During a trip to Dallas this week I came accross a very decrepit looking chop nosed GP9 sitting on an industrial siding near close to the Wyndham hotel on Stemmons Freeway. This unit had a very rusted boxcar to the rear and a not so small tree (about six inches in diameter or so) growing up between the rails in front of it, with very tall weeds growing right up into the trucks on both ends. I could not help but think of why the owner did not sell the unit for scrap or something rather than just let it sit there rusting away. The cab doors and windows seemed all to be open!
Hey, be careful – that’s trainfinder22’s RV!
LOL!!!
Maybe it belonged to a short line that abrupty quit one day? A couple of years ago I “stumbled on” an excursion passenger train in Clayton, DE, that was abandoned in place a few years earlier. Of course the local railfans knew about it, but to an outsider it was a curious discovery, just like the GP7…
That’s what gets me. In this world of digital camera’s and all, hell down the street at the corner stop-&-rob, there was a camera, and is there a pic here? Or a link to a picture? Think, man, I sooo wi***o see this loco, built in the early fifties, setting there waiting, for some to come to the rescue! And then one day, it’s gone. Cut up into four foot by four foot squares, and sent to China. Someone else, will surely come, and cut it up, for scrap. Whatever…
The appropriate map to the “RV” would appear to be this:
(remove any spaces due to wrap in this URL, of course)
Relative to the streets on this map – where is the unit in question?
Lets see;I was thinking,boxcar:kitchenette,bedroom,den or living room. GP-unit,
bathroom? AH,a thought![:D][}:)]
Although,reckon it would quailfy for U.S.P.S. address?