Damaged locomotives

It is standard procedure to plate over windows and such when a locomotive is damaged and need to be moved? Are the plates of steel are meant to strengthen the cab and keep people from getting into the locomotive. Are the steel plates not rust resistant because of cost?
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=172607
What is with the piece of (plastic ?) bolted to where the plow used to be?

U-Haul...lots of questions that you can answer by a careful examination of the picture.

Only one side is plated over, so it's probably to keep out the elements, not to keep people from getting in. If that were the case, the whole thing would be plated over.

Common sense says that regular steel is cheaper and therefore likely used since that will be temporary.

Take a look at the pilot...there was quite a bit of damage to the unit, and since it will have to be sent back to the GE plant to get fixed, it's easy to assume that the plastic is also temproary (if it is indeed plastic) and at the very least, the damage necessitated the removal of the plow.

Dave Becker

That pilot looks like steel in gray primer to me. Most likely off the storeroom floor, already made up as a spare or replacement. Plastic would not last too long, and cause the unit, in actual service, to be tagged for an FRA defect.

pablo wrote:Only one side is plated over, so it's probably to keep out the elements, not to keep people from getting in. If that were the case, the whole thing would be plated over.

They don't want anyone boarding it, note the "Do not Board" on the engineer's side front step.

Okay, so the 15 had a heck of a hit on it's front, right side.

There's a shot a post or two below that one on the railpictures site that shows the 17 and 18 with the top 1/3rd of the locomotives crushed in a manor similar to a used pop can.

Rollovers, or did something fall on them in one of the quarries/loaders? And what did the 15 hit (or what was it hit by)?


Now, is the rebuilding/replacing covered under warrenty with GE, or is this "out of pocket" for QCM (or QCM's insurance company)? Just currious.

If you wreck your new F150, is it a warranty problem for Ford? Why would GE's warranty cover collisions?

It kinda looks like a person with an eye patch...

I work on the Cartier Railway...The 15 is still alive......

I caught nice pictures of it in the chopper...

NICE SHOTS! and pretty country. Where were those taken?

According to someone on the railpictures website, the unit went to Albia, IA (RELCO) for its wreck repairs

The shots are on the MP 69 bridge on the Cartier railroad in Quebec Canada