GA Train Wreck?

[Dough]

Does anybody know how CSX 7311, a C40-8W was rolled? I noticed it a few days ago at the very end of the Gainesville Midland branch in Gainesville, Georgia. It is pretty smashed up and it appears that the cab caught fire. Does anybody know where this happened?

I'll try to post pictures tomorrow, but any of you have a guess as to what they will do with it? The cab appears to be pretty much destroyed, but it apprently still rolls fine.

[UPTRAIN]

Please do so, I have no idea why that happened though.

[Dough]

Here are the pictures. BTW, I don't know what that conrail blue colored panel covers but it is the third off color one that I have seen in that exact same place!

[Anonymous]

There was most definately a cab fire, not to sure how all the handrails got bent over though, now you've really sparked my curiosity. [?]

[Dough]

It's pretty mangled on that side an on the top of it which you can't see in the pictures. I assume that it derailed somewhere and went on its side, but I just don't know where or when. I also don't know what happened to the crew or if they were in that engine at all. It is at the very end of that line so the may have pulled it in from somewhere else and are just storing it there...

[mvlandsw]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Dough

Here are the pictures. BTW, I don't know what that conrail blue colored panel covers but it is the third off color one that I have seen in that exact same place!

The blue panel is the cover for the cab air conditioning unit. It probably got switched in a shop with one from an ex Conrail engine .

[Dough]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mvlandsw
The blue panel is the cover for the cab air conditioning unit. It probably got switched in a shop with one from an ex Conrail engine .

Any idea why they are constantly switching the panels? I see the off color pieces pretty regularly, and their is no telling how many times they swap them out with pieces that match.

[mudchicken]

I'd love to see the transcripts from this engine at GETS at Erie, PA as this engine reports-in its condition...(visions of the Wicked With of The West after being doused with water: " I'm melting!....melting ... melting!") [(-D][(-D][(-D]

[Anonymous]

Looks like the Jefferson to Talmo grade still claims its victums. This little line has bragging rights on almost every other line when it comes to steam, last run Spring 1962. Sounds like the Decapod goasts still live