NEGS main power sits at it's Concord home with a MRV ready to go south and be turned over to the GRS for it's journey beyond.
소속 및 차종 : New England Southern EMD GP39-2 NEGS 2370
촬영일자 및 장소 : February 24, 2006 Concord, New Hampshire, USA Concord yard
Ex UP GP39-2 is now the main power of local shortline New England Southern which gets it's work from Guilford. Seen here heading south in what's left of the yard to get it's train to head north.
소속 및 차종 : New England Southern EMD GP39-2 NEGS 2370
촬영일자 및 장소 : February 23, 2006 Manchester, New Hampshire, USA Manchester yard
On Wednesday, February 9, 2011, a southbound New England Southern light engine struck a patch of ice and toppled a full 130 degrees off the tracks and down an embankment. The accident happened in Concord, New Hampshire, just a few yards south of the truss bridge that carries the railroad across the Merrimack River. Engineer Peter Dearness, 71, who is also the railroad's owner and president, went to the hospital on a stretcher after rescue crews from the Concord Fire Department pulled him from the locomotive. He has since recovered. NEGS GP39-2 #2370 lost about 100 gallons of diesel fuel, triggering an environmental response. The conductor's side of the locomotive sustained moderate structural damage. The Federal Railroad Administration has named ice and snow buildup, much of it caused by illegal snowmobile activity along the right-of-way, as the preliminary cause of the derailment. Winter's Rigging, a derailment contractor from New York State, pulled the locomotive from the ditch and placed it back on the tracks shortly after noon on February 11th. Digital photo. Taken with the explicit permission of local law enforcement and first responders. More photos will soon follow.
소속 및 차종 : New England Southern EMD GP39-2 NEGS 2370
촬영일자 및 장소 : February 11, 2011 Concord, New Hampshire, USA Merrimack River Bridge
DITCHED, part 1: THE AFTERMATH. On Wednesday, February 9, 2011, a southbound New England Southern light engine struck a patch of ice and toppled a full 130 degrees off the tracks and down an embankment. The accident happened in Concord, New Hampshire, just a few yards south of the truss bridge that carries the railroad across the Merrimack River. Engineer Peter Dearness, 71, who is also the railroad's owner and president, went to the hospital on a stretcher after rescue crews from the Concord Fire Department pulled him from the locomotive. He has since recovered. NEGS GP39-2 #2370 lost about 100 gallons of diesel fuel, triggering an environmental response. The conductor's side of the locomotive sustained moderate structural damage. The Federal Railroad Administration has named ice and snow buildup, much of it caused by illegal snowmobile activity along the right-of-way, as the preliminary cause of the derailment. Winter's Rigging, a derailment contractor from New York State, pulled the locomotive from the ditch and placed it back on the tracks shortly after noon on February 11th. Digital photo. Taken with the explicit permission of local law enforcement and first responders. Click here to view my next photo of the cleanup.
소속 및 차종 : New England Southern EMD GP39-2 NEGS 2370
촬영일자 및 장소 : February 11, 2011 Concord, New Hampshire, USA Merrimack River Bridge
DITCHED, part 2: ATTACHING CABLES. On Wednesday, February 9, 2011, a southbound New England Southern light engine struck a patch of ice and toppled a full 130 degrees off the tracks and down an embankment. The FRA blamed illegal snowmobile activity as the cause of the ice pack. In this scene, crews from Winter's Rigging attach cables to the locomotive before dragging it from the ditch. They reminded me of emergency room doctors working feverishly to save a patient. I was surprised at just how fast these guys got that engine back on the track! Digital photo. Taken from a controlled scene with the explicit permission of local law enforcement and first responders. Click here to view my next photo of the cleanup.
소속 및 차종 : New England Southern EMD GP39-2 NEGS 2370
촬영일자 및 장소 : February 11, 2011 Concord, New Hampshire, USA Merrimack River Bridge
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"struck a patch of ice "
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