How much damage totals a locomotive?

[luke]

It depends on the owner.


AMTK P42DC #7 is sitting in Chicago, IL, badly scorched after a grade crossing incident involving a garbage truck in
Crystal Springs, MS.

Another view of #7.

Rumor circulated that she would be scrapped.
I hope that's not the case!

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3 of the C44-9Ws (Dash 9s) involved in the fabled Kismet Crash, were heavily damaged, but BNSF rebuilt all of them!

BNSF 4715 began life as a 'fake warbonnet.'


After being rebuilt, she is in H-3 Colors.(Note the camera on the forward roof of the engine compartment, and the sign the engineer is making!)


BNSF 4059 a H-2, was leading the train that ran the red signal at Kismet.

She looked like this after the derailment.


After rebuild, she is in H-2 colors.


BNSF 4479 took the now classic video of the meet.


Just hours after the meet, this is what she & BNSF 4576 looked like.



After being righted, 4479 looked like this.



After rebuild, 4479 is a beautiful H-3,

& 4576 is an H-2.

[Crossingman18]

looks like scrapping is the ONLY option for Amtrak 7. with it being scorched like that who knows how much damage there is on the inside. Too bad.

[luke]

Here's some other units involved in the Kismet meet.

NS C40-9W 8967 was the 3rd unit on the train with the camera.

(BNSF 4576 was the 4th unit, and BNSF 4715 was the second unit.)

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NREX SD50 5473, the second unit on the train that ran the signals, was totaled.


BNSF C44-9W 1065 was the third unit, and was repainted into H3 colors
Before:


After:


FURX SD40-2 8110 was the 4th unit, and was repainted:


BNSF GP30 2437 was the 5th unit:


BNSF SD40-2 7065 was the 6th unit:
At site the day after the meet:


After minor work:



Lastly, BNSF C44-9W 997, the 7th & final unit:
Side view:


Front view:


After repair: