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Wow, it’s unfortunate how avandals have damaged the unit. One question, whatishappening to all of MMa’s locomotives?
THe majority were auctioned off Jacob. The new owners of the line (The Central Maine & Quebec) also kept a couple units.
Exactly. CMQ kept most of the B23-7′s and that’s about it. Oddly enough though this unit is still in Farnham yard.
Unfortunate? Given what happened in Lac Megantic, I don’t see a problem with throwing a few stones at a railway that causes so much damage…
The feelings of the Quebec people certainly reflect in this photo, and I can’t blame them one bit.
I believe, yes what happened in Lac Megantic was an extremely unfortunate tragedy, but that doesn’t give the people of Quebec the right to damage the railway’s equipment. Yes, the railway should not have been operating trains with 1-man crews, and the engineer of the MMA “train of death” should have taken all necessary precautions when securing his train, but people should not have vandalized the equipment.
“An eye for an eye and leaves the whole world blind”, Gandhi.
A train sitting out here (or anywhere) for 11 months will inevitably get vandalized. Megantic has nothing to do with it in my opinion.
Right. Jacob, MMA had all rights to run with one man crews.. it wasn’t against the law. But it is now if handling dangerous cargo..
I think this photo is perfect, it reflects what MMA truly was at this point, broken, and hated.
Good riddance!
That I agree with, Steve.
That is a sad looking unit with those cracked windows.
Really, condoning vandalism against railway equipment? I doubt the equipment owner would share the same perspective. Under any circumstances, intentional damage to railway equipment is wrong….
Don’t get your knickers in a knot boys, you didn’t lose love ones in megantic and this photo explains it all…. vandalism included.
Host, I’m really perplexed as to why you think this locomotive was vandalized because of what happened at Megantic. I’m sure it was vandalized because it was an easy target, by youths who have no idea that this train belonged to the company responsible for the Megantic disaster.
Does it really matter? Honestly? Why would you kids care more about a rock thrown at a locomotive over 47 lives that died that fateful night?
Mma was a sick (and that’s sick as in “hospital” for you young lads) railroad and this photo captures the essence of it all.
Regardless of who, when or why the locomotive was damaged, see the big picture and put down the foamer thoughts for a minute.
Better yet I don’t see where anyone suggested they care MORE about rocks thrown at a train than the disaster? It was an accident, this was vandalism, two unfortunate things of different levels, neither of which are necessarily connected in any way…
Thats like saying Ford has a defective car model that kills a few people so someone decides to start throwing rocks at Ford cars, sure the deaths were tragic and avoidable, but that doesn’t mean you should ignore the person throwing rocks at peoples cars?
This whole conversation is ridiculous.
Yeah cracked windows, shame on the vandals. Good?
Hunter you are right – they are disconnected events, perhaps the association of the two are incorrect, but emotions will run high and everyone is entitled to their opinion, and not everyone will be in agreement. This debate has no end, but further opinions are more than welcome.