| Posted by on April 21, 2016 | |
A fitting quote from Trains, Planes and Automobiles: "I know it's not pretty to look at, but it'll get you where you wanna go." Del Griffith
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| Posted by FSWood on April 21, 2016 | |
"Hey, Ed, I'm telling ya, it said drip dry only, not to dry on high heat."
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Does anyone actually think that the PIR can get anything anywhere that anybody wants it to go...seriously?
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It looks like one axle of the right truck isn't even touching the rail. What happened in this car's previous life?
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It would seem like this railroad (if it can be so called) is a bad joke...
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| Posted by Mike on April 21, 2016 | |
Stopping with the Jam!
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Is Sir Toppom Hat suggesting that the embargo of the Carrizo Gorge RR's line is over, and that it will be operated as Pacific Imperial? Such a fascinating railroad!
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"Beam me up, Scotty!"
"The transporter's malfunctioning, Jim!"
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At one time the three GP-40-2's were sitting on the PIR mainline about a 1/2 mile west of the U.S. Gypsum sheetrock plant in Plaster City California (see my other pictures). For most of the time the units sat in Plaster City after being delivered by the UP off the El Centro Subdivision, they were tied up to three old boxcars that were part of the group of about twenty that were in storage on a siding at Coyote Wells (these were road worthy cars). When the PIR decided to develop their intermodal yard at Coyote Wells idea, they had all the boxcars, removed from PIR track and said cars were eventually pulled down to the UP tracks near the gypsum plant and taken elsewhere. At some point (about a week or two before my picture was taken) someone released the brakes on the string of three engines, or got them moving and they rolled down to the UP tracks at the gypsum plant and impacted with a sting of empty centerbeam cars that were waiting to be moved into the plant and loaded with sheetrock (the pictured car was the first of that string). The culprits whom made the engines move, were probably copper thieves and/or vandals such as the ones that got the Metra cars moving over at Dubbers Spur. As a result, the units were moved from the UP’s property at Plaster City to Coyote Wells (about 5 track miles) where they are currently parked on a setout track at the little yard there (see my pictures). As to who moved the units from Plaster City to the current location and how the move was accomplished (whether any of the units are operable, or they were moved by a highrail vehicle) is still a mystery. What is clear, is that UP would not have brought any of their assets out onto the Desert Line, as the boxcars were moved by side boom caterpillar tractors since the integrity of the rails and the associated sleepers could not be guaranteed to support a locomotive and it was believed the rails would “spread” if one were operated on the subject track. Unfortunately, now that the engines are right next to the highway, I expect they will be stripped and vandalized in the same fashion as the ones in Jacumba have been damaged.
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