A fleet of old Comet III rail cars that NJ Transit sidelined for 13 years in a train yard in Bay Head — and were destroyed by Hurricane Sandy — are about to make their last trip to the scrap yard.

Deteriorating in a train yard in Bay Head for the past 13 years are 42 Comet III rail cars, sidelined by the better multilevel cars. Flooded by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, they were also deemed unusable.