This is early Hulcher. Nice work E127S.
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That's only a D6 or D7, it's not going anywhere with that box! He's just got a blade under the roof to get something under it so the hook above can lift.
Yes, using a beefed-up Cat 583 pipelayer tractor really revolutionized wreck recovery, but it takes a lowboy to transport each tractor to the site.
It takes four 583's to dead-lift a locomotive & carry it.
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I think lots of factors went into outsourcing derailment clean-up. You mention speed of equipment used by companies like Hulcher. At the Seaboard Coast Line yard in Manchester, Georgia, the wreck train was crewed by car inspectors and roadway crews assigned to the yard. When their positions were eliminated as the yard was downsized, there were no longer any local workers available to operate the wrecker train. Therefore, train eliminated. I also think that the contractors in derailment cleanup gain a level of expertise by the sheer number of derailments they are contracted to remove. A crew on the wreck train in Manchester might have seen action only two or three times a year, if that much.
My thoughts on the caption of a very good photograph
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