Posted by railtrekker on March 22, 2010  Thats one way to take care of the non self aligning coupler problem! Great shot! Posted by Casey Thomason on March 23, 2010  The SW1500's do not have alignment control drawbars, so spacing them out this way will help to keep the drawbars straight during the long transit move. They tried moving 5 of these last month, and a series of events caused a derailment enroute causing damage to the SW1500's, you can see some of the damage in this photo: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=318157 Posted by Darrell Krueger on March 23, 2010  I would have hoped that CSX learned their lesson from the Flomaton, AL derailment a couple years prior. Posted by Mike Roth on March 26, 2010  TRRA made a big mistake getting rid of these. They will be missed in St Louis.

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