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NS #16Q at Dallas, Georgia - 8/26/00

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Uploaded by on Feb 12, 2010

At 10:31am on Saturday, August 26, 2000, the engineer on southbound manifest train #16Q struggles to keep the long, heavy freight moving through Dallas, Georgia, milepost 118.7H of NS's Atlanta North District. Locomotives include NS GP38-2 #5161, NS GP38-2 #5242, NS GP38-2 #5134, and NS MP15DC #2420. Obviously, the #5242 has some major problems as it provides its best steam locomotive impersonation. The sound the GP38-2s were making in Run 8 as they passed by was almost deafening but music to my ears!

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  • Looks like a steamer!!!

  • @dwkcamman611 Yes, it does!

  • @southern7002x is that train good for the environment...whats causing it to smoke so much

  • @jusprazem1 Refer to railfan 78559's explanation below.

  • that day was my birthday

  • Pretty neat!

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  • @southern7002x thanks

  • correction on typo: B23-7s

  • @MrPinto1970 When a locomotive belches out thick clouds of black smoke, that means that the locomotive's traction motors are overworked, causing the diesel fuel consumption to increase to boost the tractive force, as a result more fuel than normal is being burned which accounts for the increase amount of smoke. GP38 locomotives are not turbo-charged and the MP15 added to the plight. Every GE loco was turbocharged so locomotives like the B32-7s would have been better suited for this train.

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