I don't know much about this railway operation I guess it started up in 2008 then operations ended in 2010.

New River Railway Equipment on March 11, 2017
http://www.railpictures.net/showimage.p ... ey=4462373

Here's What They Had In The Following:

- Reading Railroad 520 ALCO RS-3 Diesel Locomotive (In Southern Railway Paint)
- New York Central Combine (In Norfolk & Western/Norfolk Southern Paint)
- Ontario Northland or Canadian National Passenger Car (Also In NW/NS Paint)

Other Pictures & Videos

SOU/RDG 520 Back @ TVRM in 2007
http://railpictures.net/photo/212610/
http://railpictures.net/photo/208583/

SOU/RDG 520 Operating Pics
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=3349976
http://railpictures.net/photo/255667/

SOU/RDG 520 Operating Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzKdFT39fzw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccce1X3TZtU&t=123s

Sitting In The Weeds 2009-2010
http://railpictures.net/photo/266326/

Sitting In The Weeds 2014
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=3821002

I'm thinking this rail equipment above might be in need a new home. The top photolink cleary looks abandon...missing parts...fading paint...

Enjoy?!?! -_-

Saddest part is how quickly things have deteriorated and gone missing in just 3 years since the 2014 picture, but nothing too bad in the time frame of the 2010-2014 pictures.

I inspected this equipment in 2015 and contacted the owners to make an offer. Not a no, but a HELL NO. Got the old "We have plans for it..."

The only thing wrong at the time was some wiring pulled from under one of the coaches, and the traction motor leads cut underneath. Otherwise everything else was complete on the loco and the cab was locked up. Now look at it...

RJ Corman owns the tracks they are sitting on, and at the time there were no washouts or other major blockages and she could have been repaired and gotten to interchange.

As I understand it now there are several washouts some major. The roads in and out would make a snake dizzy. The only way she is coming out of there now without major trackwork is in little pieces in the back of a scrappers truck.

Sad.

The line was never owned by RJ Corman as far as I know, it was owned by the coal mine - National Coal Corporation. RJ Corman had a contract to operate the coal trains for the mine to deliver them to Oneida, Tennessee, one of several companies that had the contract over several years. At first, quite a bit of track work was conducted, including replacing at least one bridge. However, this ended as the coal business went away.

In March 2008, I and the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum operated a charter over the line using this equipment, and a hirail truck north of the missing bridge. While the weather wasn't the greatest, the trip was a great day. I looked at doing the charter again a year or so later, but met with RJ Corman who said that the excursion operator wasn't allowed to operate because they had violated a number of operating and safety rules and the FRA was involved. Apparently, one of the excursion train's officers took the locomotive out and operated past his limits, hitting a track inspector's hirail. This was in an area with no cell or radio service. That was the operating end of the operation as a number of requirements came about due to this issue.

It is sad to see the equipment still sitting there, basically abandoned.

Thanks for the clarification on the ownership of the line.

That would be a good reason to not let them operate anymore.

I am posting this here as it is germane too the subject matter, I have nothing whatsoever to do with the video, so please, don't shoot the messenger, who knows better. https://youtu.be/OD87tUYwOfo

Won't shoot you as the messenger Andy.
Perhaps one of those -Producer Warnings- of "Viewer Discretion Advised" applies.

John