I found out today that the NCDOT’s Amtrak Engine 1792 made it back to Raleigh. It and the coaches involved in Thursday morning’s collision in Mebane were sitting back in the NCDOT yard this afternoon. Travis and I snapped photographs from outside of the yard gate.

From the reader-submitted photographs taken at the scene the damage looked worse than it did in person. We were seeing the right side of the power unit (the side that didn’t burn) but from what we saw it looked salvageable. It was sitting on its own trucks, so the frame may not have been bent after all – at least to the extent that I thought.
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