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 Views: 578 Collection Of:   Bernie Feltman
Locomotives: RMPX 6424(GP40-2)    Author:  Bernie Feltman
RMPX GP40-2 #6424 shows the effects of a collision and fire from a grade crossing accident on the Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway
Picture Categories: Roster,Wreck This picture is part of album:  Regional, Shortline, Industrial and various other railroad photos
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Name Type Comments 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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