Canadian Railroads > MLW Monday

BCOL 715 had a bad day, June 18, 1984, at mile 474.4 Chetwynd subdivision. 715 was the middle unit on a southbound work train that collided with the northbound Fort James Switcher. Fortunately, crews escaped the accident with non'life threatening injuries.
715 at the wreck site, few hours after the collision.
715 on a flat car, going to Squamish for repairs.
715, repaired and back in service, red white and blue at Prince George, late September 1985.
Doug

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Those big M's looked great in the red, white and blue scheme.

Neat series. The mismatch of frame heights on GM vs. big MLW sure had consequences. I saw the results of a similar thing sitting at Alyth once. The M was missing everything below the deck; the SD had bent front handrails.
Fred



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/25/24 14:35 by feclark.

In this incident, the MLW's survived and returned to service after repairs. The SD40's involved were "retired" from the loco roster.
Doug
feclark Wrote:
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> Neat series. The mismatch of frame heights on GM
> vs. big MLW sure had consequences. I saw the
> results of a similar thing sitting at Alyth once.
> The M was missing everything below the deck; the
> SD had bent front handrails.
> Fred

hoggerdoug Wrote:
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> In this incident, the MLW's survived and returned
> to service after repairs. The SD40's involved were
> "retired" from the loco roster.
> Doug

From the picture it looks like the SD's both had bent frames.


> feclark Wrote:
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> > Neat series. The mismatch of frame heights on
> GM
> > vs. big MLW sure had consequences. I saw the
> > results of a similar thing sitting at Alyth
> once.
> > The M was missing everything below the deck;
> the
> > SD had bent front handrails.
> > Fred