Yep. We're going to a great amount of effort to ensure that. That was one of my personal tenants when we started talking about acquiring the whole lot.

Operation Toy Train moved its newly-acquired former NY&GL equipment out of Passaic, NJ and up to Lackawaxen, PA over the past two days. On Saturday in a logistically challenging move, the 13 cars were moved by the Morristown & Erie about four miles off the former NY&GL Dundee Spur and over NJ Transit's Bergen County Line from Island Yard in Passaic, NJ to the Susquehanna at Passaic Junction (Saddle Brook, NJ). Today, the NYS&W moved these 13 cars, plus three additional cars, from Passaic Junction via their own trackage and Metro-North's Port Jervis Line about 121 miles up to Lackawaxen, PA to interchange to the Delaware, Lackawaxen & Stourbridge, where the equipment will reside for the time being.

In addition to our significant gratitude to the equipment's donor (Passaic Street Properties), Operation Toy Train is very grateful to both the M&E and the NYS&W for their assistance in these moves. The newest piece of equipment leaving the NY&GL was a boxcar built in 1968, so the fact that we were able to move 13 pieces of historic equipment 125 miles off of a legally abandoned railroad and over active tracks owned by two commuter agencies is a testament to the lengths both freight roads went through to help us with the extensive planning and logistics that led to this past weekend's success. All of these moves were completed legally and in compliance with applicable federal regulations. Also, special shout out to the folks at both Softrail (who supplied our new AEI tags with less than 24 hours turnaround time) and The Andersons (whose last-minute repairs on Friday ensured that this complicated move went off without a hitch).

As of right now, OTT's plans are to retain the three Erie cabooses (TOYX C121, C262, and C340) and former TTX flatcar (TOYX 2112) for display in the near future at the Port Jervis Transportation Museum. Perhaps most importantly, we will also be keeping and specially outfitting the former CN baggage car (TOYX 1001) for use on our annual Toys for Tots collection train. Our disposition plans for the remaining eight pieces (the two GP9s, the FA-1 power car, the two coaches, and the three boxcars) will be announced soon!

NOTE: The extra caboose (NYC 22130) that was moved to Lackawaxen with OTT's equipment was recently acquired by The Conrail Historical Society from CSX and is going to be fully restored at Honesdale and leased to the Stourbridge. The two tank cars in the consist were recently acquired by the Stourbridge from Malt Products. These three cars have no affiliation with Operation Toy Train besides the fact that they were moved in the same train with OTT's equipment.


M&E #20 dragging the Operation Toy Train consist (with an extra rogue hopper car leftover from the NY&GL's last freight activity) up Monroe Street in Garfield, NJ at 9:30AM on Saturday, October 3, 2020. This is the last street running in New Jersey, and it will be removed in the coming weeks. Photo by Rudy Garbely.

Congratulations Rudy! That was a huge hurdle.

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