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For Sale: 4 Weedy, Rusty Relics of a Doomed Rail Project

By THOMAS KAPLAN

Published: May 31, 2012

 

GLENVILLE, N.Y. — On sagging train tracks in an industrial park sit four rusting passenger trains, once the cornerstone of an ambitious plan to create a high-speed rail line between New York City and Albany.

 

But the necessary track improvements never happened. Trains that the state paid $70 million to refurbish did not work. Then the state accused Amtrak of stealing several of them by towing them to Delaware and never bringing them back.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/nyregion/cuomo-administration-looks-to-sell-4-trains-from-failed-rail-project.html?_r=3&ref=nyregion

 

*time to move on into the 21st century...