Conrail West Virginia Secondary Wreck Photos

          During August of '98, a Conrail unit-coal train hit an Anchor-Hocking glass truck south of New Lexington, Ohio.

All of these photos on this special page are owned and copyrighted by William Evans.

• Sets of "twisted" metal that used to be coal hoppers.

• Another coal hopper, except this one is near the "portas."

• Crews working to clean-up the mess. A hopper's truck (with one the axle left) rests near the overturned units (SD50 and C40-8W).

• Crews try to up-right SD50 no. 6817, which was the trailing unit.

• Crews now trying to upright badly beaten C40-8W no. xxxx.

• A different view of up-righting the C40-8W.

• Two clean-up crewman overlooking the damage down the track.

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