EMD GP38-2 Locomotives
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As it arrived, covered in dust and bent horns (since fixed & it's a good runner).
Did Australian National actually have any of these in real life?
EN: Between Trinidad and Quincy the Quincy Local ascends from Columbia River.
DE: Zwischen Trinidad und Quincy erklimmt der Quincy Local von Wenatchee aus dem Columbia Valley heraus die Hochfläche.
A quartet of EMD GP varients accelerate train WAJO out of Warren, PA as they pass through the truss bridge over the Allegheny River.
Shortly after sunset Buffalo & Pittsburgh train WAJO crosses over Fraley Street in Kane, PA with the town of Kane and its restored Pennsylvania Railroad depot as a backdrop.
I just started rescanning some older Illinois Central stuff and chose this one to post first. We're at Homewood, IL and lucky enough to catch a southbound leaving the yard. Three orange and cream four axle EMDs are cranking it up as they pass me. Up front is a GP38-2, the 9631. He's got a GP40, the 3048, and what I think might be an ex GM&O GP35 third out. It looks like it has Alco trucks underneath it. Anyway, a solid set of any color on the IC was kind of neat. Of course, this wasn't yesterday. It was May 20, 1975.
A pair of Operation Lifesaver painted GP38-2's cross over the Ohio River as they lead Norfolk Southern local C17 into Steubenville, Ohio. The train is heading back towards the yard at Mingo Junction, Ohio after working industries along the Wells Industrial Track on the West Virginia side of the river.
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NS Weirton Secondary
Steubenville, OH
NS C17 (Local; Mingo Junction, OH to Wellsburg, WV Turn)
NS 5342 GP38-2 Ex. CR 8181 Blt. 1978
NS 5358 GP38-2 Ex. CR 8212 Blt. 1978
After working industries on the east side of the Ohio River in West Virginia, Norfolk Southern local C17 with a pair of OLS GP38s crosses back into Ohio as it passes through the massive truss bridge in Steubenville.
Buffalo and Pittsburgh train WAJO notches its quartet of GPs up as it leaves the town of Warren, PA with a train of tank cars in tow.
Four Conrail four-axle EMD’s lead westbound empty hoppers past the steel mill in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Lehigh Valley’s four GP38AC’s became the only examples of that model on Conrail’s roster. Although I never saw one leading a train after the Conrail takeover, they did show up from time to time in trailing positions, as seen here.
With it's Leslie RS3L blaring, FTVM 9420 and sister 9424 are causing even more chaos through the morning rush at the corner of Avenida 602 and Vìa Tapo in Mexico City.
A southbound Delaware & Hudson GP38-2 manifest rolls into Nineveh Junction, New York. Just ahead is the point where the main once split between the Penn Division to Wilkes-Barre and the Belden Hill line to Binghamton.
On lease to Burlington Northern, Oakway/Electro-Motive SD60s 9042 & 9064, with LMX B39-8E-8576, are leading BN GP38-2-2152 & SD40-2-7186 on a N/B manifest freight on the Joint Line.
Four Southern GP38-2’s wheel a northbound freight past the James H Quillen Veterans Affairs Medical Center complex in Johnson City, Tennessee.
CP JH15 pulls out of Humboldt and across I-94 behind an ex-SOO GP38-2 and a BNSF grain train that will be taken down towards Shoreham.
A Southern GP38-2 brings three cars south on the main line just north of the passenger station in Charlottesville, Virginia. Today, the tracks to the right of the passenger platform are gone, and the main line is lined with trees on both sides.
The BNSF Transfer passes through 2nd Avenue in Birmingham, AL. on their way to interchange with NS at 32nd Street North Yard in Birmingham, AL. with GP38-2’s 2048 & 2046 in charge. For a while BNSF had these lettered for BNSF still in their blue & white EMD lease paint scheme. The trailing GP38-2 2046 is still in it’s Conrail blue paint scheme at that time. Both of these have since been repainted into BNSF orange. The lead GP38-2 2048 is a former MKT/EMD GP40 that was rebuilt into GP38-2 specifications.
A quartet of Kansas City Southern GP's are on the point of CPKC LWY101, making a special move of M1 Abrams tanks from Alliance to Wylie after picking them up from BNSF. Running east through Garland, Texas over the CPKC Dallas Subdivision, the train pounds across the DGNO diamond and passes the searchlight signals at Garland Junction.
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CPKC Dallas Subdivision
Zacha Junction, TX
CPKC LWY101 (Military Loads; Alliance, TX to Wylie, TX)
KCS 2014 GP38-2 Ex. KCS 4016, BM 205 Blt. 1973
KCS 2820 GP22ECO Ex. KCS 2820 GP40-3, KCS 4775, UP 661 GP40, WP 3512 Blt. 1967
KCS 1906 GP38-2 Ex. KCS 4015, BM 204 Blt. 1973
KCS 2800 GP22ECO Ex. KCS 4755 GP40-3, UP 882 GP40, CNW 5519, NYC 3030 Blt. 1965
The last day of Conrail’s second year finds an interesting lashup waiting to tackle the grade to Horseshoe Curve and beyond. A GP38-2 and two GP38’s are joined by two C424’s and a U23B on a westbound manifest passing the Amshak station that served Altoona at the time.
The CSX Erie to Dunkirk local C745 cruises west through Harborcreek, Pennsylvania as it makes its return trip to the Erie Yard behind a pair a GP's. The lead unit features the yellow stenciled plow, denoting notches for third rail clearance.
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CSX Erie West Sub
Harborcreek, PA
CSX C745 (Erie, PA to Dunkirk, NY Turn)
CSX 2804 GP38-2 Ex. CR 8620 Blt. 1979
CSX 6391 GP40-2 Ex. SBD 6645, AWP 733 Blt. 1974
An Indiana Railroad GP38-2 leads two SD90MAC's as SAHW cruises through Bargersville, Indiana at a brisk pace, passing along the grain elevators that tower above the flat landscape south of Indianapolis. A long train is in tow on this Sunday afternoon, with a block of intermodal on the head end and manifest freight behind it.
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INRD Indianapolis Sub
Bargersville, IN
INRD SAHW (Senate Avenue - Indianapolis, IN to Hiawatha Yard - Jasonville, IN)
INRD 3803 GP38-2 Ex. HLCX 3830, CR 8255 Blt. 1978
INRD 9001 SD9043MAC Ex. CEFX 123 Blt 1999
INRD 9007 SD9043MAC Ex. CEFX 9007 Blt. 2000
After returning from working customers on the Lexington Branch, an RJ Corman Kentucky Lines local is sorting out its train into the yard on the west side of downtown Lexington. A former NS admiral cab GP38-2 leads a GMTX lease GP38-2 as the train pulls under the NS's CNO&TP First District mainline.
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RJCC Old Road Sub
Lexington, KY
Unknown Symbol (Local; Lexington, KY)
RJCC 5131 GP38-2 Ex. NS 5131, SOU 5131 Blt. 1974
GMTX 2638 GP38-2 Ex. CSX 2011 GP38, BO 3811 Blt. 1967
Conrail had a daily run-through manifest between Enola, Pennsylvania and Hagerstown, Maryland with the Chessie System, and later CSX. Here the westbound train has just departed Enola, crossing the Rockville bridge.
And the score is EMD 4, GE 3. Two S/B trains are switching in South Collier Yard. L: Family Lines GP38-2-6061 & Seaboard Coast Line GP40s-1528, 1586, 1635. R: Chessie System U30B-8228 & B30-7s-8290, 8266.
A trio of New Hampshire Northcoast GP's are on the point of train D8 as it the train is loaded with sand at Ossipee Aggregates in Ossipee, New Hampshire. Once loaded, the crew will pull these cars down to the small yard near the engine house to assemble their train with the first cut of cars they pulled earlier.
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NHN Conway Branch
Ossipee, NH
NHN D8 (Sand Loads; Ossipee, NH to Dover, NH)
NHN 3825 GP38-2 Ex. HLCX 3825, GATX 3825, CR 8244 Blt. 1978
NHN 1801 GP18 Ex. NHN 503, NEGS 503, CRIP 1341 Blt. 1960
NHN 3823 GP38-2 Ex. HLCX 3823, GATX 3823, CR 8242 Blt. 1978
With a loaded sand train in tow from Ossipee Aggregates, a trio of New Hampshire Northcoast GP's lead D8 south as it crosses over the Union Meadows Pond causeway approaching the town of Union, New Hampshire. On the head end is a block of company hoppers bound for the Tri City aggregates terminal.
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NHN Conway Branch
Union, NH
NHN D8 (Sand Loads; Ossipee, NH to Dover, NH)
NHN 3825 GP38-2 Ex. HLCX 3825, GATX 3825, CR 8244 Blt. 1978
NHN 1801 GP18 Ex. NHN 503, NEGS 503, CRIP 1341 Blt. 1960
NHN 3823 GP38-2 Ex. HLCX 3823, GATX 3823, CR 8242 Blt. 1978
Norfolk Southern local C54 (Mingo Jct, OH - Conway, PA) is at the end of its run as it pulls its train south past the yard before shoving in.
Providence and Worcester GP38-2 2007 (built new for the then only 7 yr newly independent road by EMD in Nov. 1980) brings up the rear of local frieght PR3 getting on the move out of the weedy remains of old New Haven Yard 17. They are dropping through ATWELLS interlocking at about MP 184 of Amtrak's New Haven Line (the northeast corridor) as they enter Main 3 for the short run down to CRANSTON interlocking where they'll cross over to the other side to access the yard and the Harbor Junction Running Track to the Port of Providence.
They had cleared up in here so they could pull and spot the Providence Journal which is accessed via a rickety sprur behind me that reaches across Harris Avenue. This customer is the last old school industry near the downtown core and a legacy of railroading from another era long past.
Providence, Rhode Island
Wednesday January 25, 2023
Eight years after the creation of Conrail, black patched ex-Penn Central units still roamed the system, such as this GP38-2 at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. There was nothing more disappointing than waiting for a train and finding out that one of them was leading when the train came into view.
CP T07 strolling west with a nice change of face on the point from the typical Eco's that dominate the Havelock Sub.
Helpers push Conrail train UPS, laden with coal for the Portland Generating Station, through Bangor, Pennsylvania. The view is from the West Messinger Street bridge, known locally as “the viaduct”.
NS GP38-2 5230 shows it's ancestry beneath the NS paint as it works a local job at Hapeville, Georgia. January 2023
Buffalo and Pittsburgh train WAJO notches up as it pulls a long train of asphalt and oil tank cars past the brick depot in Sheffield, PA with a quartet of GP's. Normally entirely nocturnal during the winter months, the early call time of 1500 allowed most of the eastbound run to Johnsonburg to be in light. A recent snowfall in the area contrasted with the orange locomotives running through the landscape.
CSXT 2727 leads Y133 past the old Buffalo Central Terminal enroute to Ohio Street Yard to work industries in the port.
The Great Lakes Central's OSTN arrives in Howell, Michigan on a rainy October evening, pounding the diamond with CSX's Plymouth Sub and rolling past a set of searchlight signals after dropping the conductor off. The crew will work the interchange with CSX here before continuing south towards Ann Arbor.
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GLC Ann Arbor District
Howell, MI
GLC OSTN (Local; Owosso, MI to Ann Arbor, MI Turn)
GLC 399 GP38-2 Ex. LLPX 2336, UP 1963, CR 8031, PC 8031 Blt. 1972
GLC 398 GP38-2 Ex. LLPX 2331, EMDX 821, CR 8021, PC 8021 Blt. 1972
GLC 386 SD35 Ex. MRL 705, IMRL 705, MRL 1553, NW 1553 Blt. 1965