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Eastern Railroad Discussion > Electro Motive Export Locomotives from "The Perch"Date: 05/03/15 07:55 Electro Motive Export Locomotives from "The Perch" Author: wheel_slip Norfolk Southern ran a special train of export locomotives from Electro Motive through Columbus, Ohio this morning. As captured from the place I call "The Perch", the special train is about to duck under Interstate 70 on the eastside of town.
I can tell these things were built by ElectroMotive, but I don't know what they are ot where they are headed. Does anybody have any info about these export locomotives? Andy *Apparently these are "EMD GT46c model export units bound for Africa." Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/03/15 08:17 by wheel_slip.   Date: 05/03/15 08:56 Re: Electro Motive Export Locomotives from "The Perch" Author: CNW534 Found them.
 Date: 05/03/15 09:52 Re: Electro Motive Export Locomotives from "The Perch" Author: Realist Front window looks like a U25B or U25C.
Date: 05/03/15 10:38 Re: Electro Motive Export Locomotives from "The Perch" Author: MitchGDRMCo GT46ACe (not a GT46C or GT46C-ACe, those are Australian domestic builds) heading to Comilog in Africa (?). Not entirely sure on where Comilog runs these.....
Date: 05/03/15 11:19 Re: Electro Motive Export Locomotives from "The Perch" Author: Ray_Murphy MitchGDRMCo Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > GT46ACe (not a GT46C or GT46C-ACe, those are > Australian domestic builds) heading to Comilog in > Africa (?). Not entirely sure on where Comilog > runs these..... Gabon. Remember this? http://www.cargolaw.com/2012nightmare_emd-loco.html Date: 05/03/15 11:33 Re: Electro Motive Export Locomotives from "The Perch" Author: MitchGDRMCo Well they like every other news source is calling them GT46C-ACes and listing them as built in Australia! But yes, Gabon it is, thank you for the refresher!
Date: 05/03/15 12:35 Re: Electro Motive Export Locomotives from "The Perch" Author: ns1000 NIIIIIIICE....!!
Date: 05/03/15 13:21 Re: Electro Motive Export Locomotives from "The Perch" Author: easternrailvideos Anyone know what train symbol they were using for this train? and any location updates
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/03/15 13:26 by easternrailvideos. Date: 05/03/15 15:24 Re: Electro Motive Export Locomotives from "The Perch" Author: Appalachianrails easternrailvideos Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Anyone know what train symbol they were using for > this train? and any location updates > NS 098 By Kenova, WV at 5:05 pm. Date: 05/03/15 17:13 Re: Electro Motive Export Locomotives from "The Perch" Author: kpcmcpkva OK, I am confused, are the units being pulled by NS built in US or Austrailia??
Date: 05/03/15 17:22 Re: Electro Motive Export Locomotives from "The Perch" Author: Ray_Murphy kpcmcpkva Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > OK, I am confused, are the units being pulled by > NS built in US or Austrailia?? I'm guessing that the c2012 order was built from EMD kits in Australia, but the current order is built directly by EMD in the US. Ray Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/03/15 17:25 by Ray_Murphy. Date: 05/03/15 17:55 Re: Electro Motive Export Locomotives from "The Perch" Author: MitchGDRMCo They're all built in the US, model GT46ACe......
Date: 05/03/15 20:32 Re: Electro Motive Export Locomotives from "The Perch" Author: trainman630 Is that a special idler?
Date: 05/03/15 22:57 Re: Electro Motive Export Locomotives from "The Perch" Author: Appalachianrails trainman630 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Is that a special idler? I'm no expert on this but here's a picture I took of the car between the NS engine and the exports. Does this help with answering your question?  Date: 05/04/15 03:09 Re: Electro Motive Export Locomotives from "The Perch" Author: UPDetector Now hopefully the support bands on the cargo ship doesn't give way like it did for one of these units when it came to delivey for Australia LOL
Date: 05/04/15 04:01 Re: Electro Motive Export Locomotives from "The Perch" Author: MitchGDRMCo Can you elaborate on that please? Only time I remember locos coming here and being damaged before being pulled of the ship were the ex Germany MZ class...
Date: 05/04/15 05:08 Re: Electro Motive Export Locomotives from "The Perch" Author: MitchGDRMCo They never came here nor were built here. Biggest problem with the internet is the ease with which misinformation spreads.
Date: 05/06/15 03:39 Re: Electro Motive Export Locomotives from "The Perch" Author: jmt Not Australia
Comilog operates in Gabon, which is in West Africa http://www.eramet-comilog.com/ A long history of sourcing US built locos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eramet Comilog operates the Trans-Gabon Railway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Gabon_Railway Date: 05/08/15 16:51 Re: Electro Motive Export Locomotives from "The Perch" Author: alamode Ray_Murphy Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > kpcmcpkva Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > OK, I am confused, are the units being pulled > by > > NS built in US or Austrailia?? > > I'm guessing that the c2012 order was built from > EMD kits in Australia, but the current order is > built directly by EMD in the US. No - both orders (2012, 2015) were built at Muncie in the US. There were no kits from Australia. |