This involves NS GE #4001, with special paint job.
This is west of Lewistown,PA., NS Pittsburgh line.
Few details available, but apparently on a westbound empty coal hopper train.
Minor injuries to crew.
Photo credit to A. Varner
Photo by me from the dome of Stampede Pass last May in Roanoke yard.
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That'll buff right out.
Scrap it.
I dont think they will scrap it, it is one of their newer locos/rebuilds.
There is a good picture of the wreck on "AltoonaWorks site. The body on the engine is really messed up. It will be a major rebuild, I bet.
It's just Spring planting time. The crew was getting the garden dug.
(On a serious note, relieved to read the crew will be okay. That must have been a terrifying ride during the roll over.)
I'm am really glad the crew is ok considering how deep it did go down. What's really weird, I just saw one of her sisters today. NS 4002 leading 25Z in Rootstown Ohio this early evening. And not even 3 minutes after the tail end cleared, a gentlemen who was there also to see 4002, showed me that photo on this his of 4001. So, I just saw 4002 and 4001 today derailed. The question I do ask, do they know what caused the derailment yet?
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What's the background on the special paint job? It looks a bit like Delaware & Hudson heritage colors. Pretty awful looking spill, 'though. I'm glad the injuries were minor.
TRRR
MY BRAND NEW 4001! O the humanity! it did not even get the squeaks out yet.
ouch. glad everyone made it out alive. sad to see the 4001 wrecked. this one was already repainted as well. and just look at the pile of mangled coalporters that will have to be recycled.
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Looks like a switch problem or signals or maybe engineer
Strange, when you search for that phrase there are many derailments in the last few years in this area -is this area haunted?
They must have been moving at a good speed too. That's quite a tangled mess behind the locos.
Glad the crew is OK.
I grew up in this area and still railfan it when we go back to visit family each summer.
Typical speed for a mineral train - loaded or empty - traveling through that area would be about 49 mph.
Curt
Moonman posted:Looks like a switch problem or signals or maybe engineer
Strange, when you search for that phrase there are many derailments in the last few years in this area -is this area haunted?
Carl:
According to local lore, it is or, used to be anyhow.
I recollect there being a field surrounded by trees near this location where we used to go when I was in high school. An orbish light blob would appear in the far corner of the field and travel along the tree line. The story was the light was a lantern being carried by a headless brakeman who had been killed in a train wreck. He was searching for his head. We referred to the location simply as "The Light".
This was better than 46 - 47 years ago so I don't know if the legend is still around.
Curt
Well, it does make a person wince to see a new (or newly rebuilt) locomotive wrecked. Thanks for posting this.
The fact that only minor injuries were reported by the crew is yet another testimonial for the crashworthiness of the North American Safety Cab design.
TomlinsonRunRR posted:What's the background on the special paint job? It looks a bit like Delaware & Hudson heritage colors. Pretty awful looking spill, 'though. I'm glad the injuries were minor.
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The history why it's painted that way is because this and 4000 were the first set of units to be converted from Dash 9's to AC44C6M's which is DC to AC power. Roanoke had 2 also and they're 4002 and 4003. 4004 and 4005 are from Altoona. Blue is Altoona, and Brown or Tuscan Red horse mane is from Roanoke.
Tom Jr., thanks very much for the background on the livery. Your picture of 4002 is great.
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AltoonaWorks said that the tracks have reopened, traffic is moving and a bunch of mangled hoppers are in the field next to the track. Good shot of the GE engine, it is really beat up. Cb not as crushed as I thought. The EMD is sitting there looking relatively unscathed.