Equipment Moving Home

Equipment is moving! The higher-profile equipment move involved New York Central 100, the first S-motor, and New York Central 278, the last T-motor. These two arrived at their new home in Danbury, Connecticut, yesterday (January 2nd) and were unloaded today. The photos above and below come from the Railfan & Railroad Facebook page.

The T-motor was placed back on its trucks, but the S-motor was deposited on a flatcar. Photos suggest that the S-motor took some serious damage to both its body and underframe while being extracted from its longtime home in Glenmont, New York, so that may have something to do with it. It looks like the T-motor mercifully fared better.

And at the other end of the country, the Arizona Street Railway Museum / Phoenix Trolley Museum has managed to extract two of their Phoenix Street Railway city cars, PSR 504 and PSR 116, from a building on the south side of downtown Phoenix. The two cars had been stored there since the museum was evicted from its longtime home at Deck Park at the end of 2017, but they're now at the museum's new home along Grand Avenue northwest of downtown. The above photo is from the museum's Facebook page and shows (L-R) car 504, car 116, and car 509, which was rescued in 2020 and still more house than streetcar. The last time three Phoenix city cars were seen together was probably 1948. All of the equipment in this post - NYC 100 and 278, and the three Phoenix cars - have had any "stored off-site" notations removed.