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EMD GP38-2
CN 4769, a GP38-2W, operates in St Felicien, Quebec. |
NS 5610, a GP38-2, operates long hood forward through Ridgewood, New Jersey |
| Power type |
Diesel-electric |
| Service class |
Locomotive |
| Type of service |
Road switcher |
| Builder |
General Motors Electro-Motive Division (GM-EMD) |
| Model |
GP38-2 |
| Build date |
January 1972 – July 1986 |
| Total production |
2,208 |
| AAR wheel arr. |
B-B |
| UIC classification |
B'B' |
| Gauge |
4 ft 8½ in (1,435 mm) |
| Length |
59 ft 2 in (18.03 m) |
| Prime mover |
EMD 16-645 |
| Engine type |
Two-stroke diesel |
| Aspiration |
Roots type supercharger |
| Cylinders |
V16 |
| Transmission |
AC alternator, DC traction motors |
| Power output |
2,000 hp (1.49 MW) |
| Locomotive brakes |
Straight air, dynamic braking |
| Train brakes |
26-L air |
| Locale |
North America |
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An EMD GP38-2 is a four-axle diesel-electric locomotive of the road switcher type built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division. Part of the EMD Dash 2 line, the GP38-2 was an upgraded version of the earlier GP38. Power was provided by an EMD 645E 16-cylinder engine, which generated 2000 horsepower (1.5 MW).[1]
[edit] Spotting features
The GP38-2 differs externally from the earlier GP38 only in minor details. There is a cooling water level sight glass on the right side of the hood, and the battery box covers are bolted down, instead of hinged. It can be distinguished from the contemporary GP39-2 and GP40-2 in that its Roots blown engine had two exhaust stacks, one each side of the dynamic brake fan if fitted, while the turbocharged GP39-2 and GP40-2 has a single stack. The GP39-2 has two radiator fans on the rear of the long hood like the GP38-2, however the GP40-2 has three.
[edit] GP38-2W
The GP38-2W is a Canadian variant of the GP38-2. It is easily distinguished by its wide-nose Canadian comfort cab. 51 of these locomotives were produced for Canadian National Railway during 1973–1974.
There are snow-shields above the inertial-filter central air intakes behind the cab; the electrical boxes and equipment blower behind the cab also differ in detail from a standard GP38-2. They are otherwise identical.[2]
[edit] Original Buyers
1,801 examples of this locomotive model were built for American railroads, 254 for Canadian railroads and 133 for Mexican railroads. In addition to these, 20 more examples were built with high short hoods containing steam generators for use on Mexican railroads.[3]
| Railroad |
Quantity |
Road numbers |
Notes |
| Angelina and Neches River Railroad |
1
|
2000 |
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| ARMCO Steel |
1
|
B84 |
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| Atlanta and Saint Andrews Bay Railroad |
3
|
508–510 |
|
| Belt Railway of Chicago |
6
|
490–495 |
|
| Boston and Maine Railroad |
12
|
201–212 |
|
| Burlington Northern Railroad |
37
|
2078–2109, 2150–2154 |
|
| Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway |
2
|
108–109 |
|
| Chicago and North Western Railway |
35
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4600–4634 |
ordered by Rock Island |
| Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad |
10
|
2000–2009 |
|
| Cleveland Electric Illunimnating Company |
9
|
100–108 |
|
| Colorado and Wyoming Railway |
2
|
2001–2002 |
|
| Conrail |
119
|
8163–8281 |
|
| Curtis, Milburn and Eastern |
4
|
817–819, 810 |
|
| Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad |
8
|
221–228 |
|
| Durham and Southern Railway |
4
|
2000–2003 |
|
| Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway |
5
|
700–704 |
|
| Family Lines System (Clinchfield Railroad) |
8
|
6000–6006, 6045 |
|
| Family Lines System (Atlanta and West Point Rail Road) |
2
|
6007–6008 |
|
| Family Lines System (Georgia Railroad) |
2
|
6009–6010 |
|
| Family Lines System (Louisville and Nashville Railroad |
34
|
6011–6044 |
|
| Family Lines System (Seaboard Coast Line Railroad) |
20
|
6046–6065 |
|
| Florida East Coast Railroad |
11
|
501–511 |
|
| Grand Trunk Western Railroad |
25
|
5812–5836 |
|
| Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad |
15
|
740–754 |
to Illinois Central Gulf |
| Illinois Central Railroad |
40
|
9600–9639 |
|
| Illinois Terminal Railroad |
4
|
2001–2004 |
|
| Kansas City Southern Railway |
12
|
4000–4011 |
|
| Lehigh Valley Railroad |
12
|
314–325 |
|
| Long Island Rail Road |
28
|
250–277 |
|
| Louisville and Nashville Railroad |
95
|
4050–4144 |
to Family Lines |
| Milwaukee Road |
16
|
350–365 |
to Soo Line |
| Mississippi Export Railroad |
2
|
65–66 |
|
| Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad |
18
|
304–321 |
|
| Missouri Pacific Railroad |
274
|
858–959, 2111–2334 |
|
| Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México |
124
|
|
|
| Penn Central |
223
|
7940–8162 |
to Conrail |
| Phelps Dodge Corporation |
8
|
1–4, 9, 55, 56, 58 |
|
| Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad |
6
|
2051–2056 |
|
| Providence and Worcester Railroad |
4
|
2006–2009 |
|
| Public Service Company of Indiana |
2
|
WG1, WG2 |
|
| Rock Island |
68
|
4300–4379 |
to Chicago and North Western Railway upon bankruptcy of Rock Island |
| San Manuel Arizona |
2
|
16–17 |
|
| Seaboard Coast Line Railroad |
56
|
500–555 |
to Family Lines |
| Soo Line Railroad |
53
|
790–799, 4410–4452 |
790–799 renumbered 4400–4409 |
| South East Coal Company |
3
|
3821–3823 |
|
| Southern Railway |
257
|
5000–5256 |
High short hood; to Norfolk Southern Railway |
| Southern Pacific Railroad |
45
|
4800–4844 |
|
| St. Louis-San Francisco Railway |
116
|
400–478, 663–699 |
to Burlington Northern |
| Texas Mexican Railway |
7
|
861–867 |
|
| Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway |
11
|
2001–2011 |
|
| Union Pacific Railroad |
60
|
2000–2059 |
|
| Vermont Railway |
2
|
201–202 |
|
| Locomotives built by GMD, London, Ontario |
| Canadian National Railway |
60
|
5500–5559 |
|
| Canadian National Railway |
51
|
5560–5610 |
GP38-2W |
| Canadian Pacific Railway |
115
|
3021–3135 |
|
| Devco Railway |
13
|
216–228 |
|
| Ontario Northland Railway |
10
|
1800–1809 |
|
| Texas Gulf Sulphur Company |
2
|
054–055 |
|
[edit] References
- ^ Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1973). The Second Diesel Spotter's Guide. Milwaukee, WI: Kalmbach Publishing Co.. ISBN 0-89024-026-4.
- ^ Foster, Gerald (1996). A Field Guide to Trains of North America. Houghton Mifflin Field Guides, 74–75. ISBN 0-395-70112-0.
- ^ Marre, Louis A.; Pinkepank, Jerry A. (1989). The Contemporary Diesel Spotter's Guide. Waukesha, WI: Kalmbach Books. ISBN 0-8902-6088-4.
[edit] External links
US Government test of GP38-2 with biodiesel.
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