www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=92222
Can you say,OUCH!
There goes 4 million dollars… Some of it could probably be savaged, or the whole thing rebuilt.
Looks like it’s already in the salvage yard. Make sure you know where the parts for your EMD are coming from!
We had a similar fire to this when the Engine Protection Device failed to shut down the engine. There was an intense fire. The loco is now back in traffic and you wouldn’t know it had been burnt. Fires blister much of the paintwork and also the smoke damage can make it look a lot worse than it is. The bare metal soon rusts making a sorry looking loco. It’s things like flexible hoses and wiring that take the damage. Obviously its hard to tell looking at the picture how much damage has been done and what the cause was. What might seem a right off may be back in traffic after a few months at a dedicated workshop. It will be interesting to see the outcome.
UP: “Building America, Then Buning it Down”
Adrianspeeder
It actually looks worse than it is probally. NRE will have to rewire replace all the hoses and check out the engine for any heat related cracks in the power assemblies. Then after doing all that replace the sheet metal and repaint from the # of the locomotive looks to be a ex-SP engine that was repainted.
Mechanical things have failures…mechanics repair parts that fail.
Just another day in the back shop.
I have seen GEs with flames shooting from the stack, but I’ve never seen anything like that!
I don’t see that much fire damage. Looks to me like they took the sheet metal off the center of the loco already.
For some reason i want that switcher cab that is sittin off to the right. Would make a good tree fort with air horns and everything.
Adrianspeeder
That reminds me of a used car listing I saw a couple of years ago that said it had had a “Small Engine Fire”
Ouch!!! Can i have the cab on the ground???
I was thinking the same thing![^]
The engineer or conductor must have had beans for lunch [:p][(-D]
Take care,
Russell
I would have junked the engine, stored it for parts… used the 4 million or whatever to get more power. Possibly bigger and stronger power that does not exhibit the root cause of the flaw that created this damage. But that is just me.
Hey guys- do me a favor, Leve the thermostat BELOW 78 Degrees.
UP–Up in Phlames[(-D][(-D][(-D]
To be really tough, I would say that the paint and fireproofing is really inadequate. It must stand up to all conditions faced in railroading.
What I find very surprising is that the fuel did not go up as well. That tank appears to be still intact.
mmmmmmmmm toasty I wonder who caused that one. ‘’ When you play with a engine too long it will go boom then you run and say good bye UP SD70’’ also I wonder if they did that because they were hungry so the can roast marshmellows
kevin
I see they are already cutting up SW1500s.