Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

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.

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.

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: