I love that your channel is not just about abandoned places but it is more about the history. I just hope more people find your channel and learn to love it just as much. You are just amazing!
But as lost as it is, someone always finds a way to place graffiti on it. Mars Rover, abandoned by NASA on mars surface since 2018, probably has graffiti on it.
Not that I know of, but they did use the one malfunctioning wheel to draw a furrow in the shape of a giant penis on the surface of Mars itself! So you're sort of right...
I noticed that as well. I suspect those cars have been there much longer than 15 years. One of the trees growing up between the rails looked about 25 years or more in age.
It would have been so funny to find a skeleton in one of the seats stand up and say "Are we there yet?" Seriously, just found your channel and love it!
mike32277 deadly....dont believe it?....go take a walk around detroit or any other dying decaying city around the U.S ....or world. But i see from ur profile ur a train freak so you likely think its just fine to dump trains in public areas....everything os fine as long as it suits you,right? smh!
Sung to " Folsom Prison Blues " I don't hear that train a comin' . It's still sitting on that bend . The wheels haven't turned since I don't know when . It's stuck in Alabama and time keeps movin' on , but that train ain't a rollin ' on down to San Anton .
From my history of observing and studying railroad equipment. My guess was that the tanker was filled with water, those appear to be older steam heating coaches. A hose would probably connect to a steam generator in one of the coaches, an old boxcar, or the locomotive pulling it. This water would then obviously be turned into steam and provide heat in the coaches. Keep in mind steam heated trains were wiped out in the early 1980's for more conventional electric heating so you would be right. Also another thing I noticed was the Amtrak paint of one of the coaches, used on trains from 1971 to about 1974. So these coaches have either been there a long time. Or simply just went through a bunch of owners, maybe both.
Holy! Dude, I thought I liked adventures, but there is this man walking through all that not giving a fk. I would at least bring someone with me and a bat. Mad respect to this guy!
How about a gun?..Americans are allowed to protect themselves..Aren't they teaching that in schools?..And why is walking through the Alabama woods so dangerous?..absurd comment.
There was one in PA, the guy took 2 cars, and turned them into a fully functional house. Kitchen, bedroom, etc. Looked like a regular train coach on the outside, outdated, but walking into it was like walking into a luxury home. It was amazing
@@Peculiar223 that’s easy. The Democratic world. Any place that is democratically run has a lot of homeless. Take a look at Baltimore, San Francisco, Detroit, Chicago. A train would be better than on the street like these poor people living in these asshole democratic run cities!!
@@jadsr69 are you seriously making this political?lol so I live in a republican state with Democratic Cities. I see just as much homeless in Republicans place more than Democratic places. In fact I live near the Appalachian mountains and all you see in those Republican run places is high meth use, opioid epidemic and backwoods poverty. Why you made this a political thing beats me.
Built by the Budd Company for the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1947. Built as a 52 seat coach it was rebuilt by Amtrak into a 60 seat coach in 1974. I have no more in formation after that date.
That is the really unanswered question. Why is there luggage and and doll out there with the train? From what read in the comments, it belongs to some North Alabama Train Museum. Did it breakdown there? If so, why did someone leave those things? How far away is it from tracks that are still in operation? How were the tracks also abandoned?
The train was sold to a private developer in 1979, who had the idea of turning it into a barbecue restaurant. The developer ran out of money and walked away. The random personal effects were on board when it was purchased.
Cheers for having the guts to go visit this by yourself...abandoned cars, trains in the woods, buildings, etc, are all holding energy, good and bad....no way in hell would I be out there by myself...lol
For future reference, the first four numbers in a furnace serial number usually indicate the year and month (sometimes week) the unit was manufactured. The order varies.
It's amazing just to think that there was a time when that was brand new, full of paid travelers, taking them to their destination, even rail crews maintaining the tracks, and now, it's just abandoned. How did that happen and who made that decision, it's almost like a ghost.
I agree. If you go back to the beginning of the comments and scroll down until you find Doug C he posted a comment and a link to a picture of that Amtrak railcar when it was still in use.
Wendover Productions just recently made a great video on Amtrak & why they're failing and their plans for the future. It begs the question: why would Amtrak leave a set of railcars abandoned in the middle of nowhere? Why not repurpose it, sell it, or scrap it? Makes no sense. I'll post the video below incase it gets flagged for spam, but the title of the video is "Amtrak's Great Plan for Profitability".
I don't think we should assume they still belong to Amtrak. Considering they are attached to a random tank car, I'd guess Amtrak sold them to some other interest who parked them there.
That seems like 70’s Amtrak rolling stock. If it was from the 80’s it would be an Amfleet car. It was most likely sent to be scrapped and then forgotten about.
Your content (and also knowledge and narration) is amazing. I really need to binge watch your stuff over the next couple weeks! I love urbex, nature, and trains, so this is a trifecta for me haha.
This is why you should always carry one of those creepy old man rubber masks with you when exploring the abandoned...just put in one of those cabinets and close the door for the next guy.....
@@emmaryan8147 have you ever heard of a classic film called "Deliverance", or heard its Oscar-winning theme, "Dueling Banjos"? That's why. If not, go rent the film, then you'll understand the connection, lol.
@@emmaryan8147 I would say the answer to that is probably, lol. Do a search for "Deliverance", and I'm sure it will pop up. Just a quick synopsis: a group of guys, old friends, decide to go on a rafting/camping trip... and some disturbing sh!t goes down in the deep woods as it becomes a fight for survival... it's a classic from the 1970s, starring some very well-known actors of the time, mainly Burt Reynolds, who passed just a couple of years ago.
Making my way back to some of your videos I've missed, and I'm enjoying all of them...as usual! it's such a blessing you can travel so much :) miss you friend
The PPCX markings on the outside of the cars is the "American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners". So apparently these were either privately owned cars or owned or leased by a small company. It looks like there has been some scrapping done (copper wiring) and the undergrowth doesn't really look like more than maybe 20 years or so since it was pulled in. It would probably cost more to cut it up and haul to the scrap yard than it would be worth. Unless the local Wal-Mart needs a bigger parking lot it will still be there 20 years from now. Reminds me of the docu-series "Life After People". Cool find though.
As a child, I found a Dodge aluminum box truck very deep in the forest. I have no idea how it got there in one piece. The glass was even in one piece. There were trees everywhere. The date on the box truck was 1965, as far as I could tell. There was a journal inside a console that had mileage driven, oil changes with their dates and other maintenence dates. The earliest date on the journal was 1965. The truck belonged to something called, "Blue Bell." The back of the box truck was full of all manner of interesting things. There were things about the Lunar landing, a framed picture of President Nixon, a really old .22 caliber pistol, filing cabinets full of old paperwork, two old chest freezers, tools, really old radios, an American flag that was attached to the ceiling, and a few suitcases full of clothing. It seems maybe someone lived out of the box truck. I actually got my first set of tools out of that box truck. I still have some of those tools. Maybe I should hike into the forest someday and see if that old aluminum box truck is still there. I was the only one to know about it when I was a kid. I used to leave little things that would fall over if anybody visited the old box truck. They were always undisturbed.
As a Former Law Enforcement Officer, this Train would be a Great place to Train Law Enforcement and K-9's. Also, with the price of Copper Wiring and Aluminum today, I can't believe there's a piece of that Train left. Very interesting Video 👌. Thanks for sharing.
@@zackhawn5944 From my first hand observation, there are companies in the U.S. that actually operate daily services on tracks just like this, minus the trees growing between the ties.
"never going anywhere again" i dont think you realize how powerful a modern, or even vintage train locomotive is. if they attached one to it and started it it would roll right on through the tracks and snap those trees like twigs lol
Thanks for finding this. My husband, son & I took an Amtrak to Louisiana last summer to visit family. It was expensive, but it was well worth it. I would actually do it again. 🙃.
Such a cool find and video but really sad it's had every window smashed, copper wires ripped out and graffiti painted all over it. Why can't people respect things.
@@spaceghost8995 This is called safe storage. Aka far from people and out of the way, but idiot punks can't fucking get that just because it's alone out in the middle of nowhere does not give you the fucking right to trash it and rip it up like you do everything right next to you!! Fuck off!!!
That is amazing to me that no one has recycled that metal. The railway tracks alone are worth $$$$. That is crazy. It looks as though the car were stripped a bit. The sink tops are missing and I seen all the seats are gone. Great Video.
Thank you for making these videos, very enjoyable. There's a town in Pennsylvania. Windber Pa. That has a number of old trains parked in the woods. I tried to find the owner, I was going to volunteer to help restore them, unfortunately I couldn't evan find the property where the train's where kept.
Fascinating. I'm something of a railfan (not hard core, but I like watching trains). As you say, this raises a lot of questions. I suspect that we're looking at a railcar graveyard, either purposely created or since after all this time, attempting to remove the cars and the rails would be too costly in both time and money. Thanks! As always, I really enjoyed this video.
The North Alabama Railroad Museum is in Chase Alabama, just east of Huntsville. There is an abandoned rail line from the museum that runs up into Tennessee. You can still see the bridge pillars at the Flint River but the RR bridge is gone. There are several small wooded areas on the line. My guess is that these cars are on that line and are still the property of the museum and not abandoned.
The federal government should have left the private sector to the private sector not interfere in private industry if passenger rail couldn't make it so be it let the private sector worry about that !
@@marieakrim4862all transportation systems are subsidized in some form. Trains (before Amtrak) had US Mail contracts, then those were moved to trucks and planes. Hiways built by Gov't, air traffic control system built by gov't. Take those away and trucking and airlines would go under as well if they had to provide the capital for infrastructure like the railroads did.
Many other locations in the US, where you can find whole trains, sitting out in the open, on tracks, not being used anymore. I wonder if the people whoever left these trains to die, have ever heard the words, " scrap or restore"?
@@okbkcq You might check other videos on TH-cam. I've seen some of them. Many of these abandoned trains, rolling stock and locomotives, are either in plain view, or on track's, that are in the woods. You might even look up all the railroad museums, tourist railroads and the like. Everyone I've either seen or been to, has items that are not being used or are in the process of being restored. Also, check railroad clubs, model or otherwise. Good luck!
It would cost them too much money to haul out. Steel is only worth 10 cents a pound. And Id rather see it stay for history sakes. You can buy old huge gigantic steel bridges for $150.00 because it's a pain in the arse and too expensive to haul. You just have to haul it yourself. Only rich people buy small ones for their creeks
@@zippitydodaday6037 I wish scrap steel was up to .10c per pound. Hasn't been that high in North Georgia for over 10 years. You are lucky to get .03c. A complete running driving car will only get you about $100 these days.
I've seen a lot of comments about posting where this is located. I totally get it as I want to go visit it myself. It's just that one of the unwritten rules of urban exploration is you don't give out locations to preserve the integrity of the site from vandals. However, I was able to locate it by reading the comments and playing with Google Earth. Good luck & happy exploring!
@@angelaclements1244 its one of those things where people who truly want to explore and simply look without destroying will put in the time to find a location like this, where as vandals usually go where ever is convenient. If he posted up the location and someone local to it wanted to tag or take something from here, they could then easily do it without much or any notice from the law. He's not trying to be "elitist" or whatever, hes trying to save this location from increased vandals to preserve it for those who want to explore. Do you see what I'm saying?
ChaosDemonwolf1 you do realize that this train is in really good condition for how long it’s been sitting there, right? The seats may be missing, though there is a good chance they were removed by Amtrak to be used in other cars, and there is some graffiti on the inside of the cars, but the fact that most of the utilities and wiring are still there, which are usually the first things taken, shows how well it is still preserved due to not many knowing where it is. Also, judging by the level of skill in the graffiti, it probably caused by teenagers who live in the area and go there to hang out and / or other illegal activities. As for the missing windows, I’m not really sure what happened with those cause if they were busted out be vandals, there would be broken glass on the ground and still in the window, but there’s not, so it was either removed by Amtrak, and someone spent the time cutting them out to use elsewhere. My point is, compared to like 80% of other sites, this is in very good condition, so he’s not going to say where it is so that future vandals don’t destroy it more. Besides, like I already said, if someone really wants to go here, an hours search tops on google and google maps could pull up where this is at.
I thought they were hollow when they were built? LIke the lady says about stuffing the Thanksgiving turkey when they asked her what she stuffed it with.......she said it wasn't hollow.
Always nice to see a viewer with enough curiosity to dig deeper. Thanks @Kabuki Kitsune for contacting the North Alabama RR Museum to get the scoop on these cars. Can’t imagine what it would cost to fix these up.
Insulation may be Asbestos which was used extensively throughout the rail industry during a large part of the 20th Century because of its fire retardant properties. The construction and maintenance of railway engines and carriages up to the 1970’s involved the widespread use of asbestos. It was regarded as an ideal material for insulating the boilers of engines on steam trains, lagging pipes, packing piston cylinders and providing brake pads. Blue asbestos was often used to insulate train carriages whilst asbestos was also packed behind panels in the carriages in order to retain heat. In addition to the use of asbestos in the engines and carriages it was also commonplace throughout the station buildings, signal boxes, depots and offices. The trains themselves were used to transport asbestos materials throughout the country for use in other industries.
Ian Nonhebel Hello from Australia, there was a bunch of obsolete train carriages in Victoria full of asbestos ,they were deemed too dangerous , expensive to scrap so they buried them in an quarry, asbestos was a good product but too dangerous to use.
Brake pads are still asbestos containing materials. Many people would be surprised to know that items containing asbestos are also likely to be in products in their homes.
My father worked on railroad for 48 years. Mesothelioma was his cause of death from all asbestos from the railroad! He started working in car shop after getting out of navy after world war2. The railroad wasn't only his career but a passion of his. Towards the last 20 years of his career he was an engineer and it was familiar to see him waiving out of a locomotive as it went by! He was an awesome dad!!!
Missing sink ,missing toilet, missing creepy doll. Aren't you afraid that one day when you open a door to anything in your adventures there might be something you don't want to see? Creepy but yet so interesting
1:48 1947 Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Car 4062 (also 5284-1 at some point) 1971 Rebranded Amtrak Passenger Car 6072 1981 Retired So it's been sitting there for 38 years.
1:24 the air pump is dated 88 Hunts(ville), AL, so I guess that might've been the last time it was used. Last photograph I could find of this car was 2010, and it already looked abandoned. 4062 refers to its number in the Pennsylvania railroad days
Back in the early 80's when I was younger and still living in Elgin Illinois my dad used to visit me and take me behind the train station right downtown on the side of the Fox River there was very old train cars sitting on old train tracks and they were cool to look at them. I don't know if they are still there because it has been about 40 years sense I last seen those old train cars and they were old then.
It is truly amazing how much abandon infrastructure can be found in the United States. Railroads Equipment & Yards, Telephone Company Facilities & Networks, etc.... So sad, & such a waste. I think I found the spur, just south of Ashland, AL. It looks like an industrial lead, that ends at the base of a power substation. Mostly an industrialized area, with homes just to the west of it. I suspect this sort of thing is found throughout our country. A sad commentary on our country.
VIA Rail still uses this type of stainless steel car in Canada on various routes. Some of them date back to 1945 - 1949 or so. Obviously they've been renovated numerous times. Passenger rail in Canada is sort of a zombie land industry outside of the little Toronto - Oddawa - Montreal triangle. Via might be interested in buying these for spares! 😂
There is an old train in some woods where I live at . the old locomotive has been abandoned for so long that you can actually walk up to it and step on the top of the train and start walking or even climb inside the smoke stack.
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When you do urban exploring you always leave stuff the way it was, so the next guy can enjoy it the same as you. That old train would have been much more fun to explore without all the vandalism and graffiti. Some people have fun destroying old and abandoned stuff. As for the light switch, he may simply turned it on and off to hear the clicky sound of that old switch.
@@MichaelRichardson-bw5xh The pure evil thing is, major corporations knew lead based paint and asbestos were extremely toxic to their workers decades before it was revealed to the public. It is disgusting.
kids today don't know what's it like growing up with toys that can hurt you or kill you ,the memories toys made out of lead with lead paint the die they used on blue m&ms that was poisonous, Stretch Armstrong with toxic waist in him, could take a bb gun to school for show and tell damn I miss the good old days glad I grew up when boys became men not like today when boys grow up to be offended over everything
@@ifimnothereandimnottherewh2576 yup. Because having you're health and life needlessly endangered by the toxic toys you list, getting cancer from materials around you every day.. that's what makes someone a man. People gotta toughen up. Got shot? Walk it off.. lol.
They are in Huntsville. The spur they are on was built for the power substation on Shields road. The track it is off of is still operated by the North Alabama Railroad Museum.
@@phils2552 ur right...also i figured mobile instinct wouldnt answer anyway..seems lazy to just straight out ask instead of huntin the location down themselves. (exact location..not the stuff he gave on video..which i must have ignored...like u said)
@TripleDog Dare depending who funds the recovery, you might spend more than that scrap is worth (probably part of the reason it still sitting there)...i did notice a "stripped" wiring conduit...copper is pretty valuable, but looks to me someone came and took that copper already!
@@ncgreg231 I didn't notice the stripped conduit, but I did notice copper wire still in that panel box he showed inside the passenger car, I'd say there hasn't been much stripping going on with it. Scraps so far down it's really getting not worth it even to the crack heads anymore. I remember when it was way up guys were stealing live power lines in the middle of the night. That takes some balls!! About once a month it would make the news one got electrocuted trying to do it.
Alright! You found the train, now we have to find the passengers that went with it Also there’s this really cool set of tracks near where I live there abandoned, really old, there right next to a walking trail, and they lead right off a cliff
Amtrak likely still has the records that would explain how this all happened. Would be interesting to know.
Could have broke down or something
MAY BE 🧐 IT WAS FOR SCRAPT AND THEY DESIDED TO JUST LIVE IT THERE OR THEY 🧐 DINT HAD THE TIME TO PICK IT UP
@@osvaldorodriguez6855 it doesnt look like it needs to be scraped. It looks fine
its owned by a museum
Amtrak retired the car in 1981, and it was sold.
Funny how this younger man thinks the 80's was a long time ago while I, approaching my 80's, thinks the 80's wasn't that long ago.
The 50,s is a long time ago!😁😁😁😁
I was in college in the 80's
Gurffy 3 yes like a million years ago 😱😳🇺🇸
Annette Elliott it always was
It's 40 years old
I love that your channel is not just about abandoned places but it is more about the history. I just hope more people find your channel and learn to love it just as much. You are just amazing!
It’s not uncommon for me to find abandoned tracks in my local industrial area, but to find a whole train!? That’s pretty amazing
When he said it was REALLY OLD, probably from the 80s, I felt ancient. My honeymoon in 1987 was on the VIA train in Canada, traveling through Alberta.
But as lost as it is, someone always finds a way to place graffiti on it.
Mars Rover, abandoned by NASA on mars surface since 2018, probably has graffiti on it.
Those flipn Alien teens....
They never went to Mars - or the Moon.
Titanic has graffiti ...
Not that I know of, but they did use the one malfunctioning wheel to draw a furrow in the shape of a giant penis on the surface of Mars itself! So you're sort of right...
Someone always has to screw with things that aren’t theirs. They have no respect for people or their items
This train is not abandoned, it just running late.
Very very Late...
Trains can be late but never early
Well Said . . .
then why is it rusty?
Mussolini would've made it run on time.
Always gotta have the creepy babydoll.
a universal truth
That’s what I said. Always come with the presence of evil spirits
It's me placing the dolls it makes me laugh
Only thing that would have made it better is if one eye was missing.
Its actually occupied at night with homeless nearby. Between 10pm-8am its a zoo according to nearby locals and the sheriff don't go out there
Judging by the size of some of those trees that train has been there 15 years at least
32 years...
I noticed that as well. I suspect those cars have been there much longer than 15 years. One of the trees growing up between the rails looked about 25 years or more in age.
@@waltonwarrior7428 One of the cars is dated 02 so 17 years at most
One of those cars was inspected in June 2002.
Wow that's awesome to see!!
It would have been so funny to find a skeleton in one of the seats stand up and say "Are we there yet?" Seriously, just found your channel and love it!
🤣🤣🤣
Good one hahahaha
That has actually happened before
Right now Amtrak is going "oh crap don't let the EPA see this " LOL.
Zig says sooner or later somebody is going to be accountable for it, lets see, is there a name on it???
proves corporations can do what they want without any interference
@@krankinkogs especially government run corporation like Amtrak
@@krankinkogs Are you freaking serious?
mike32277 deadly....dont believe it?....go take a walk around detroit or any other dying decaying city around the U.S ....or world.
But i see from ur profile ur a train freak so you likely think its just fine to dump trains in public areas....everything os fine as long as it suits you,right?
smh!
Sung to " Folsom Prison Blues " I don't hear that train a comin' . It's still sitting on that bend . The wheels haven't turned since I don't know when . It's stuck in Alabama and time keeps movin' on , but that train ain't a rollin ' on down to San Anton .
Good one buddy!
Why didn't I think of that? That's a good one!
Very cool indeed 😀😎😘
Priceless!!
Fucking TOP NOTCH!!!!!!!! I sang it and Johnny himself smiled from heaven.
From my history of observing and studying railroad equipment. My guess was that the tanker was filled with water, those appear to be older steam heating coaches. A hose would probably connect to a steam generator in one of the coaches, an old boxcar, or the locomotive pulling it. This water would then obviously be turned into steam and provide heat in the coaches.
Keep in mind steam heated trains were wiped out in the early 1980's for more conventional electric heating so you would be right.
Also another thing I noticed was the Amtrak paint of one of the coaches, used on trains from 1971 to about 1974. So these coaches have either been there a long time. Or simply just went through a bunch of owners, maybe both.
Also if you check the date and the air break system, it's good untill 6/9/88. So I'm guessing it's been out in the woods since 84/85 at the latest
Actually it was well in 00's when those wagons we're left there.
@DJ Wood Jr. for the kitchen stoves and ovens
They wouldn’t need an entire tank car of water for heat!
Holy! Dude, I thought I liked adventures, but there is this man walking through all that not giving a fk. I would at least bring someone with me and a bat. Mad respect to this guy!
Maybe a dog as well.
How about a gun?..Americans are allowed to protect themselves..Aren't they teaching that in schools?..And why is walking through the Alabama woods so dangerous?..absurd comment.
How do you know he's not armed. Most people don't anounce when they're carrying
The way he is grabbing around in those brown leaves he must be immune two copperhead snakes not to mention black widows
Especially in Ala-F#@kin-Bama. God knows what low-life could pop out from behind a tree. "Hey mister... Got Any Money?"
I wish I can take one of those train carriage and renovate it to a 1 bedroom home.
Me 2
I just said the same thing to my cousin. 😃
That would be amazing!!
Wish I could take them across the scales 🤑
There was one in PA, the guy took 2 cars, and turned them into a fully functional house. Kitchen, bedroom, etc. Looked like a regular train coach on the outside, outdated, but walking into it was like walking into a luxury home. It was amazing
Find the nearest human habitation and i bet you will find they have AMTRAK Coach Car seats in their living room being used as recliners.
Bill23799
Dammit man 😂😂
@@kansasstatealerting2874 I sit corrected.
Probability.
Damn hillbillies
You ever sit in one of those they suck
Surprised you didn’t find anyone living in that Amtrak train.
Or any animals for that matter.
Yeah well.. it's not weird that no one lives there Cuz they could rotted in the woods ground.
You surprised no one lives in the train? So, what world you live in where people commonly live in an abandoned trains deep in the woods?
@@Peculiar223 that’s easy. The Democratic world. Any place that is democratically run has a lot of homeless. Take a look at Baltimore, San Francisco, Detroit, Chicago. A train would be better than on the street like these poor people living in these asshole democratic run cities!!
@@jadsr69 are you seriously making this political?lol so I live in a republican state with Democratic Cities. I see just as much homeless in Republicans place more than Democratic places. In fact I live near the Appalachian mountains and all you see in those Republican run places is high meth use, opioid epidemic and backwoods poverty. Why you made this a political thing beats me.
Built by the Budd Company for the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1947. Built as a 52 seat coach it was rebuilt by Amtrak into a 60 seat coach in 1974. I have no more in formation after that date.
It was sold to man named Lou Spirito in 1979. He intended to turn it into a barbecue restaurant, but ran out of money.
No wonder Amtrak is always losing money! They lose their trains as well and, passengers luggage!
That is the really unanswered question. Why is there luggage and and doll out there with the train? From what read in the comments, it belongs to some North Alabama Train Museum. Did it breakdown there? If so, why did someone leave those things? How far away is it from tracks that are still in operation? How were the tracks also abandoned?
The train was sold to a private developer in 1979, who had the idea of turning it into a barbecue restaurant. The developer ran out of money and walked away. The random personal effects were on board when it was purchased.
“I think I can, I think I can...ah, to hell with it!”
😂
Haha
Lol.funny shit.
lol
Now that right there is funny. Thanks for the chuckle.
This is awesome. Great content man.
Awesome find. Trees have grown up in the middle of tracks, it looks like it's been there for many years.
one car was serviced in 2002, so not that old
@@deanmoore1752 My point exactly. Probably the same age as the vandals damaging them.
@@itchyvet if they had ever ridden those things, they possibly wouldn't trash them. no respect for things they dont understand
Eighteen years since servicing. Looks like the maintenance department dropped the ball on this one.
Every squatters dream come true!
Wonderful place for people to stay "off grid".
He is lucky he didn't get jumped by a bunch of bums !
Yooo are we just not gonna talk about the “PLEASE HELP US” carved into the side of the train at 3:48
Cheers for having the guts to go visit this by yourself...abandoned cars, trains in the woods, buildings, etc, are all holding energy, good and bad....no way in hell would I be out there by myself...lol
For future reference, the first four numbers in a furnace serial number usually indicate the year and month (sometimes week) the unit was manufactured. The order varies.
It's amazing just to think that there was a time when that was brand new, full of paid travelers, taking them to their destination, even rail crews maintaining the tracks, and now, it's just abandoned.
How did that happen and who made that decision, it's almost like a ghost.
I agree. If you go back to the beginning of the comments and scroll down until you find Doug C he posted a comment and a link to a picture of that Amtrak railcar when it was still in use.
Really look how thick those trees between the tracks are shit its been a hell of a long time since anything used those tracks !
Wendover Productions just recently made a great video on Amtrak & why they're failing and their plans for the future. It begs the question: why would Amtrak leave a set of railcars abandoned in the middle of nowhere? Why not repurpose it, sell it, or scrap it? Makes no sense. I'll post the video below incase it gets flagged for spam, but the title of the video is "Amtrak's Great Plan for Profitability".
th-cam.com/video/dSw7fWCrDk0/w-d-xo.html
I don't think we should assume they still belong to Amtrak. Considering they are attached to a random tank car, I'd guess Amtrak sold them to some other interest who parked them there.
Tiny home
That seems like 70’s Amtrak rolling stock. If it was from the 80’s it would be an Amfleet car. It was most likely sent to be scrapped and then forgotten about.
Yup. More than likely a funeral train
Usually when a RR company decides to stop using spur line, they will use older disused equipment on that line in order to block any further use
Apparently it worked.
Your content (and also knowledge and narration) is amazing. I really need to binge watch your stuff over the next couple weeks! I love urbex, nature, and trains, so this is a trifecta for me haha.
This is why you should always carry one of those creepy old man rubber masks with you when exploring the abandoned...just put in one of those cabinets and close the door for the next guy.....
Not to mention a realistic rubber arm to put in the suitcase
also a rubber should always be carried with you ...just put it in one of those cabinets and close the door for the next ....
@@praveenb9048 Or a plastic skeleton!
Doooo it
Dude, if you start hearing a banjo playing... run like hell. 😆
Why
@@emmaryan8147 have you ever heard of a classic film called "Deliverance", or heard its Oscar-winning theme, "Dueling Banjos"? That's why. If not, go rent the film, then you'll understand the connection, lol.
@@arladicey haha ok are they on Netflix or Hulu
@@emmaryan8147 I would say the answer to that is probably, lol. Do a search for "Deliverance", and I'm sure it will pop up. Just a quick synopsis: a group of guys, old friends, decide to go on a rafting/camping trip... and some disturbing sh!t goes down in the deep woods as it becomes a fight for survival... it's a classic from the 1970s, starring some very well-known actors of the time, mainly Burt Reynolds, who passed just a couple of years ago.
I wish I had a friend like you. You speak nice, intelligently and with erudition.
Making my way back to some of your videos I've missed, and I'm enjoying all of them...as usual! it's such a blessing you can travel so much :) miss you friend
Such an awesome find bro, your YT channel is absolutely sublime.
All the way from Adelaide, South Australia 🇦🇺
Thanks! I really hope to get to Australia sometime. That would be amazing.
I used to visit Adelaide. Is there a museum of railway coaches. Visited Victor Harbor and travelled in the horse drawn tram
The PPCX markings on the outside of the cars is the "American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners". So apparently these were either privately owned cars or owned or leased by a small company.
It looks like there has been some scrapping done (copper wiring) and the undergrowth doesn't really look like more than maybe 20 years or so since it was pulled in. It would probably cost more to cut it up and haul to the scrap yard than it would be worth. Unless the local Wal-Mart needs a bigger parking lot it will still be there 20 years from now.
Reminds me of the docu-series "Life After People".
Cool find though.
I saw something towards the end of the video saying "06-14-02" so it's been there less then 20 years.
I live in central Arkansas and there are alot of abandon lines with cars on them all around. It's cool seeing them
As a child, I found a Dodge aluminum box truck very deep in the forest. I have no idea how it got there in one piece. The glass was even in one piece. There were trees everywhere. The date on the box truck was 1965, as far as I could tell. There was a journal inside a console that had mileage driven, oil changes with their dates and other maintenence dates. The earliest date on the journal was 1965. The truck belonged to something called, "Blue Bell." The back of the box truck was full of all manner of interesting things. There were things about the Lunar landing, a framed picture of President Nixon, a really old .22 caliber pistol, filing cabinets full of old paperwork, two old chest freezers, tools, really old radios, an American flag that was attached to the ceiling, and a few suitcases full of clothing. It seems maybe someone lived out of the box truck. I actually got my first set of tools out of that box truck. I still have some of those tools. Maybe I should hike into the forest someday and see if that old aluminum box truck is still there. I was the only one to know about it when I was a kid. I used to leave little things that would fall over if anybody visited the old box truck. They were always undisturbed.
As a Former Law Enforcement Officer, this Train would be a Great place to Train Law Enforcement and K-9's. Also, with the price of Copper Wiring and Aluminum today, I can't believe there's a piece of that Train left. Very interesting Video 👌. Thanks for sharing.
K9s always "hit" to get their treat. Earn the hate.
I love the way that we all have to look inside the abandoned toilets to see what's in there I'll never figure out why we do it but we all do it😂
Could be rolled gold or silver nuggets.
By the size of the Trees inside the Rails, this Train was Abandoned here a Very Long time ago.
@Ken S. Just looking at the one tree @ 0:43...wow that tree is pretty big! Good catch because I never noticed until I read your comment. 🙃
Last date on one of the tanks was 2002
Some trees can get that big in handful yrs just fyi
judging by the looks of those tracks, even if those cars could mive, they are never going anywhere again lost forgotten and abandoned. it
@cosmicVox13 Noone would ever do it. Not worth the investment
@@zackhawn5944 From my first hand observation, there are companies in the U.S. that actually operate daily services on tracks just like this, minus the trees growing between the ties.
"never going anywhere again" i dont think you realize how powerful a modern, or even vintage train locomotive is. if they attached one to it and started it it would roll right on through the tracks and snap those trees like twigs lol
Get the scrappers torch out now !
You would most likely derail on those tracks don't look like they been used in at least 30 years !
Thanks for finding this. My husband, son & I took an Amtrak to Louisiana last summer to visit family. It was expensive, but it was well worth it. I would actually do it again. 🙃.
there’s a lot of abandoned trains and abandoned train tracks like this in and around the pine barrens in south jersey they’re really cool
5:08 What would you have done if the lights had came on when you flipped that switch?
I thought the same thing....LOL
Such a cool find and video but really sad it's had every window smashed, copper wires ripped out and graffiti painted all over it. Why can't people respect things.
Respect means NOT abandoning it.
@@spaceghost8995 What makes you think it's been abandoned ???? How do you know it was not placed there for storage, like many rail companies do ?
@@spaceghost8995 This is called safe storage. Aka far from people and out of the way, but idiot punks can't fucking get that just because it's alone out in the middle of nowhere does not give you the fucking right to trash it and rip it up like you do everything right next to you!! Fuck off!!!
Uplifting repartee.
That is amazing to me that no one has recycled that metal. The railway tracks alone are worth $$$$. That is crazy. It looks as though the car were stripped a bit. The sink tops are missing and I seen all the seats are gone. Great Video.
The tracks are probably still owned by a corporation or individual
Hello from Oklahoma! The thing that strikes me about these kinds of videos, how destructive people are. Interesting find. Thanks for the video.
Thank you for making these videos, very enjoyable. There's a town in Pennsylvania. Windber Pa. That has a number of old trains parked in the woods. I tried to find the owner, I was going to volunteer to help restore them, unfortunately I couldn't evan find the property where the train's where kept.
Fascinating. I'm something of a railfan (not hard core, but I like watching trains). As you say, this raises a lot of questions. I suspect that we're looking at a railcar graveyard, either purposely created or since after all this time, attempting to remove the cars and the rails would be too costly in both time and money.
Thanks! As always, I really enjoyed this video.
The North Alabama Railroad Museum is in Chase Alabama, just east of Huntsville. There is an abandoned rail line from the museum that runs up into Tennessee. You can still see the bridge pillars at the Flint River but the RR bridge is gone. There are several small wooded areas on the line. My guess is that these cars are on that line and are still the property of the museum and not abandoned.
The federal government should have left the private sector to the private sector not interfere in private industry if passenger rail couldn't make it so be it let the private sector worry about that !
@@marieakrim4862all transportation systems are subsidized in some form. Trains (before Amtrak) had US Mail contracts, then those were moved to trucks and planes. Hiways built by Gov't, air traffic control system built by gov't. Take those away and trucking and airlines would go under as well if they had to provide the capital for infrastructure like the railroads did.
I'm surprised that the copper wiring is still there..
Probably the last visitors left long before the big Copper Craze. I think that's a 21st century issue.
Its not in California :)
@@ArcticWolfSilver I seen some of the A/C copper. & motor stripped out on the lower end of one of the cars.
I'm sure that stuff is gone now. :)
Yes an the aluminum siding on the passenger car an the the brass in the bathrooms
I gotta say....I can’t stop watching and following your vids......keep them coming.....you got it man!!!!
You know, the locals could've had a lot of fun with you here. Ever seen Deliverance?
Squeal like a pig.
You got a pretty mouth.
I think I heard a banjo in the background...
Many other locations in the US, where you can find whole trains, sitting out in the open, on tracks, not being used anymore. I wonder if the people whoever left these trains to die, have ever heard the words, " scrap or restore"?
Is there a website or list from which I could get these locations?
@@okbkcq You might check other videos on TH-cam. I've seen some of them. Many of these abandoned trains, rolling stock and locomotives, are either in plain view, or on track's, that are in the woods. You might even look up all the railroad museums, tourist railroads and the like. Everyone I've either seen or been to, has items that are not being used or are in the process of being restored. Also, check railroad clubs, model or otherwise. Good luck!
It would cost them too much money to haul out. Steel is only worth 10 cents a pound.
And Id rather see it stay for history sakes.
You can buy old huge gigantic steel bridges for $150.00 because it's a pain in the arse and too expensive to haul. You just have to haul it yourself. Only rich people buy small ones for their creeks
@@walterfink9782 thank you
@@zippitydodaday6037 I wish scrap steel was up to .10c per pound. Hasn't been that high in North Georgia for over 10 years. You are lucky to get .03c. A complete running driving car will only get you about $100 these days.
I've seen a lot of comments about posting where this is located. I totally get it as I want to go visit it myself. It's just that one of the unwritten rules of urban exploration is you don't give out locations to preserve the integrity of the site from vandals. However, I was able to locate it by reading the comments and playing with Google Earth. Good luck & happy exploring!
It seems a bit elitist never revealing location . It's ok for us to explore but not you.
I think the vandals found this one.
@@angelaclements1244 its one of those things where people who truly want to explore and simply look without destroying will put in the time to find a location like this, where as vandals usually go where ever is convenient. If he posted up the location and someone local to it wanted to tag or take something from here, they could then easily do it without much or any notice from the law. He's not trying to be "elitist" or whatever, hes trying to save this location from increased vandals to preserve it for those who want to explore. Do you see what I'm saying?
@@kaelwilliams5702 Yeah but it's obviously too late.
ChaosDemonwolf1 you do realize that this train is in really good condition for how long it’s been sitting there, right? The seats may be missing, though there is a good chance they were removed by Amtrak to be used in other cars, and there is some graffiti on the inside of the cars, but the fact that most of the utilities and wiring are still there, which are usually the first things taken, shows how well it is still preserved due to not many knowing where it is. Also, judging by the level of skill in the graffiti, it probably caused by teenagers who live in the area and go there to hang out and / or other illegal activities. As for the missing windows, I’m not really sure what happened with those cause if they were busted out be vandals, there would be broken glass on the ground and still in the window, but there’s not, so it was either removed by Amtrak, and someone spent the time cutting them out to use elsewhere. My point is, compared to like 80% of other sites, this is in very good condition, so he’s not going to say where it is so that future vandals don’t destroy it more. Besides, like I already said, if someone really wants to go here, an hours search tops on google and google maps could pull up where this is at.
Wow,imagine renovation on this,what a home to live in !😉
That Train Engineer took one HELL of a Union lunch break
I know a train abandoned like this deep in the woods in NC, some guy hollowed it out and made it his home.
What is your number. We would like to contact you to do an on screen interview about this train.
@@LucifersDeathSquad no thanks.
@@SummerAlleriaWindrunner - No problem. We already awarded the interview to another young woman. Thank you for your time though.
I thought they were hollow when they were built? LIke the lady says about stuffing the Thanksgiving turkey when they asked her what she stuffed it with.......she said it wasn't hollow.
Up around Hotsprings aye?
The size of some of the trees in between the tracks indicates decades have passed since it was used. Interesting!
I would have thought that too, but at the very end he shows a part with a service date from 2002! 🤔
@@crossarmkid42 thats still 20 yrs, tree I saw were softwood, def could have gotten that big n that time
17 years or about 1.75 decades.
1.75 is more than one decade therefore "decades" is correct.
Anthony Thorp Don’t remind me 2002 is almost two decades ago.
@@jessereading8973 I don't have kids so I don't see the passing of time. It's crazy when a marker comes up and you realize how much time has passed.
Lmfao. This was just downloaded. I was thinking, how in the hell does this not have more views. Awesome, eerie video.
You can almost smell the smoldering of the bodies
So you found The Polar Express. “Tickets Please”
🤣🤣🤣
All aboard!!! 😂😂😂
Always nice to see a viewer with enough curiosity to dig deeper. Thanks @Kabuki Kitsune for contacting the North Alabama RR Museum to get the scoop on these cars. Can’t imagine what it would cost to fix these up.
3:48 Someone wrote on the train "Please help us". Wonder what that was about.
Insulation may be Asbestos which was used extensively throughout the rail industry during a large part of the 20th Century because of its fire retardant properties. The construction and maintenance of railway engines and carriages up to the 1970’s involved the widespread use of asbestos.
It was regarded as an ideal material for insulating the boilers of engines on steam trains, lagging pipes, packing piston cylinders and providing brake pads. Blue asbestos was often used to insulate train carriages whilst asbestos was also packed behind panels in the carriages in order to retain heat.
In addition to the use of asbestos in the engines and carriages it was also commonplace throughout the station buildings, signal boxes, depots and offices. The trains themselves were used to transport asbestos materials throughout the country for use in other industries.
Ian Nonhebel Hello from Australia, there was a bunch of obsolete train carriages in Victoria full of asbestos ,they were deemed too dangerous , expensive to scrap so they buried them in an quarry, asbestos was a good product but too dangerous to use.
My thought it that it was cheaper to abandon this than pay to properly dispose of the abestos
From experience that train is not flame retardant, it burned down
Brake pads are still asbestos containing materials. Many people would be surprised to know that items containing asbestos are also likely to be in products in their homes.
My father worked on railroad for 48 years. Mesothelioma was his cause of death from all asbestos from the railroad! He started working in car shop after getting out of navy after world war2. The railroad wasn't only his career but a passion of his. Towards the last 20 years of his career he was an engineer and it was familiar to see him waiving out of a locomotive as it went by! He was an awesome dad!!!
Missing sink ,missing toilet, missing creepy doll.
Aren't you afraid that one day when you open a door to anything in your adventures there might be something you don't want to see? Creepy but yet so interesting
Haha your last sentence said it all!
I'm sure he uses a drone to survey and assess the situation instead of walking in "blindly"....
I was waiting for him to stumble into a place on the train that was clearing being used as living quarters by some cannibalistic hobo family.
@o o Didn't remark that he didn't or didn't put it there, it's still a creepy doll. Imagination you lack imagination .
Sorry, did or didn't put it there( the doll)
1:48
1947 Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Car 4062 (also 5284-1 at some point)
1971 Rebranded Amtrak Passenger Car 6072
1981 Retired So it's been sitting there for 38 years.
Yet at 9:49 there's a stamp that says "Handbrake repaired and tested 5-31-87". Could be another carriage, but that in itself is odd.
Investigative mind, well done
Watching from India 🇮🇳 under lockdown. Stay safe everyone. Wonderful ❤️
Wonderful place to find copperhead snakes, good luck if you get bit that far out with no help.
1:24 the air pump is dated 88 Hunts(ville), AL, so I guess that might've been the last time it was used. Last photograph I could find of this car was 2010, and it already looked abandoned.
4062 refers to its number in the Pennsylvania railroad days
Great info - thanks. I find it all so interesting.
I think you need a dog--one that can detect snakes.
You don't need to detect themTHEY will detect YOU!
Its a former Amtrak coach. but was former Santa Fe coach before that.
Ah, the illusive Timmy speaks!
BeaverVision Joel??
@@timdaugherty5921 it is I my friend!
BeaverVision we must find this spot !!!!
wow...you must have some amazing railroading powers!
Thanks for the tour, I was atcually excited to explore with you. Great vid.
Lol. I was super excited about the suitcase. Thank you for sharing your adventures.
Is that the mid night train to Georgia ?
Yes it got lost on the way there
Back in the early 80's when I was younger and still living in Elgin Illinois my dad used to visit me and take me behind the train station right downtown on the side of the Fox River there was very old train cars sitting on old train tracks and they were cool to look at them. I don't know if they are still there because it has been about 40 years sense I last seen those old train cars and they were old then.
I visited Elgin when I was over from London in 2001
I was waiting for him to ask “y’all wanna see a dead body?” 🤣🤣🤣
6:56
The train took a wrong turn, the engineer left to get directions and got really lost, great video its sad that this happens
WHAT A GREAT FIND, THAT POOR TRAIN!
It is truly amazing how much abandon infrastructure can be found in the United States. Railroads Equipment & Yards, Telephone Company Facilities & Networks, etc.... So sad, & such a waste.
I think I found the spur, just south of Ashland, AL. It looks like an industrial lead, that ends at the base of a power substation. Mostly an industrialized area, with homes just to the west of it. I suspect this sort of thing is found throughout our country. A sad commentary on our country.
And the country isn't that old.
Really interesting. Previous comment about graffiti was spot on. It ends up everywhere.
Worst Samsonite ad yet.
When I was a kid growing up they would have elephants trampling on Samsonite it was supposed to be indestructible LOL
or best
VIA Rail still uses this type of stainless steel car in Canada on various routes. Some of them date back to 1945 - 1949 or so. Obviously they've been renovated numerous times. Passenger rail in Canada is sort of a zombie land industry outside of the little Toronto - Oddawa - Montreal triangle. Via might be interested in buying these for spares! 😂
No animal/birds started living in it, thanks for not adding unwanted music in the video. Nice
7:56 as an HVAC tech, the date is in the serial number.
MERRY CHRISTMAS @MOBILEINSTINCT ..=)
There is an old train in some woods where I live at . the old locomotive has been abandoned for so long that you can actually walk up to it and step on the top of the train and start walking or even climb inside the smoke stack.
Steven Rightsell where would that be at. I’d love to one day see it.
Michigan City Indiana. Whenever or if you choose to come to Michigan City Indiana contact me on Facebook Messenger under my name Steven Rightsell I will take you to it
Thanks for taking us with you .I like things like this
Its probably been there since the mid 1980s !
Man you always have such interesting material. EXCELLENT job...
As usual. : )
Turns light switch on. Nothing happens. Turns it back off
that's the responsible thing to do
When you do urban exploring you always leave stuff the way it was, so the next guy can enjoy it the same as you. That old train would have been much more fun to explore without all the vandalism and graffiti. Some people have fun destroying old and abandoned stuff.
As for the light switch, he may simply turned it on and off to hear the clicky sound of that old switch.
troemich oh I totally agree. I hate the vandalism and disrespect from others.
force of habit i guess
Comes naturally
Asbestos insulation lead paint back when things were built to last
Built to last a lifetime, built to shorten lifetimes.
Built to last longer than the people who died from lead poisoning and mesothelioma from the asbestos and lead paint.
@@MichaelRichardson-bw5xh The pure evil thing is, major corporations knew lead based paint and asbestos were extremely toxic to their workers decades before it was revealed to the public. It is disgusting.
kids today don't know what's it like growing up with toys that can hurt you or kill you ,the memories toys made out of lead with lead paint the die they used on blue m&ms that was poisonous, Stretch Armstrong with toxic waist in him, could take a bb gun to school for show and tell damn I miss the good old days glad I grew up when boys became men not like today when boys grow up to be offended over everything
@@ifimnothereandimnottherewh2576 yup. Because having you're health and life needlessly endangered by the toxic toys you list, getting cancer from materials around you every day.. that's what makes someone a man. People gotta toughen up. Got shot? Walk it off.. lol.
Where about was this located? Me and my crew would love to visit it. Thanks.
pennsylvania,in the woods somewhere.
He said northern Alabama
They are in Huntsville. The spur they are on was built for the power substation on Shields road. The track it is off of is still operated by the North Alabama Railroad Museum.
@@OldSchool82 You're not paying attention.
@@phils2552 ur right...also i figured mobile instinct wouldnt answer anyway..seems lazy to just straight out ask instead of huntin the location down themselves. (exact location..not the stuff he gave on video..which i must have ignored...like u said)
You have a very calming voice thank you for sharing your videos.
Thanks for exploring and posting. Roger
Abandoned train in the woods ......Will it start.
Find the engine and do a will it start video :-)
@@johnchadwicktilton - Abandoned 12" inch dildo, 15 years in the woods . Will it start ??? Not Clickbait. Gone wrong. In the hood.
narrated by Betty Wont
Just needs carburetor cleaned...
I used to work on that railway!!! Thats been there least since 2002
Any idea why they abandoned this line in the middle of the woods?
Wow man Mother Nature took over
@TripleDog Dare depending who funds the recovery, you might spend more than that scrap is worth (probably part of the reason it still sitting there)...i did notice a "stripped" wiring conduit...copper is pretty valuable, but looks to me someone came and took that copper already!
Yes i seen a date stenciled on a pressure tank 06-14-02.
@@ncgreg231 I didn't notice the stripped conduit, but I did notice copper wire still in that panel box he showed inside the passenger car, I'd say there hasn't been much stripping going on with it. Scraps so far down it's really getting not worth it even to the crack heads anymore. I remember when it was way up guys were stealing live power lines in the middle of the night. That takes some balls!! About once a month it would make the news one got electrocuted trying to do it.
Alright! You found the train, now we have to find the passengers that went with it
Also there’s this really cool set of tracks near where I live there abandoned, really old, there right next to a walking trail, and they lead right off a cliff
Good Video. You did a great job filming this. Thanks for sharing.
Saw one in Maine visible from an overpass with 6-8 inch trees growing in between the freight cars