"Total" only in the sense of "totally minor damage". The ends of these cars are essentially a break-away design, so it looks a lot worse than really it is, particularly when the newsies take the most hair raising pix they can -- after all that's how the news media stays in business. Elkton would fix this in about two weeks, , , but those shopmen are long gone. Today with all the bidding, cost estimate stuff required, and legions of consultants, who knows.