There's something you don't see too often. Nicely captured - finally a wreck shot of interest.
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Nathan, I'm quite sure that what is left of 6943 will be cut on site and shipped by truck to the scrappers. They, already, have removed the prime mover and the power trucks so what's left...shell and some electronics that are more than likely out of date by now.
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I hope the crew fared better than this poor loco.
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Looks like somebody followed the BNSF In-house Terriorist Handbook. Rear ending another train makes you wonder if a FRED was used as a target instead of its intended purpose.
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Thank you everyone for the comments.
From what I have learned through inside sources, the baretable passed a signal that was burned out at 40 mph (According to the GCOR, you are to treat this as a restricting signal, moving at no more than 20 mph and prepared to stop the train in half the range of vision). The engineer plugged the train upon seeing the ETD of the stack. but it was too late by then. They hit at a little over 20 mph. As for injuries, the crews from the baretable and Z trains were taken to the hospital and released later that day, with the worst injury being a broken ankle
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Wow, Just wow. I didn't take long for that unit to be in a wreck and then scraped. Good catch
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Something looks different from other BNSF units. But I cant put my finger on it.
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"It'll buff."
Great photo Mike
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The new 6943 features the new truckless hover technology, along with the experimental central "veranda" style so deadheading crews can catch some rays... So far the reception has been mixed, at best. ;^)
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I guess that would be "featured". ">(
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Just another one of BNSF's 2,000 GEVOs!
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