The news story said nothing about the locomotive derailing, but said it damaged switches. That means it ran through trailing point switches that were not lined for the locomotive. That will cause the breakable link in the switch machine linkage to break, as designed. A competent track repair tech can repair that in about 15 minutes, with a $100 replacement link. $30,000 per switch? I don't think so.
However, if there was additional damage to the track, the costs could escalate fast.
