It would be great if Caltrain would donate an f40 and a cab-car to PLA/NCRY at Niles Canyon. This is a huge part of Bay Area Railroad history, and a couple pieces should be saved.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Their gallery cars are so iconic tho!
That was only 12 cars - not 14! Caltrain explained that it urgently needs to make secure storage space for the new incoming 7-car electric trains. The old cars will initially be stored offsite (in the north Bay on SMART-owned tracks) until Caltrain can sell as many as possible. Only ones that do not sell will be scrapped.
I’m not sure if I heard it right, I think I heard at one time corridor might pick up a couple of those cars or San Joaquin perhaps if they’re lucky they may go down to Los Angeles who knows. I just hope that a lot of these cars get saved or preserved.
The gallery double Decker passenger cars are my favorite passenger cars i have and had good memories on them and i will miss them so much I'm really sad 😭
Look like our Nippon Sharyo cars in Chicago, though with what appear to be older style trucks. Not sure why they'd need to be retired, considering we still have Budd and Pullman gallery cars from the 60s still in revenue service.
@@DavidJones31974Suppose that makes sense, yes. I'm sure they'll be put up for sale, just like a number of the former Metra bilevels have found themselves in various places around the country. In fact, at IRM we took delivery of two Pullman-built gallery cars from the Mahoning Valley Railway, that ended up there after they were retired from Metra. Not sure if we'll have them repainted Northwestern green and yellow, or RTA beige and red. Not my department, actually.
If metra had a brain they would buy these surplus cars... The UP distric is short equipment, and these cars are built to almost the same specs as Metra's Nippon cars.
@SynchroScore Yes, I'm aware of the purchase, but we won't see them until 2025. And I will bet those cars will stay in captive service together, most likely on the BNSF. (There is no guarantee that they will be interoperable with our current gallery fleet) We need spare equipment now. The Peterson Ridge station will open soon, and the UP schedules will add even more trains to an already stressed maintenance plan.
Geez! They replaced the old Espee Pullman gallery cars about 1980, so they are around 40 years old. They still have a lot of life left in them. The new electric cars are replacing them already? Now that I think on it, they can easily be hauled by diesels until the electrification is turned on this fall. Sad to see them go. Will someone pick them up as happened with the old Espee cars? I hope so. 😢😢
When I was a kid SP was still running the Harriman Suburbans except in mixed consists with their Pullman gallery cars. Maybe just one or two Harriman cars. I knew SP would be phasing them out so I wanted to ride in them any chance I got. I miss the SP Pullman gallery cars and will also miss the Nippon Sharyo's. Sometime in the early 2000's I remember Caltrain adding at least one vintage gallery car design to their fleet mixed with the Nippon Sharyo's. It was either an ACF or Pullman gallery car that may of been a Metra surplus car that originally served on the Chicago & Northwestern. I believe Caltrain was just leasing it on a short term basis due to limited capacity at the time. It was an interesting sight.
It would be great if Caltrain would donate an f40 and a cab-car to PLA/NCRY at Niles Canyon. This is a huge part of Bay Area Railroad history, and a couple pieces should be saved.
I agree
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Their gallery cars are so iconic tho!
They seem to have steel plates on the gangway, while metra's bilevels mostly have straight rubber ones on the Nippon cars
This makes me quite sad, some of my favorite memories on Caltrain have been on the gallery cars. I will miss them when they're all gone!
That was only 12 cars - not 14! Caltrain explained that it urgently needs to make secure storage space for the new incoming 7-car electric trains. The old cars will initially be stored offsite (in the north Bay on SMART-owned tracks) until Caltrain can sell as many as possible. Only ones that do not sell will be scrapped.
They count the 2 engines that makes it 14
Two locomotives 12 cars
I’m not sure if I heard it right, I think I heard at one time corridor might pick up a couple of those cars or San Joaquin perhaps if they’re lucky they may go down to Los Angeles who knows. I just hope that a lot of these cars get saved or preserved.
time to say goodbye to old trains, finally it's time for their retirement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yep
The gallery double Decker passenger cars are my favorite passenger cars i have and had good memories on them and i will miss them so much I'm really sad 😭
Look like our Nippon Sharyo cars in Chicago, though with what appear to be older style trucks. Not sure why they'd need to be retired, considering we still have Budd and Pullman gallery cars from the 60s still in revenue service.
They are retiring because Caltrain has the new emu
@@DavidJones31974Suppose that makes sense, yes. I'm sure they'll be put up for sale, just like a number of the former Metra bilevels have found themselves in various places around the country. In fact, at IRM we took delivery of two Pullman-built gallery cars from the Mahoning Valley Railway, that ended up there after they were retired from Metra. Not sure if we'll have them repainted Northwestern green and yellow, or RTA beige and red. Not my department, actually.
If metra had a brain they would buy these surplus cars... The UP distric is short equipment, and these cars are built to almost the same specs as Metra's Nippon cars.
@@erict5234 Perhaps they will. Metra has recently signed contracts for a series of new bilevel cars.
@SynchroScore Yes, I'm aware of the purchase, but we won't see them until 2025. And I will bet those cars will stay in captive service together, most likely on the BNSF. (There is no guarantee that they will be interoperable with our current gallery fleet) We need spare equipment now. The Peterson Ridge station will open soon, and the UP schedules will add even more trains to an already stressed maintenance plan.
Good catch
Thank you!
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Geez! They replaced the old Espee Pullman gallery cars about 1980, so they are around 40 years old. They still have a lot of life left in them. The new electric cars are replacing them already? Now that I think on it, they can easily be hauled by diesels until the electrification is turned on this fall. Sad to see them go. Will someone pick them up as happened with the old Espee cars? I hope so. 😢😢
Yep they been around for a long time sad to see the gallery cars go for sure they will always bring back memories
3 of the 50s era gallery cars survive at the Golden gate railroad Museum
When I was a kid SP was still running the Harriman Suburbans except in mixed consists with their Pullman gallery cars. Maybe just one or two Harriman cars. I knew SP would be phasing them out so I wanted to ride in them any chance I got. I miss the SP Pullman gallery cars and will also miss the Nippon Sharyo's. Sometime in the early 2000's I remember Caltrain adding at least one vintage gallery car design to their fleet mixed with the Nippon Sharyo's. It was either an ACF or Pullman gallery car that may of been a Metra surplus car that originally served on the Chicago & Northwestern. I believe Caltrain was just leasing it on a short term basis due to limited capacity at the time. It was an interesting sight.
Looks like people missed the message on the information screen. Just hope there wasn’t a fast train in the area.
Is that Lawrence Expressway on top of the Tracks?
Look like chicago Metra cars?
Same design. I believe these models are Nippon Sharyo like the newer Metra cars.
They do it’s the same design
I thought these trains can’t move with their doors open
Why are people so cheerful taking photos of a funeral Train? Do they do that for all Trains?
Me and some of our friends were at the tower watching it pass by, using binoculars to see it in the distance. Sad to see these cars go😢.
Yep it’s sad to see it go I remember riding them when I was younger it sure will always be a nostalgic
God 901 looks rough
Indeed it does
Have these cars been out of service for a while?
i believe they were retired sometime last year
Sorry I Missed I Had To Leave David Jones
It’s all good
BYE BYE Caltrain no I Like Electric Trains
Nice