I started this for fun to see what you have. Post a pic of a railroad locomotive that has been in a wreck. This thread is mostly like a compitition. There is no prize. You can post a pic from anywhere you wish.
I'll start (with a weak one):
GP10 versus Ma Nature. Washout wins...
LC
it hit a C39-8 head on.
Oh yeah, well everything on this unit
BELOW the HOOD was sheared off.
Beat that!
BTW nice pics so far
How about a VIDEO of the accident?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PweRsxbN3c
You can't see the damage that resulted, but the accident is heart-rending.
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
nsrayman wrote: it hit a C39-8 head on.
I think this one wins for Best Wrecked Loco.
But are there anymore?
Take a Ride on the Scenic Line!
From the San Timoteo Cyn derailment on 8/26/06.
Where did you get this photo .
Did you take this pic or did you borrow it from someone?
Here is Chesapeake & Albemarle GP38 #3841 after it was run through an open drawbridge.
The train crashed through the counterweight of the raised bridge and the locomotive ended up hanging half-off the bridge over the canal.
John
If everybody is thinking alike, then nobody is really thinking.
http://photobucket.com/tandarailroad/
I still think the best wrecked locomotive pic is the French steamer that broke through the back wall of the station (about three stories up) and ended up nose down in the street.
In all honesty, this whole idea is morbid. Sort of like asking, "What's your favorite picture of a murder victim?"
Chuck
I don't think there's anything morbid about looking at pictures of wrecked locomotives, as long as no-one was killed or seriously maimed in the wreck. I guess it's like that sneaking delight we take in watching a "Demolition Derby" where there's lots of mayhem but no-one gets killed, or a NASCAR pile-up where everyone involved walks away. But a fatal wreck, no I wouldn't care to see that AT ALL.
Well, then by your definition, some of these photos are morbid. That photo of the NS locomotive that hit a C39-8 head on in Sugar Valley, GA? Three crewmen died in that accident, at least one of them burned to death. The Engineer of a northbound train fell alseep and pushed the throttle, causing his train to come out of the siding into the path of a southbound train.
You could add CP M-630 4552 to the list of accidents in which a fatality occurred. The photo was taken after it struck a large boulder west of Spences Bridge, BC on 17-Mar-1974. CP 4552 derailed and plunged over cliff and landed on the TransCanada Highway. The trailing SD40 and several cars landed on top of the 4552.
The coroner's prompted the Canadian government to require lead locomotives have operable ditch lights when operating west of Jasper, AB [on CN] and Calgary, AB [on CP].
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