Probably the rails spread and there was a steep grade on one side and rolled.
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Shame, I think those units were only a few years old.
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A rollover for sure in that there is no nose or tail damage. Units may be on their way to Boise for rebuild.
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QCM 17 and 18 were wrecked following a situation where the conductor on the train presumably bottled the air on the last 120 cars of his 160 car ore train following attempts to correct a airbrake issue with the 40th car. The train then proceeded downhill to a rotary unloader where it wrecked after it became a runaway due to the situation named above.
The rotary dumper is a complete loss and will take about half a year to replace.
The crew survived.
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| Posted by Jordan on January 9, 2007 | |
There's a fairly new company called Relco in Albia itself that does wreck repair, locomotive remanufacturing, upgrading, maintenance, and other stuff. That's my guess as to where they're going.
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My brother sent me a few photos of the rotator assembly. It's quite a mess!
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| Posted by Shawn Duren on January 12, 2007 | |
It is too bad to see this locomotive in this condition, as I saw it leading a loaded ore train at Fox back in July.
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| Posted by Pierre Garnier on January 15, 2007 | |
My brother is working for that company and he show me a few pictures of that accident, like Brian said , it's a mess!!!
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17 & 18 live again! Caught these two units today on a CP stack train that came through Michigan. They looked beautiful with their new paint jobs. Unfortunately the sky was overcast and the lighting wasn't the greatest, so I wasn't able to get some quality shots.
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