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Owner: Incoal Company
Type: Other/Not Listed
AAR Class: LS: A car of special construction having two separable interlocking units which form a car body. Units may be separated and load interposed between and locked in place to form a complete transportation unit.
AAR Type: L090
Detail Info:   Special Type Cars, Cubic Capacity: N/A, Inside Length: N/A
Plate:   C
User Notes:   Treadwell 10-axle "torpedo" hot bottle; Ld Lmt 520,000
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INLX 143
Title:  INLX 143
Description:  This empty hot metal bottle car slowly passes the Indiana Harbor Belt Calumet Tower on its way home, the former Inland Steel plant, now one of the ArcelorMittal sites.
Photo Date:  3/2/2008  Upload Date: 12/13/2011 10:42:07 PM
Location:  East Chicago, IN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  285   Comments: 0
INLX 143
Title:  INLX 143
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/27/2010  Upload Date: 4/27/2011 6:37:00 AM
Location:  East Chicago, IN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  RollingStock
Locomotives: 
Views:  281   Comments: 0
INLX 143
Title:  INLX 143
Description:  Hot metal bottle car from ArcelorMittal steel plant
Photo Date:  8/11/2011  Upload Date: 8/15/2011 9:23:25 PM
Location:  East Chicago, IN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Track,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  411   Comments: 3
Hot Metal Train
Title:  Hot Metal Train
Description:  Part of the ArcelorMittal steel plant can be seen in the background
Photo Date:  8/11/2011  Upload Date: 8/15/2011 9:34:04 PM
Location:  East Chicago, IN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NS 5112(GP38-2)
Views:  588   Comments: 1
Hot Metal Train
Title:  Hot Metal Train
Description:  NS 5119 hot metal train on the IHB Kankakee Line (old Egyptian Line) is starting to cross the NS mainlines. ArcelorMittal steel plant is in the background.
Photo Date:  8/11/2011  Upload Date: 8/15/2011 9:44:23 PM
Location:  East Chicago, IN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NS 5112(GP38-2)
Views:  665   Comments: 0
Hot Metal Train
Title:  Hot Metal Train
Description:  Signals on the NS mainline all show red protecting the crossing by the hot metal train.
Photo Date:  8/11/2011  Upload Date: 8/15/2011 9:47:31 PM
Location:  East Chicago, IN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Track,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  500   Comments: 0
Hot Metal Train
Title:  Hot Metal Train
Description:  Almost completed crossing the NS mainline and heading south, presumably to the ArcelorMittal finishing plant in Riverdale, IL
Photo Date:  8/11/2011  Upload Date: 8/15/2011 9:47:36 PM
Location:  East Chicago, IN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Track,Action
Locomotives:  NS 5112(GP38-2)
Views:  640   Comments: 0
INLX 143
Title:  INLX 143
Description:  A rare sight except in East Chicago, IN is this bottle car from ArcelorMittal plant in East Chicago and heading to Riverdale, IL..
Photo Date:  10/22/2011  Upload Date: 10/22/2011 7:15:09 PM
Location:  East Chicago, IN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  285   Comments: 0
INLX 143
Title:  INLX 143
Description:  The fourth of 7 hot metal bottle cars head south on khe IHB mainline in its trip to the finishing plant in Riverdale, IL.
Photo Date:  11/5/2011  Upload Date: 12/8/2011 7:34:15 AM
Location:  East Chicago, IN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  290   Comments: 0
INLX 143
Title:  INLX 143
Description:  The 3rd hot metal bottle car in the train was INLX 143.
Photo Date:  11/11/2011  Upload Date: 12/18/2011 4:44:33 AM
Location:  East Chicago, IN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Track,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  290   Comments: 0
INLX 143
Title:  INLX 143
Description:  Empty hot metal car INLX 143 rolls north on the IHB mainline as it heads back to the ArcelorMittal plant.
Photo Date:  12/12/2011  Upload Date: 1/17/2012 6:00:41 AM
Location:  Hessville, IN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  299   Comments: 0
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:  4448   Comments: 9
INLX 143
Title:  INLX 143
Description:  The first hot metal bottle car (or torpedo car to some) is former Inland Steel #143, now an ArcelorMitall car. Note the five axle trucks on each end.
Photo Date:  10/22/2014  Upload Date: 10/15/2016 5:24:50 AM
Location:  East Chicago, IN
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Transit,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  323   Comments: 0

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