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VLI - GE BB36-7 # 8520 / ZBL - 05/08/2016

Photo of the locomotive was a Norfolk Southern

Locomotives adapted by EFVM from GE B36-7 , bought used in the United States of North American GE who was selling used machinery of Conrail after its privatization between Norfolk Southern and CSX . EFVM bought a lot of 44 machines used which was dispatched to the Brazil , arriving in 2003. The ship with 8/1 locomotives that reached shark was landed and conducted workshops in the same city where EFVM started a project together with several manufacturers national to adapt these machines to meter gauge , the weight per axle and the power limit that engines can produce this gauge.

Maneuvering at the station of Boa Vista Nova in Campinas / SP- Brazil.

Owner: Estrada de Ferro Vitoria-Minas

Model: Rebuilt GE BB36-7

Built As: NW 8520 (C36-7)

Serial Number: 43866

Order No: 1834NW

Frame Number: Built: 6/1982

Notes: Ex-NW 8520, EBBX 8520

Other locos with this serial: EFVM 8520(BB36-7) NS 8520(C36-7)

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Taken on August 5, 2016