google Maps Link in the description. Thanks as always for the views and comments!
That engine has a gruesome history and one of the most graphic fatalities caught on video:
On August 26, 1991, 41-year-old Mary T. Wojtyla of Chicago, was fatally hit by a Metra commuter train headed by a leased Burlington Northern Railroad EMD E9 locomotive no. 9912 at the Fairview Avenue station in Downers Grove, Illinois,
Wow, that is irony for you! Perhaps my favorite day ever was 8/26/91, it was my late older brother's Bday which we made him a surprise party that day, my 1st day of 3rd grade, and WWF's Summerslam 91 was that night! Thanks for the history lesson, keep up the good work!
@@railrol82 That's the year
I got my WWF tattoo because I worked for a contractor that set up their Midwest shows. Now that's irony!
Although it looks abandoned, it might be just broken down and needs maintenance.
I think it's safe to say it is abandoned lol.
@@railrol82 ok
It's quite obvious that's been sitting there for a long time. It is sad to see railroad equipment sitting unused and decaying. Even worse is when vandals break glass allowing the elements to damage interiors. Were those batteries too heavy for someone to steal and carry away?
I see A-1-A trucks so that would be an E-8/9 passenger locomotive in BN green
Attention to all railroads, if you have something old bring it to a railroad museum for other people to see, not just throw it away. Great video, it's a shame that they leave their stuff in the open like that.
Loved seeing that old MARC engine. MARC has a habit of selling their used to engines to Illinois transportation
Looks like a abandoned Burlington Northern E9
The locomotive looks more like a EMD E9. I can't tell from views of the under carriage, but if the trucks are 3 axle, it is definitely an E unit. Both E & F units were used in by-level commuter trains mostly before the consolidation of suburban services into METRA in the Chicago area. Smooth side coaches were used by pre-METRA CNW& I think RI. Fluted stainless steel were MILW or BN. After METRA, the equipment gradually became intermingled in the various suburban lines.
It is an E unit and not an F. You can see the front truck at 7:45. It was a BN unit. And all three axles of the rear truck at 8:52.
@@gravelydon7072 I thought so because of the shape of the number boards
You happened upon some old Metra gallery cab cars (you can identify them by the snow plow at the front ends), gallery coach cars, the locomotive was an "E" unit (A1A truck configuration), and two former Illinois Central coach cars.
It would take a very heavy and expensive funding for any kind of restoration of all of this equipment.
Yes F unit kind a rear definitely awesome thank you.
Neat catch. Knowing IPH they will restore these old pieces of history In time.
Great find
Those cars were Metra's old highliners. They still have some of the blue and orange striped ones in service from the 70s, but these are the even older brown and orange striped cars.
If you want to know more about Metra, You can watch my channel on the UP Westline. You can observe them.
Some of those cars used to be super nice! That's crazy how much old stuff just got set aside and left for dead. The old Metra cars are really cool but the BN E unit and those two older passenger cars are really something else! Should put them in a museum or something! Awsome video and find Roly great job!
Great video keep up the good work
Very cool old train
How interesting!
Great video, as always!
Hey R awesome video. If you ever visit St Louis there is a yard of old Amtrak cats and rail cars here, I could show them to you and the old bells :-)
I was in St. Louis last weekend
The tracks are owned by Canadian Pacific, currently being leased to Iowa Pacific. One of Iowa Pacific's railroads, Chicago Terminal, serves all the industries in the industrial park. All the passenger equipment is NOT abandoned, just heavily vandalized. All of it is owned by IPH.
Next to last car even has their pint scheme on it.
Wow man, that was an amazing find. Abandoned rail is some of my favorite stuff to find and explorer!! This thing was beautiful, especially that car towards the end with the wallpaper in the curtains. Too bad somebody spray-painted inside of that one.
Either way amazing find thank you for sharing with us
Very interesting. Ty
yet another amazing video by Mr. Railrol.
@@railrol82 your welcome 👍
Interesting!!!
Most interesting !!! Shame to let it rot!! Thanks for showing !!!
Wow! This is awesome it’s 2 different passenger rail trains very old locomotive, the first set of cars I could be wrong could be old METRA Rail commuter cars. You are truly the railroad archeologist. Some of the seats I saw were still in good condition. Looks like that line was abandoned too.
Nice video! WOW that likes very old! Nice catch and keep them coming!
Nice find. That F-unit might make it as a static display like the one in Railroad Park in Bowling Green Ky. There they have a memorial to the old Louisville and Nashville Railroad complete with refurbished railcars that I think is an actual restaurant. Still a nice find even though that F-unit had a lot rust in the nose.
Have you been to the Kentucky Railway Museum in New Haven, Ky? There is quite a bit of L&N history there.
Epic find!
RailROL82 No problem!
Cool video my friend!
Greetings from Croatia :-)
Very cool video, RailROL! That train has probably been sitting since the 60’s or 70’s.
That is just sad
1:53 someone painted 2014 on the side, so it's been abandoned for at least five years!
9:46 even the original wallpaper! (I beleive it's from the IC days at least)
That's quite a lot of passenger cars! Enough to start a new commuter line! I beleive that MARC/BN E unit was at the Illinois Railway museum in one point in time. (I saw one in Kansas City a few years ago before it was repainted in Iowa Pacifc colors)
The old steam engines DID have steel tires. They were forged to slightly smaller dia. than the driver center (spokes and counterweight area), then heated to expand and fit on the driver , then allowed to cool and shrink onto the center. They did this because the flange was usually the most damaged part of the wheel, and could be repaired without having to forge an entire driving wheel. B it you are correct in this case, he should have called it a wheel.
If you ever come to Austin Texas, alone highway 71 (Ben white blvd) the old bergstrom spur has been sitting abandoned since a little after 2000 from my knowledge, currently modeling it In ho scale myself, it’s a great find as it’s for the majority still intact and multiple switch stands and cantilevers still stand and they are old school, a couple have to have been around since the 60’s, just yesterday I had attempted to walk the line as best I can but many spots are over grown and even one spot has a tree nearly 20 feet high growing directly in the middle of the track, still there is over 5 miles and 17 industries once served on the line that still stands, definitely a great catch if you ever come to the lone star state again I saw your video when you were in Lockhart or luling, I live in that area
Great find. Some of those cars must have been beautiful when they were new! It’s a shame to see it in this condition.
Nice video
Great catch my friend!
@@railrol82 You're welcome!
Awesome video! That cut of cars looks like it has seen better days! Awesome video as usual, very intriguing!
RailROL82 I agree! They were probably super high class, now they are just sitting in some stretch of track rotting away. And no problem man, I’ll comment/view your stuff anytime!
Did alittle hunt and find on Google Map and found where they are stored at. Definitely can see them from the road. Don't know if that is good or bad. If people see them, will they go and vandalize more or not ? Good find though. Would need a lot of $$$ to restore. If someone has the $$$ then the 2 cars at the for end would be the choice cars to restore. Nice wall covering and curtains in the one you looked into. I visit Chicago alot (in-laws live there), should go and explore myself if I can. Thanks for the Video.
Those train cars would make an excellent apartment. I wold love to live in one of them...
wow
What was the interior of that coach just after you entered the loco at about 9:50? The décor looked something special.
Excellent Video. 🇮🇳
Ex Burlington-northern FL9 locomotive , Ex wabash and L&N smoothside coaches.
Not an FL-9. FL-9s had one 3 axle truck and one two axle truck. This unit is an E unit and has two three axle trucks.
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At 7:18 that old marc which was numbered 91 (ex bn). Was originally at the illinois railway museum in union illinois back in 2003 or 2004 by looking at railway picture archives, but over the years it was brought in and out of places and now its abandoned. :( nice video by the way, I have yet to see this loco
Railrol 82 first if your a father Happy father's day. You don't need no computer or phone. You have the powers of railroad force. You be finding stuff. I love you friend. When i say I love you I mean friend brother love. No funny business. I'm a father myself. Looks like a train from the seventies to eighty's model passengers train. Love you brother
Isn't that the MARC loco with no motor that was on Ozark a few years ago? Was being sold as a shell with wheels and some parts.
Nice find! I've been to Bensenville before, and this one time my friend and I went to see some F9 units and I think they were on a storage track. I don't know if they're still there but you should check them out.
@@railrol82 I don't think so
l wondered what they did with the abandoned train. and track.
That be cool if they restore that engine but great video railrol
WHO noticed the railcars, behind these passenger cars, at 2'3" and 2'04". One looked like a newer tank car.
so sad that this most likely will not be saved :
What did it say?
I think he meant sad
@@afloridian9758 i know. It was a joke. Its a good thing i screenshoted it.
Well damn, I’m pretty stupid
@@afloridian9758 no. You just made a mistake.
If you do the aerial view on google maps you can see the train has been moved further up and on to a siding from where it was shown on your video or the other way around depending on when the the aerial view image was taken.
Sad to see that old F unit rusting away. It would be nice to see it restored. Great video!
@@railrol82 I think it's too far gone to restore
@@chaosdemonwolf1 The engines are out of the rear of it. Most likely that area had a HEP unit installed and it would have been powered only by one when it was last used.
Is this equipment still there?
Actually, they might be Pullmans.
I wonder why they abandoned it, in that location? Was that in a "warehouse district?" Scary.
I was first to watch
That locomotive is a former CHICAGO BURLINGTON AND QUINCY E9
@@railrol82 They became BNSF.
It's an f nit
Dang Bro, you need to be on the lookout for ghosts, zombies, clowns or some combination of the three!
Them too!
F7A. Is there a B unit coupled to it?
That answers that question. Cool find, my friend.
Now thats a mystry scrapping!? Good luck on finding out the WHAT/WHY/WHEN. Wonder if something tradgic happened aboard. And the train and line were disbaned together.
@@railrol82 True. Hope your day was well( HAPPY FATHERS DAY). I Just now got home.from work. As for the abandoned train, they need to strip it down quick before rust/ corrosion& mold sets in. Grafeeted enough already.
Kept in better condition that could provide temporary homes for people.
@@railrol82 Coincidentally Roly I just saw this short video on London buses converted for homeless. czcams.com/video/PcDtyqT59us/video.html
If they (whoever "they" are) had no further use for those trains, why didn't they just scrap them rather than just forgetting about them and letting them rot??? That having been said, those cars have become quite the community palette. Some amazing artwork on there!
Most of these coaches are MTDX and Metra
At least I think most are Metra
Could be that unit that was similar to the one that hit that one lady in that one video where she was crossing the tracks when the train was coming. Either that or the unit that was sitting at the station.
@@railrol82 I think so. Where the lady crosses infront of the stationary train and end up getting hit by the fast moving one.
I wonder why they just left it sitting out there?
So cool! Nice find! Lots of cool graffiti.
If you ever go down to California near San Diego and the border, there's an abandoned train cars there. The trail is called Goat Canyon. I heard it's deep in the mountains and a long hike to get there.
@@railrol82 It doesn't seem dangerous. It's in the state of California in San Diego County. Check out some CZcams Videos on Goat Canyon Trestle. The whole line is abandoned. It has a few abandoned passenger train cars, 9 tunnels, and a long and tall trestle/bridge where the train used to cross. There's a video "The Impossible Railroad Update - Carriso Gorge" that they will reuse that abandoned train line again for the trains to transport goods from Mexico to the states.
Look like old Budd Metra cars.
1960's/70's Ex Chicago And Northwestern Bi-level coaches
I want to say that these cars have been sitting abandoned for at least 20 years now. But I'm not really sure for how long. There's also some abandon Metra cars sitting in the California desert near the Mexico border.
But as you can see and as you're finding out obviously in your videos here, is that Chicago it's full of gold! LOL!
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@@railrol82 Your friend Millennium Force actually did his own take on them back in 2017. It's not a protected area at all it seems. It's just in the open desert about a mile from the interstate. There is a train tunnel near by them too.
The rail line was last used by trains back in 2008. It's still all intact and hasn't been torn up yet as far as I know.
The rail line that their on was a part of the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway.
The line is also home to the world's largest all wooden railroad Trestle Bridge.
See bridge picture: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Goat_Canyon.jpg
The name of the bridge by the way, is called goat Canyon Trestle and uses all wood and no metal since the desert heat could cause metal fatigue. The bridge was completed due to the fact that a previous railroad tunnel had collapsed back in the 1930's.
And the rail line was completed back in 1919.
Note: This is a railroad line that you should explore with someone tagging along with you. Being out in the open desert there can be some dangers of course. Plus if something does happen to you out there god forbid, no one will know since you're out the middle of nowhere.
Most definitely bring a friend along for safety since this is a dangerous desert.
The bridge is 5 miles up the railroad line from the abandoned Metra cars as the crow flies.
This rail line goes through many tunnels and rides along on the edge of Cliffs of mountains throughout the desert. It did have passenger service back in the 1950s though. A tunnel near the bridge just recently collapsed back in 2017 obstructing the rail line. The line has been a very high maintenance line for railroads to use. However it never seems to be officially confirmed abandoned. The line is technically closed for indefinite repairs. But supposedly there is hope of reactivating the line at some point.
But due to the high maintenance of this line, it hasn't earned it the reputation of being called The Impossible Railroad. Even way back when it was originally completed.
And as for Chicago, yeah it's a goldmine for sure. There are just so many rail lines throughout the Chicago metro area. There is even electric passenger service in Chicago with the Metra electric and South Shore Interurban railroad Line that goes off into Indiana from Chicago.
The South Shore Line in fact, is the last operating Interurban line in the United States as far as I know. Unfortunately it's sister line the "North Shore Line" that connected Chicago to Milwaukee wasn't so lucky. Like every other Interurban railroad line in the United States, it was abandoned. The South Shore was the only one in the US to survive the automobile age.
Today the North shore line is nothing but a very long bike trail that parallels the former Chicago Northwestern tracks from Chicago to Milwaukee. (The North Western tracks are used by Metra and UP today.)
@@railrol82 LOL! Your welcome. ^_^
That locomotive is an EMD E unit (either E8 or E9) built I would say 1940s' - 1950s', not an F unit as you can see this locomotive has six axles. An F unit has four axles. It is a shame that there are youth that have no respect for historical pieces of equipment like these passenger cars and locomotive. Ah well when you are young (or old for that matter) and ignorant what do you expect.
If I were u I’d call the railroad and tell them make that bn a working unit not a shell with wheels and spray paint
RailROL82 they don’t have a heart
Its an ex BN e8/9 and they where retired from service back in the 90's.Those are old metra passenger cars.Those lat 2 cars look like they are old Illinois central gulf cars.
@@railrol82 they probably just shoved them aside instead of sending them to a museum.Great catch and i bet other rail fans did not know they where there.Do some research around chicago,I think theres maybe still trolley tracks visible in some spots and maybe some old track from the under ground railroad.
They were ICG cars. You are right. They were built by the Pullman company in the 40's and 50's for the Illinois Central.
You are right, they are ICG cars. They were built in the 1940's and 1950's for the Illinois Central.
Are you a train conductor or something because you know a lot about train parts
I’m a huge fan
no batteries and no engine, I guess you can't take the ghost train for a ride😁
Idk why they would just leave a legendary f unit abandoned and that f unit is from the BN railroad that got merged with Santa fe on about 1989 I think that's why it's abandoned because of the merge
Because it isn't an F unit in the first place. It is an E unit and as such has A-1-A trucks which make them less than optimal for freight use.
You called the wheels, "tires", the second time you pointed to them, which is not correct. I know you meant wheels.