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Viewing Album:  Another Hot Metal Bottle Train at Dolton
 
By:Gary Everhart
Dates:12/28/2013 - 12/28/2013
Album Info:Can't pass up an opportunity to photograph this unusual train - a hot metal bottle train that runs between the ArcelorMittal East Chicago, IN, steel plant and the finishing plant in Riverdale, IL. This time it had a small mystery in its running order.
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The returning hot metal bottle train
Title:  The returning hot metal bottle train
Description:  NS 5072 heads around the CSX curve at Dolton with its string of spacer and hot metal bottle cars on their way back to the ArcelorMittal steel mill in East Chicago, IN.
Photo Date:  12/28/2013  Upload Date: 12/18/2014 5:59:28 AM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  NS 5072(GP38-2)
Views:  88   Comments: 2
The returning hot metal bottle train
Title:  The returning hot metal bottle train
Description:  The bulbous bottle cars make them easy to spot in a line.
Photo Date:  12/28/2013  Upload Date: 12/18/2014 5:59:31 AM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  NS 5072(GP38-2)
Views:  142   Comments: 2
NS 5072
Title:  NS 5072
Description:  Never noticed the headlight holes below the number boards on the high nose of a Norfolk Southern GP38 before. Did they ever have headlights installed at that spot?
Photo Date:  12/28/2013  Upload Date: 12/18/2014 5:59:33 AM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  NS 5072(GP38-2)
Views:  112   Comments: 0
SOU 65666
Title:  SOU 65666
Description:  This is a frequently used spacer car in the hot metal bottle train.
Photo Date:  12/28/2013  Upload Date: 12/18/2014 5:59:36 AM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  87   Comments: 0
INLX 155
Title:  INLX 155
Description:  The first hot metal bottle car in this returning train is INLX 155, formerly Inland Steel but now under the ArcelorMittal name.
Photo Date:  12/28/2013  Upload Date: 12/18/2014 5:59:38 AM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  94   Comments: 1
SOU 66628
Title:  SOU 66628
Description:  Here is another frequently used spacer car in hot metal bottle trains.
Photo Date:  12/28/2013  Upload Date: 12/18/2014 5:59:41 AM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  79   Comments: 0
INLX 137
Title:  INLX 137
Description:  The 2nd hot metal bottle car is INLX 137, formerly an Inland Steel car, now part of the ArcelorMittal family.
Photo Date:  12/28/2013  Upload Date: 12/18/2014 5:59:43 AM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  91   Comments: 0
INLX 137
Title:  INLX 137
Description:  Another view of the returning hot metal bottle car, INLX 137.
Photo Date:  12/28/2013  Upload Date: 12/18/2014 5:59:46 AM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  100   Comments: 0
SOU 66085
Title:  SOU 66085
Description:  Trailing hot metal bottle car INLX 137 is this Southern gondola used as a spacer car.
Photo Date:  12/28/2013  Upload Date: 12/18/2014 5:59:48 AM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  87   Comments: 0
Unusual order
Title:  Unusual order
Description:  Normally in a hot metal bottle car there would be a bottle car between these two gondolas. This is the first time I've seen two spacer cars together in this type of train so it makes me wonder if a car was pulled from the returning line up. Will never know but it is an unusual order for a bottle train.
Photo Date:  12/28/2013  Upload Date: 12/18/2014 5:59:51 AM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  101   Comments: 0
INLX 201
Title:  INLX 201
Description:  The 3rd hot metal bottle car is INLX 201, formerly an Inland Steel car, now part of the ArcelorMittal family.
Photo Date:  12/28/2013  Upload Date: 12/18/2014 5:59:53 AM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  124   Comments: 0
SOU 65993
Title:  SOU 65993
Description:  Here is another spacer car in hot metal bottle trains.
Photo Date:  12/28/2013  Upload Date: 12/18/2014 5:59:56 AM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  86   Comments: 0
INLX 145
Title:  INLX 145
Description:  The 4th hot metal bottle car is INLX 145, formerly an Inland Steel car, now under the ArcelorMittal family name.
Photo Date:  12/28/2013  Upload Date: 12/18/2014 5:59:58 AM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  80   Comments: 0
SOU 65951
Title:  SOU 65951
Description:  The last car in the returning hot metal bottle train is this Southern gondola.
Photo Date:  12/28/2013  Upload Date: 12/18/2014 6:00:00 AM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  96   Comments: 0
And the bottle train continues east . . .
Title:  And the bottle train continues east . . .
Description:  back to the ArcelorMittal steel plant in East Chicago, IN.
Photo Date:  12/28/2013  Upload Date: 12/18/2014 6:00:02 AM
Location:  Dolton, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  NS 5072(GP38-2)
Views:  176   Comments: 4

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