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Gary Everhart's Collection
 
1/27/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Norfolk Southern
Model:EMD GP38-2Built As:SOU 5072 (GP38-2)
Serial Number:72745-14Order No:72745
Frame Number:72745-14Built:8/1973
Notes:Ex-SOU, Sold to NRE 08/2016
Other locos with this serial:  NS 5072(GP38-2) HESR 2145(GP38-2)
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The returning hot metal bottle train
Title:  The returning hot metal bottle train
Description:  NS 5072 heads around the CSX curve at Dolton with its string of spacer and hot metal bottle cars on their way back to the ArcelorMittal steel mill in East Chicago, IN.
Photo Date:  12/28/2013  Upload Date: 12/18/2014 5:59:28 AM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  NS 5072(GP38-2)
Views:  96   Comments: 2
The returning hot metal bottle train
Title:  The returning hot metal bottle train
Description:  The bulbous bottle cars make them easy to spot in a line.
Photo Date:  12/28/2013  Upload Date: 12/18/2014 5:59:31 AM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  NS 5072(GP38-2)
Views:  153   Comments: 2
NS 5072
Title:  NS 5072
Description:  Never noticed the headlight holes below the number boards on the high nose of a Norfolk Southern GP38 before. Did they ever have headlights installed at that spot?
Photo Date:  12/28/2013  Upload Date: 12/18/2014 5:59:33 AM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  NS 5072(GP38-2)
Views:  120   Comments: 0
And the bottle train continues east . . .
Title:  And the bottle train continues east . . .
Description:  back to the ArcelorMittal steel plant in East Chicago, IN.
Photo Date:  12/28/2013  Upload Date: 12/18/2014 6:00:02 AM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  NS 5072(GP38-2)
Views:  201   Comments: 4
Westbound Hot Metal Bottle Car Train
Title:  Westbound Hot Metal Bottle Car Train
Description:  The distinctive shape of the hot metal bottle car train is apparent from a distance away on its morning run from the ArcelorMittal plant in East Chicago, IN (former Inland Steel) to the finishing plant in Riverdale, IL.
Photo Date:  3/26/2014  Upload Date: 10/23/2014 5:48:13 AM
Location:  Dolton Jct, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Transit,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NS 5072(GP38-2)
Views:  162   Comments: 4
Westbound Hot Metal Bottle Car Train
Title:  Westbound Hot Metal Bottle Car Train
Description:  Heading up the westbound hot metal bottle train is NS #5072 with its unique plaintive horn.
Photo Date:  3/26/2014  Upload Date: 10/23/2014 5:48:24 AM
Location:  Dolton Jct, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Transit,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NS 5072(GP38-2)
Views:  117   Comments: 1


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