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The bottle train

The molten steel train known as the Bottle Train rolls the bottle cars back to Cleveland Cliffs former Inland Steel Indiana Harbor Works plant in East Chicago, Indiana after delivering the liquid steel to their former Acme Riverdale plant in Riverdale, Illinois. NS inherited this interesting operation from Conrail and has since been handed off to the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad. On this particular day I'm not sure whether IHB or NS was in charge here since a locomotive from each is on the train. The train has just crossed NS' Chicago Line District and can be seen on the left.

NS GP38-3 5809 started out life as Southern GP50 7080, built by EMD for Southern in April of 1981, and I'm sure proudly hauled some of Southern's hot-shot trailers, quite possibly long hood forward.

Check out some cool information and shots of Indiana Harbor Works here:
clui.org/ludb/site/indiana-harbor-works-steel-plant

Taken on: November 28, 2020

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Camera: Nikon D7000, f/16.0, 1/125 sec, 18mm (=27mm), ISO 125 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D7000
Lens:	18.0-55.0 mm f/3.5-5.6
Aperture:	f/16.0
Exposure Time:	0.008 sec (1/125)
Focal Length:	18mm (35mm equivalent: 27mm)
ISO:	125
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Shutter speed priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
White Balance:	Auto
Saturation:	High
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Lightroom 7.1.2 (Windows)
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