It's sad to see trains like that being left to rot and being vandalized. Awesome video Chris as well as the editing. Very well done.

He says we're "on the east coast ". the train says NJ Transit..LoL

The sound of leaves and gravel crushing at the bottom of your feet sounds so soothing.

I Love Trains, especially abandoned trains. This is one of those locations I've been meaning to get out too, just haven't made it yet. Thank you for sharing them with us

I am always so happy when I see you post a new video. Thanks for making them for us.

I bet it would be eerie to visit this line of ghost trains in the dark! Very spooky indeed! Great video.

No scrappers!.... ....Yet. Thanks for the tour Chris! 👍👍👍👍 Stayin tuned!

I always enjoy seeing what you post here Chris. Keep up the great work!

I've always found trains very fascinating, especially old trains. good video

Sad to see old trains abandoned. Grant it, they aren't that old but at least put them up for scrap. I really enjoy it when you show us trains.

So glad you are still exploring 😍! You are a brave guy to be venturing!

Now you’ve got explore the rest of the Lackawanna Cut-off! I think you’ve been to the Paulinskill Viaduct but in between these locomotives and the viaduct is 30 miles of an amazing feat of engineering including a tunnel! Work is just starting on the line to restore it after 40 years of abandonment so be careful in that respect.

Brilliant video Chris great to watch but such a waste. Very sad to see them sitting there just rotting away. Thanks for sharing Chris 🇬🇧🇺🇸

So wild they are all just abandoned. My bf is a conductor. Makes me love trains too, so cool to see. The places they go, all the stuff they bring us that keeps us running and all the sweet graffiti too! Plus an added bonus is all the wildlife he sees that I get to hear about. 😍 Thanks for sharing this video!

Great find! Thanks for sharing!

This is so crazy that they were left abandoned on these tracks.

Another great video Chris enjoyed very much

How cool is that!Such a waste,thank u for showing us this train Chris.

They are in Roxbury. Been here. So cool to see up close

I'm always so excited when I see a new video Chris!

Amazing content. Keep up the good work.

Great work

They couldn't sell them because the federal government still had a financial interest as they were given a grant based on a life of 25 years, but they retired them at 22, somewhere around 24 million.

Great video, Chris. I always love me a "ghost train"

Another interesting find. Great video!

What happens in the dark, comes out in the light. Thanks for new video, Christopher.

Chris, you scare me going to these remote places alone. I hope you carry protection!

Septa Also Had a ALP-44, Numbered 2308. It retired in 2018 and was put into storage with their AEM-7s until recently in 2022 when they were all scrapped. None were saved or spared.

this is the fastest i have ever clicked on a video...this channel is the best.

As a Swede it is sad to see these locomotives built here in my country vandalized and without duty! Think they have much more years to give!

Hard to believe they're still abandoned nearly 12 years since they last saw service on NJT. And that none of been preserved or surprisingly scrapped. Still, I hope some will get preserved before the day comes they're in danger of getting scrapped.

Amazing video pal

I know right weer you were! My friend lives right behind these tracks and we went on said train. I also know that bridge you were under I think I saw you car parked along the road! You should look up more stuff in our town you will find some interesting stuff. So where you were they were supposed to rebuild the train section but the NJ transit ran out of money. The NJ transit depot is over by Port Morris. Cool to see you in my home town! There was passanger cars there at one point as well.

These are not to far away from my workplace but I've never made the trip to see them, very cool to see!

Thanks Chris enjoyed it as always thanks for showing us can't wait for the next one

Awesome discovery!!🚝🚝

I Love seeing abandoned Trains. I've always been fascinated by Trains since I was a little Kid. You would think that each one of those things would cost a small fortune. Or large fortune I dunno but it seems like a poor decision to leave them all in the woods to rot. They should have cashed in on them while they were all running. Now they're just wasting away. Wonder if any of them can be started with a small tune up lol.

Kool video cheers 🇦🇺👍🏻

New viewer, love your interesting content. Gritty, well filmed, good commentary. I'm going to subscribe and share 👍

Thank you, Chris! ❤

Really weird how 28 engines end up to be vandalized, stripped of valuable metals and eventually rusting away as opposed to selling them or even donate them for the expenses of the transport to whomever can use one. Bureaucracy? Corporate indifference? Whatever, its a shameful waste.

Grew up pretty close to there. Will not spill the beans as to where. I wonder if NJ transit didn't think they would be vandalized.

Nice video

Good find,good content, you were in New Germany, err, Jersey, somewhere, keep them coming, thanks!!

NJ Transit, when Frank Lautenberg,US Senator-NJ was in charge of that operation. Geee, what a surprise. Corruption.

Those are really cool to see

Shortly after watching this video I was able to find them. Although these locomotives are neglected, they're far from abandoned, and the track they're parked on is a spur from the NJ Transit's Port Morris rail yard. It's NJ Transit property you were on to film this.

Great video, if you want to see something similiar and you are planing to visit Europe I would recommend you Ceska Trebova train graveyard in Czech republic, Bratislava Vychod Museum in Slovakia and Red Star train graveyard in Hungary

Hey bro , love your channel .. question , do you ever pack a handgun whilst trekking around the woods?

You would think they would at least sell them for scrap 🤷🏻‍♀️ fascinating though and thanks for sharing

I remember when the ALP-44s were new! Doesn't seem that long ago, and in fact, they were retired prematurely because NJ Transit bought all of those heavy multilevel cars and the 44s couldn't haul them as well as the newer ALP-46s. Such a waste. In fact, I can remember when NJ Transit leased a MARC AEM-7 and ran it down the Coast Line to Long Branch to evaluate performance before placing the ALP-44 order (the 44 being essentially the same as an AEM-7). I wonder if they can still even roll. They're gonna have to get 'em out of there somehow when they start using the new Andover extension on the Lackawanna Cutoff.

G'day mate love ya 📹 Joe down under

Dude 4:16 a girls voice says something about a conductor??? Were you alone or did someone go with you coz that's freaky

So much waste. I was thinking the same thing, if they just not powerful enough why not sell them. Crazy

Looks like the tracks in stanhope that go out to the Delaware water gap

Awesome 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Lackawanna cutoff, It will be restored in a few years. The tracks under those locomotives was part of an earlier "restoration" that was paused. Chuck Walsh did an entire series on The Lackawanna Cutoff

Awesome!! 👌🎉🇮🇳🎉👌

Your on the east coast. Come up to Cape Cod and visit The Dome in Woods Hole, the oldest surviving geodesic dome in the world built by Buckminster Fuller. The Dome sits on a slight hill, and belongs to a larger, two-story motel complex also built in 1953-1954, originally known as the Nautilus Motel,

Given how the Northeast transit routes are mostly electrified, couldn't they sell these to a smaller, more local transit authority to get more miles from these locomotives? I really hate it when government agencies do this wasting our tax money!

That's a lot of scrap metal there!

Looks like there is lots of scrap copper left in these things very surprising its not all ripped out

As a resident of NJ , it wouldn’t be NJ if we don’t get taxed and the state loves to waste !! NJ Transit Police don’t mess around !!

Looks like a cool spot for an overnight challenge

Wow!

Nothing better than the sound of 2 strokes!

if you are ever in jackson ky there is one abandoned right in town you can check out.

Hi great video. Question. Did they ever move this abandoned train and the railroad tracks?

Surreal.

Hi, Chris, I don't know about the "Mad Max" part, but this sure appears to be a probably successful effort to bilk some one (either corporate investors, the rail riding public or the tax payers) out of a massive and probably ill advised investment in a lot of possibly outdated equipment. God Bless and stay safe.

Bro I absolutely love your channel definitely the coolest finds! I appreciate your work, ever since your Mt St Helens video years back I look forward to all your updates!! Stay safe and be well!💪💪👍👍

This would piss me off if I was a NJ taxpayer. Even if they couldn't sell the trains whole, they ABSOLUTELY could've recouped tens of thousands of dollars EACH in parts and scrap. I'm actually shocked more hasn't been stolen. That big DC motor you showed a clip of with the fan spinning? There are several of those motors on each train and can easily be sold for 2-300+ each!

That's crazy

I think NJ Outdoor Adventures channel covered this some years ago...before he got into all the "Van Life" stuff.

Ty for another great video.

Unreal! What a waste

Great video! 👍

Those are supposed to be disappearing from that track. The track that they are on is being rebuilt, which was an old line removed a looong time ago.

That is incredible how would you ever know these things exist. Thanks so much for the awesome story. Every country is the same money waste and tax payers foot the bill. The government still gives them a raise for the amazing job they are doing.

More than likely Chris, they're in a deadline (meaning out of service) and are awaiting final disposal.

Great spots for the Homeless...

Not abandoned but retired. AEM7s are the goats

It's New Jersey, they just fell off a truck.

Is there not some kind of break area and restrooms in these things? Must not have gone on very long trips. Very cool.

All of those recyclable resources just left to rot. Terrible

That's one of the saddest things I've ever seen. I could see SEPTA doing something like this, but NJ Transit? I thought they had more pride than that.

No reason to sell them off, NJ taxpayers have bottomless pockets.

Great video, I actually have a copy of 4427's (first engine in the line) final inspection record from NJT

lol..."Let's just say we're on the East Coast.".

It's unfortunate that certain groups of people feel the need to destroy and spray paint everything.

Post10 was also there if im not wrong.

There is a huge graveyard of decommissioned TGV trains in France. They are in a protected area though and thus not so vandalized. Are they going to be dismantled and recycled? Who knows? Maybe Japan also has such a place too.

What a waste! Get them cleaned up and let homeless people live in them until they find their feet.

Mad that something as big as a train could just be left abandoned there to rot and ruin

This is cool 🙏🏾💪🏾

I wish people on the Internet would stop using the word abandon without doing proper homework, and just trying to get click bait. They are on storage they were sealed tight until people broke into them, but those locomotives are still being paid for they cannot sell them or scrap them. The state have to hold onto them till the lease is paid off. They were used in service for a short amount of time before they decided to go with the new modified locomotives that are diesel/electric. That track is the old Lackawanna cut off to Pennsylvania. It was tore up by Conrail so that they wouldn’t have a freight competitor back in the late 70s. Without permission the state owns the right of way they are currently in the process of restoring the right of way today service will return to at least Andover with future plans returning back to Pennsylvania .

Mad Max" Looking Train. never heard of it .. But i do no were a few of the cars n trucks are from mad max 2 "Coober Pedy western Australia. Just go to KZfaq n type in Coober Pedy n you'll come across the upload/video.

Weren't these the engines that were flooded in SuperStorm Sandy when the yard in Hoboken flooded out? I'm thinking they were written off by the insurance company.

Im surprised it hasn't been gutted yet for all the Scrap metal

The graffiti on the train reminded me of some historic graffiti I heard about, maybe saw a documentary, I don't remember. Some of it dated back to the civil war. Oh it may have been at Belle Grove Plantation in Middletown Va. Went there several years ago. The tour guide showed where some civil war soldiers carved there names on some door posts. Also an old church in Mt Jackson Va discovered some historic graffiti on walls inside church, documented by experts and covered with hard transparent glass or plastic to preserve it. I thought that was interesting