I just got home from Concord NH when I found out that New England Southern's GP39-2 derailed in Concord NH. http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/239379/locomotive-rolls-over Snowmobiles are to blame and since that activity is big in NH, the flame wars have started. NEGS runs on former B&M track from Nashua to Lincoln NH. They have had a lot of bad luck. Pan Am (GTI) did not renew their trackage rights from Nashua to Concord recently and now this. The former UP Geep was clearing snow and was going to be sold so NEGS could purchase a smaller engine. They were looking at a MP15. I've met the owner, Peter is a nice guy and always let me walk around the remains of Concord yard as long as my scanner was on and turned up. I hope this is not the end of this short line.
It's sickening to read the references to the RR people as clowns. And how they were using the engine to plow snow? What? Amazing just how stupid the general public is. How do they think railroads plow their tracks? It's almost as ignorant as thinking using a plow truck to clear roads is odd! No wonder this country is falling apart, with morons like that having access to keyboards. :thumbs_down: Boxcab E50
Yup, pretty amazing, yet I'm sure if one of those snowmobilers got hurt while tresspassing on RR property, he would not only get sympathy from the general public but probably a settlement as well.
A couple of graffiti "artists" (I still call 'em vandals - I'm old-school) got killed a couple of months ago when they were defacing a wall beside the Via Rail line here in Montreal. They were instantly proclaimed as martyrs. One survivor said they never heard the train coming - yeah, at 3 a.m... The moral is if you're bigger, it's always your fault, no matter how stupid the other party is.
So true. Here in East Central Illinois, a local man left a bar early in the morning, drunk, and staggered home by route of the NS tracks behind the bar. He was struck and killed. One young woman was quoted as saying "why did this have to happen? He was a good man, the train didn't even stop! He is a true hero!" Hero? Seriously? The only thing I gathered from the incident is that Darwin was wrong.
Thanks. Nice picture and decent article. I noted in the next-to-last paragraph the writer got the father/son names mixed up. Unless it was Grandpa as conductor. That was something I picked up on in the original article... they led off saying a passenger was injured. It was my impression that Dearness was the Conductor, which would make him crew, not a passenger. Maybe a nitpick, but something the writer should have gotten right.
Not a nitpick, the Concord Monitor has always had a hard time with correct terms in dealing with transportation, whether rail, road or air. Peter is the owner and was operating the locomotive when the incident took place, his son was also with him and was the conductor. I think WMUR called the Peter the engineer the "driver". My dad who worked for the FAA was always upset when the local media could not use the correct nomenclature when talking about an aircraft incident.
Nice picture- last week, this coulda passed for the MKT yard down here in Muskogee, OK. BTW, unless I'm mistaken, that's a former Katy unit. As for the young lady's alcohol-fueled babble about being heroic when being turned into hamburger by a train (as mentioned in another post), I can only shake my head. Yet another reason I never tried to meet women in bars.....
Probably is since the talk of repainting it in green came up a few years ago in a New England RR discussion board. Peter decided he liked the armour yellow and gray better so went with that, especially since most New England shortlines are some shade of green.
The truly scary part is just how many idiots like this walk amongst us. And they vote, etc, etc....:tb-wacky: Boxcab E50
You may be correct, Ryan. The problem, though, is how many fools follow along. A friend who has family just down valley from you, was telling me only yesterday some of the idioctic regulations the State of Taxington has recently enacted. They're strangling the entire place to death. No wonder Olympiagrad is broke. Oh well, back on topic. Boxcab E50
Well, it IS his railroad, and paint don't pull tonnage. But, imagine a John Deere-green with yellow-striped MKT diesel roaming the New England hinterlands...........I know a few folks around these parts who would be flocking up to that part of the country in droves.
I was up in NH again this weekend to see family for Easter and I also got a chance to revive an old tradition I haven't done in a few years, Good Friday Railfanning. My Dad had found # 2370 in Concord under the 393 overpass and took me there. As you can see, NEGS has been working on her a little. I did not get too close as Concord PD don't care if your a railfan or not. She is sitting on the old Northern Line of the B&M. Just up the line I found some more cool artifacts but that will be the subject of another thread. Peter had someone in line to buy the unit, not sure if that will still go through once she is repaired or not. Most of the damage is on the side and cab.
Yeah, thanks for the update! Do they have other engines? Did they buy or lease something to replace this one? How's the business doing?
