Center cab crushed in highway accident? Museum bound?

robertjohndavis · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:10 am **Posts:** 2499

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH4HMeoBAQ0

Looks like a highway accident caused the end of a center cab locomotive being trucked. Was this a museum piece?

Rob

scottychaos · **Posted:** Wed May 21, 2008 10:19 am

Accident happened last night. (Tuesday evening, May 20)
Its near Cincinnati, Ohio.
(couldnt tell that from the video..)

another news story says its a 80-ton loco.

thats all the info that can be found from news reports so far..

Scot

scottychaos · **Posted:** Wed May 21, 2008 10:59 am

Has number 7948 on the cab..
appears (by me) to be a GE centercab..

google is bringing up nothing with that number..

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080521/NEWS01/805210387

Scot

Randy Hees · **Posted:** Wed May 21, 2008 11:39 am

According to the Critter list (on Yahoo) it is (was?) an 80 ton GE from Timkin, being moved from Ohio to Alabama...

David H. Hamley · **Joined:** Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:07 pm **Posts:** 705

The loco was indeed ex-Timken 80 ton GE 7948. It was apparently en route to a new commercial owner, not a museum.

Cause appears to have been a failure of the trailer gooseneck to deck attachment.

Delivery may be "somewhat delayed."

(We at Pennsylvania Trolley Museum feel relief because we just took delivery of a 25 ton GE by truck on Saturday 5/17. By comparison, our loco move, from Carlisle, PA, went beautifully. It's at the museum in one piece, and that's what counts. For the record, ours is GE 31789 5/53, originally Landis Tool Co. n#, Waynesboro, PA. Anyone out there got a photo of it at Landis? Or at Isaacs Bros. Scrap at Defiance, OH? Or at Agway at Pier 122 in Philly?)

Dave

robertmacdowell · **Posted:** Wed May 21, 2008 4:07 pm

Wow! That's a story you don't hear every day.

At this point it appears the locomotive is carrying the weight of the freeway. Glad GE builds them well. So what happens to a bridge like that if you kick out a set of support beams?

The hauler is in for some expense fixing the bridge. We recently had a truck take out a crucial bit of freeway in the Bay Area. That was let out for bid quickly, with a $5 million bonus for quick completion. The high bidder bid about $900,000, and completed it 29 days early. Since the bonus was $200,000 per day, he didn't even get paid for four of those days.

Brian Norden · **Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 1:35 am

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We recently had a truck take out a crucial bit of freeway in the Bay Area. That was let out for bid quickly, with a $5 million bonus for quick completion. The high bidder bid about $900,000, and completed it 29 days early. Since the bonus was $200,000 per day, he didn't even get paid for four of those days.

I recently saw on our local PBS station KCET a 1/2 hour program about that rebuild. The program was put together by the professional engineers organization that represents engineers at CalTrans. The film has its own website: Amazing: The Rebuilding of the MacArthur Maze and a DVD is available for $14.99.

The contractor is one that also handled rebuilds after several of the earthquakes. He figures out how to get a job done quick and get the early completion bonus. And otherwise seems to think "outside the box." C.C. Myers, Inc

rbarcus · **Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 7:27 am

Seems to me that their $50 million estimate for repairs is kind of high.

JimBoylan · **Posted:** Thu May 22, 2008 9:16 am

The TV show on the YouTube link seem to show the wrong interchange on their map. If you want to go in person, the real location is is about 3 interchanges West.