Abandoned to the own luck in distant Batista Frazão yard, in Iraí de Minas MG, DDM45 4292, former EFVM 802, is being destroyed without FCA and Vale take the initiative of moving it to a safety place. It was leaned at that yard after it suffered a fire in the prime mover compartment. The reason is not known that did the company to decide for the removal of the engine in that distant place and to leave the locomotive abandoned there. After FCA closed Batista Frazão station, the locomotive became objective of vandals and other people looking for scrap metal. Informations collected in that area attest that parts of it were found with scrap dealers in the distant city of Araguari MG and that they would have been sold by employees of own FCA.
If the situation of that locomotive is a sadness for us, for FCA and Vale can be understanded as a disregard to their own history, since DDM45 symbolized the entrance of EFVM in the modernity of the traction diesel of great capacity.
Locomotive 4292 should be taken to the workshops of the Vale at Tubarão in Vitoria ES to be reformed and painted in the original colors of EFVM. Soon afterwards, it should be sent to Pedro Nolasco's rail museum, where it would have an end worthy of the warrior that was for all those years, helping Vale to arrive where it arrived today, the second biggest mining company in the world.
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