RMPX GP40-2 #6424 shows the effects of a collision and fire from a grade crossing accident on the Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway
RMPX GP40-2 #6424 was built November 1979 as DT&I #424 and later became Grand Trunk & Western #6424. Unit was scrapped after grade crossing accident with cotton truck at Goodway, Alabama
Date:
11/29/2003
Location:
Huxford, AL
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585
Collection Of:
Bernie Feltman
Locomotives:
RMPX 6424(GP40-2)
Author:
Bernie Feltman
Picture Categories: Roster,Wreck
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Regional, Shortline, Industrial and various other railroad photos
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Date
Jeffrey Allen
General
Not a good day on the railroad.
12/21/2011 12:43:30 AM
Charles Burgess
General
Had to be scary for the crew.
12/21/2011 1:33:40 AM
Robert Farkas
General
The damage caused by the firs gives this an almost unworldly feeling as if the metal was dancing in the wind almost like the weeds on the left seem to be doing.
12/21/2011 8:30:40 AM
Fred Stuckmann
General
Great shots today.
12/21/2011 10:48:23 AM
Charles Stookey
General
I can still see cotton on the nose. How about the crew and truck driver?
12/21/2011 12:41:32 PM
Karl Rethwisch
General
Boy, that ol' girl took a beatin' !!
12/21/2011 10:30:18 PM
David Barrentine
General
One of the few incidents where the truck got the better of the train.
12/22/2011 8:11:46 AM
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