Comments on: The first locomotive ever built at GMD in London, Ont in 1950 met an untimely death at the hands of a truck that did not stop at the Webber Rd crossing just outside of Welland back on a dark gloomy day in February 1980. I posted an image 6 1/2 years ago on this site; and imagine my surprise when I found a little yellow box in the basement last week that held 5 slides taken at that incident. Here is one of the better images, showing TH&B 71 in its death woes with the TH&B big hook which had arrived on the scene some hours previously. In all my years of railfanning this was probably the saddest sight I happened across. The truck driver was killed, the locomotive scrapped. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Fri, 15 May 2026 18:25:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Paul O'Shell http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=37511#comment-33099 Paul O'Shell Fri, 10 May 2019 14:32:56 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Death-of-71-edited.jpg#comment-33099 The wrecking crane is TH&B X-766 an Industrial Brownhoist 250 ton, serial number 12190, built in 1954. It later became CP 414651 and after that went to the Northern Plains Railroad in Fordville, ND. The wrecking crane is TH&B X-766 an Industrial Brownhoist 250 ton, serial number 12190, built in 1954. It later became CP 414651 and after that went to the Northern Plains Railroad in Fordville, ND.

]]> By: hoggerdoug http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=37511#comment-33098 hoggerdoug Fri, 10 May 2019 12:55:32 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Death-of-71-edited.jpg#comment-33098 Looks like the truck hit behind the loco cab, would have been a different outcome if the truck hit the cab area broadside. Looks like the truck hit behind the loco cab, would have been a different outcome if the truck hit the cab area broadside.

]]> By: awmooney http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=37511#comment-33096 awmooney Fri, 10 May 2019 11:41:49 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Death-of-71-edited.jpg#comment-33096 I just did some checking on the 'net and #71 was the leader......so it was miraculous escape for the crew !! I just did some checking on the ‘net and #71 was the leader……so it was miraculous escape for the crew !!

]]> By: awmooney http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=37511#comment-33095 awmooney Fri, 10 May 2019 11:33:45 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Death-of-71-edited.jpg#comment-33095 Someone with a good memory will chime in on this. I am thinking this was the second unit rather than the leader, and that the crew escaped okay. It has been a long time and I have forgotten the details. But I don't think the truck even slowed down. Someone with a good memory will chime in on this. I am thinking this was the second unit rather than the leader, and that the crew escaped okay. It has been a long time and I have forgotten the details. But I don’t think the truck even slowed down.

]]> By: hoggerdoug http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=37511#comment-33094 hoggerdoug Fri, 10 May 2019 10:45:22 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Death-of-71-edited.jpg#comment-33094 A miracle that anyone survived the crash and fire. Must have been quite a scramble to get out of the cab. A miracle that anyone survived the crash and fire. Must have been quite a scramble to get out of the cab.

]]> By: Snake2 http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=37511#comment-33090 Snake2 Thu, 09 May 2019 20:43:21 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Death-of-71-edited.jpg#comment-33090 You need to be more organized :) You need to be more organized :)

]]> By: awmooney http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=37511#comment-33089 awmooney Thu, 09 May 2019 15:50:58 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Death-of-71-edited.jpg#comment-33089 They did. They did.

]]> By: ngineered4u http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=37511#comment-33088 ngineered4u Thu, 09 May 2019 15:39:59 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Death-of-71-edited.jpg#comment-33088 The sad part of railroading. Hopefully the crew survived. The sad part of railroading. Hopefully the crew survived.

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