My good freind and "brother from a different mother" Rick Box, left me his collection of photo's he had collected. Some were taken by his dad, Art Box, who had been Yellowstone Div Sup when he died. So, I figured it is about time I shared these out here. This one is his dad, Art or A.E. Box out supervising the work, I am not 100% sure what this machine does, Rick told me it was the head of an undercutter, the rest of which was deep under the ties and 'lifting and cleaning' the ballast. I dunno, but the fedora was A.E.'s trademark. Another of A.E.'s pics, A Yellowstone someplace, by A.E. And sadly in a deadline, The 5008 dropping it's fire, Guess who is atop the wreck? A.E. Box. Don't know where, but would appreciate enlightenment. A Milw wreck....
Great set of historical photos! A little slice of life back then, simpler times! Wondering if the Milw units were the ones wrecked at Pandora, Wa in the late 70's. Was basically a meet there, when one train ran a signal and hit head on. Probably heading back to Bensenville Shops for rebuilding.
I did a search, and yes, this is from the Pandora wreck. What an appropriate name! Here's a link to the site; https://www.flickr.com/photos/14488898@N02/38244438094
Is there is any date information on the MILW wreck pictures? I am thinking these were from the Pandora incident.
Wow! That engine sure has a long and turbulent pedigree. Even after being almost destroyed - for some roads, totaled - it still works for its keep on NS. That's one tough engine.
Back in the day when EMD made a good unit.....and the roads thought it was a good idea to rebuild, rebuild, rebuild.
I once saw a company image of a SD40-2 with a C44-9W sitting on it. Just like someone took a giant hammer and knocked everything off above the sill, and placed the C44 perfectly on top of what was left. The frames on those SD's really tuff. I remember seeing the engine block and AR10 sitting a ways away from the crash the turbo was out in the weeds. The train the SD was on was tied down in a siding, no crew, (dark territory) the other train had thru authority, the switch was lined into the siding somehow. Don't remember how many died in that wreck. I was struck at how tuff that old EMD was, still sitting on the track with that C4 sitting there piggybacked.
Im sure there are images somewhere. If memory serves it was on former C&S, maybe Wyoming. Not sure on a date range, maybe early 2000's. The forces involved in these wrecks are unimaginable, the energy it takes to do this kind of damage, sometimes crazy things happen. But it was on a company officers laptop, so prolly not public.
While I'm unsure of the location and info on the wreck ya'll are discussing and the insane toughness of second-gen EMDs, I present IC 6012. Wrecked in 1974 to cleanly shear everything off the frame (John Eagan photos): https://www.flickr.com/photos/31385681@N02/31989343796/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/31385681@N02/31989343456/ Part of the cab: https://www.flickr.com/photos/31385681@N02/31989344316/ And rebuilt to become IC 6024 (Erich Linser photo): https://www.flickr.com/photos/169054274@N04/50565522778/