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Train derailments carrying new cars typically is the same scenario. All the vehicles on the train get salvaged. Whether damaged or not:
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Another time the MoPac was involved, and something on the order of a dozen loads of new cars[automobiles], were involved. The clean-up crew pulled the autos out of the rail cars, and placed them in trenches along the ROW. Same as previously reported...Wind-rowed auto were crushed, and then covered with the soil from the digging of the trench.
In the case of the latter, MoPac had guards on the wreck scene till the cars were deemed no longer good for salvage. The story we were told by on-site officials was that the railroad's insurance carrier would rather write one check to cover the whole loss, rather than worrying about each auto individually. Also the car companies seem to feel that 'any salvage of a new car' presents a potential competitor for their 'new cars', not to mention they do not have to worry about the potential of product liabilities to worry about.'
https://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/p/268202/3039202.aspxSometimes the new vehicles in a transportation accident all get scrapped with no parts allowed to be sold, and sometimes there are parts that are allowed to be sold. We buy parts from the large salvage company, LKQ. In particular, over the years we have bought a good amount of new, take-off tires from LKQ from this situation. As well as engines and other items.
