I did not know that these things were so flexible.
the internal damage must be extensive
You know, in my previous vocation we had a technical term for that: D’OH!
Is that why we should use dish instead of cable?
I would say that engine is totaled. I wonder what caused it. You would think that people doing this kind of routine lifting would know their stuff.
Great camera work-- not.
ouch! That’s gonna cost a few bucks…
Not really. The locomotive was being unloaded in Owendo, Gabon.
When you say “not really,” what are you referring to?
I think he is saying that Gabonese longshoremen don’t really have a lot of experience with heavy lifts like these. Note though that Welsh longshoremen dropped a brand-new GE locomotive after successfully unloading 300+ EMD JT42CWR locomotives.
The conveying entity would likely have been responsible for the unloading as much as they were responsible for loading it…am I not correct? Is it only longshoremen who sling loads over the gunwales, or does the ship/owner take responsibility? I ask because I obviously know little about seaport operations. But it would seem right that the locomotive ceases to be the ship’s responsbility once the item is set upon the dock surface and the slings removed.
Crandell
So whose is it between the removal of the slings and it “landing” on the dock? [:o)]
If they did that to a steam engine I’d be yelling for someone to get lethal injection.
The steam locomotive built by the Chinese for the Boone and Scenic Valley RY (in Boone, Iowa) was dropped duing the unloading on the west coast. The Chinese company sent several people to inspect the engine and repair damage… apparently it was not dropped quite as far as the one in this video!
Wow, thanks for sharing. After a life time of modeling in HO, can guess we’ll find this locomotive on E-Bay for parts cheap?
Which is why one of the first safety rules around crane operations is “Never be under a lift !”
And to think I can get yelled at for dropping a pizza before it gets to the customer.
It looks like the frame has a very visible tweak in it.
OOPS!!!
Thx IGN
After seeing that thing flex like that I cannot imagine how many things are out of critical alignment or suffering cracked or broken mounts. That locomotive is scrap, although it might have use as an “autopsy victim” by the builder to see what did break and how it broke for future design enhancements.
Someone will be able to salvage alot of parts off of this wreck but the frame, trucks and likely the motor block suffered permanent damage from the looks of the impact. being in a 3rd world country I wonder how the legal aspect will get worked out. Lucky for the RR its on video, the liability is clearly on whoever owned that support sling.
To this day if you know what you’re looking for (I don’t, it was pointed out to me once) you can still see evidence of the damage and subsequent repairs.
Jeff