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Gary Everhart's Collection
 
3/19/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Norfolk Southern
Model:EMD GP38-2Built As:SOU 5152 (GP38-2)
Serial Number:73677-14Order No:73677
Frame Number:73677-14Built:10/1974
Notes:Ex-SOU, Sold to IBCX 08/2017
Other locos with this serial:  NS 5152(GP38-2) SOU 5152(GP38-2) IBCX 5152(GP38-2)
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Hot Metal Bottle Train in Transit
Title:  Hot Metal Bottle Train in Transit
Description:  Headed up by one of the GP38-2 units on hand, this regularly scheduled hot metal bottle train ambles slowly from the ArcelorMital plant in East Chicago, IN, to the finishing plant in Riverdale, IL, via mostly IHB trackage. The cars' rotund shape makes it an easy one to spot coming down the track.
Photo Date:  10/22/2014  Upload Date: 10/15/2016 5:24:39 AM
Location:  East Chicago, IN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Transit,Action
Locomotives:  NS 5152(GP38-2)
Views:  3742   Comments: 9
NS 5152
Title:  NS 5152
Description:  Power for the four car hot metal bottle train and the gondola spacers used to spread the weight out when crossing bridges.
Photo Date:  10/22/2014  Upload Date: 10/15/2016 5:24:43 AM
Location:  East Chicago, IN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Transit,Action
Locomotives:  NS 5152(GP38-2)
Views:  301   Comments: 0
NS 5152
Title:  NS 5152
Description:  Barely moving more than 10-15 mph usually, this GP38-2 moves the 4 loaded hot metal bottle cars and the gondola spacers between the two ArcelorMital plants in Indiana and Illinois, a distance of approxmately 14 miles away. This is one of the last locations where hot metal bottle cars (or torpedo cars to some) are found traveling outside the steel plants.
Photo Date:  10/22/2014  Upload Date: 10/15/2016 5:24:46 AM
Location:  East Chicago, IN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Transit,Action
Locomotives:  NS 5152(GP38-2)
Views:  306   Comments: 2


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