South Shore Freight new SD 38's in new colors.

It is an SD38-2 purchased from the Iowa Interstate RR. They have one more that will be numbered 805 with the same paint scheme. The GP38-2's will remain in the usual paint scheme. The former RR had a red nose and stripe so rather to spend $30K to repaint they just redid the stripe an nose.

I am surprised the unit does not have the "Harry Potter" warning symbol:  The bolt in the yellow triangle.  The unit will be working under powered wire!

I just saw 804 pulling a dozen or so cars along the north side of the toll road. Saw it a few times in the past week. I thought it was an IHB engine at first. It's kinda odd that they run the GPs in pairs and this one by itself (that I've seen)

I thought the GPs made for a pretty toylike train in that they wold have two or three engines pulling a train with maybe 20 cars over a lot of bridges and past a lot of station platforms. And that's to say nothing about the caternary and a lot of commuter trains.

J White

The original Iowa Interstate colors.  

j white posted:

I just saw 804 pulling a dozen or so cars along the north side of the toll road. Saw it a few times in the past week. I thought it was an IHB engine at first. It's kinda odd that they run the GPs in pairs and this one by itself (that I've seen)

 

I thought the GPs made for a pretty toylike train in that they wold have two or three engines pulling a train with maybe 20 cars over a lot of bridges and past a lot of station platforms. And that's to say nothing about the caternary and a lot of commuter trains.

 

J White

 

According to John Ochab, the GP38's were built for the long haul.  Very sturdy with a box frame that does not twist under torque.

I was guessing it was to put more drive wheels onto the rail than the need for the horsepower

MONON_JIM posted:

j white posted:

I thought the GPs made for a pretty toylike train in that they wold have two or three engines pulling a train with maybe 20 cars over a lot of bridges and past a lot of station platforms. And that's to say nothing about the caternary and a lot of commuter trains.

According to John Ochab, the GP38's were built for the long haul.  Very sturdy with a box frame that does not twist under torque.

I was guessing that they used the extra engines more to get more drive wheels on the rails than the need for the extra horsepower.

Anyone know if they run freight on the streets in Michigan City? I've seen some of their commuter cars on the street, but never a freight train.

J White

j white posted:

I was guessing it was to put more drive wheels onto the rail than the need for the horsepower

MONON_JIM posted:

j white posted:

I thought the GPs made for a pretty toylike train in that they wold have two or three engines pulling a train with maybe 20 cars over a lot of bridges and past a lot of station platforms. And that's to say nothing about the caternary and a lot of commuter trains.

According to John Ochab, the GP38's were built for the long haul.  Very sturdy with a box frame that does not twist under torque.

I was guessing that they used the extra engines more to get more drive wheels on the rails than the need for the extra horsepower.

 

Anyone know if they run freight on the streets in Michigan City? I've seen some of their commuter cars on the street, but never a freight train.

 

J White

 

Still run some freight down 11th Street.

Morning of July 19, 2016 at the east end of Burnham Yards.  About 200 yards west of the Indiana/Illinois state line.  John in Lansing, ILL

Thanks for posting..i enjoyed the paint progress and locomotive history detective work.

Thats nice color on those engines at least not ugly ole red LOL