the Company i work for does the cleanup for the rail company
here are photos i took yesterday at the derailment.
We did an average cost of $50000 per vehicle times 212= $10,600,000
First pic is a jag worth $150000
Full of bimmers and dodges
Also a pic of a $90000 F350 king ranch

 

They have been told to cut up every car including the rims. nothing can be sold or reused. i wanted to take a nav out of the king ranch but was told that if i removed one bolt that the company i work for would be kicked off site and charges laid by the police. they have full time security around the vehicles at all times.

 

Wow, thanks for the pictures. I'm glad they will destroy the cars. Here's a you tube video of a car shredder,

 

Absolutely ridiculous in this age of recycle,re-use they can't part these vehicles out.....as a nine beauracratic BS

 

It's kind of sad to think all those vehicles will be destroyed. I think in 2008 Mazda shredded 4,700 vehicles due to the Cougar Ace debacle and 90% of those cars were in perfect condition. The salvage value must be really high in cases like this but than again the liability is also probably high.

 

Would you truly trust something that has been involved in the forces of a train wreck? Thats probably why the shred order came in. All shredded material will likely be recycled back in to something else.

 

I forgot to mention that most of the damage is from extracting them out of the rail car with a grapple on a Excavator

 

Ouch! thats some expensive derailment! That doesnt even cover the actual derail or the train cars or cleanup!!


lol ironic my name is Dean to lol

 

WOW!
Pretty expensive wreck .

Hopefully they were dealer stock vehicles and not customer ordered cars, even with a high priority number on the new build it's going to be bit of a wait