This is the scrap line at the Boone and Scenic Valley Ry.
Some of this might be saved- look at the locked door on 702.
I’ll have more photos (and more info) Saturday.
NOTE- The sign says “DO NOT SCRAP”, so this one will get restored.
You want irony? There’s some [censored] irony
The Boone & Scenic recieves many donations of old rolling stock. If the restoration costs are huge, they scrap it.
you think that bad wait till you see the Northwest railway museum scarpline, they have 8 rusting steam locomotives and a least 20 pieces of old rolling stock.
They are going to cosmetically restore it all though
Oh, haha… 
[tdn]
Who comes up with this stuff anyway?
That is pretty sad. It’s about as bad at the old CGW Oelwein shops.
uspscsx,
I come up with this stuff [8D]Thank u
Thats to bad. I have visted that railroad a lot and always love looking at those pieces of equipment, hoping they will restored.
Hey man, I just had to rib ya about that. Nothing against you.
i dont find that depressing, but a homeless person i do!!
That equipment has definantly seen better days.
It’s not really there “scrap line.” I don’t think they have ever scrapped anything. There’s just no money to restore most of that equipment. Especially for the freight equipment.
Back in the late 1990s I was a regular volunteer there. I haven’t been back along that track for a few years. I doubt that some of those cars can be saved now. The wooden bay window caboose is ex-Litchfield & Madison. (I thought of this car when reading Gabe’s post asking about the L&M the other day) The burned out interior view is of an ex-Wabash steel caboose, last used on the Des Moines Union.
The ex-South Shore car came with a few others that are in service. The same with the ex DL&W car. I was told the DL&W cars the B&SV have were used in the movie “Biloxi Blues” before they acquired them.
Jeff
Yeah, that stuff is in better condition than some of the equipment on the local short line around here.[}:)]
I saw all of that stuff when I rode the train last year in October. It is pretty depressing. Those cars are so far gone that it would probably cost less to buy something that’s in good condition then to try and restore them.
If they were to restore something, though, they could restore the steeple-cab electric - now that would look great on their electrified line!