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Pictures of GTW 5808
 
Owner: Grand Trunk Western
Model:EMD GP38ACBuilt As:Builder Info (Unavailable )
Serial Number:37937Order No:
Frame Number:37937Built:
Notes:To CV, to LLPX, to GMTX.
Other locos with this serial:  GMTX 2253(GP38) CV 5808(GP38AC) GTW 1776(GP38AC) LLPX 2216(GP38AC) GTW 5808(GP38AC)
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Grand Trunk on the Harbor
Title:  Grand Trunk on the Harbor
Description:  A Grand Trunk transfer with-what else??-auto frames, rolls south on the IHB headed for Michigan. I'd see 5808 again in Vermont when it went to the CV a few years later.
Photo Date:  3/22/1984  Upload Date: 5/17/2014 3:26:38 AM
Location:  La Grange, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  GTW 5836(GP38-2) GTW 5808(GP38AC)
Views:  621   Comments: 0
Local power
Title:  Local power
Description:  Newer power was starting to creep in to the CV, in this case GTW GP 38 5808, which spent several years here. Its seen in the yard in the company of more long standing power.
Photo Date:  6/17/1986  Upload Date: 11/22/2014 2:34:12 AM
Location:  Palmer, MA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  GTW 5808(GP38AC) CV 4549(GP9)
Views:  696   Comments: 2
Ready to swap
Title:  Ready to swap
Description:  Train 562 rolls up to the siding at Monson. Here it will drop its train, and pick up cars to go back to Palmer.
Photo Date:  1/20/1987  Upload Date: 12/29/2014 2:55:06 AM
Location:  Monson, MA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CV 4549(GP9) CV 3602(GP18) CV 4450(GP9) CV 4447(GP9) GTW 5808(GP38AC)
Views:  946   Comments: 3
CV 4549
Title:  CV 4549
Description:  CV 4549 leads train 444 as it prepares to set out cars at Stafford Springs CT. I started driving up from NY City at 430 in a snowstorm to catch this shot.
Photo Date:  1/20/1987  Upload Date: 12/3/2011 1:25:40 AM
Location:  Stafford Springs, CT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  CV 4549(GP9) CV 3602(GP18) CV 4450(GP9) CV 4447(GP9) GTW 5808(GP38AC)
Views:  1009   Comments: 1
Short train back
Title:  Short train back
Description:  Train 562 has picked up the northbound cars and is now on its way back to Palmer. Two cars today.
Photo Date:  1/20/1987  Upload Date: 12/29/2014 2:57:25 AM
Location:  Monson, MA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  GTW 5808(GP38AC) CV 4447(GP9) CV 4450(GP9) CV 3602(GP18) CV 4549(GP9)
Views:  921   Comments: 1

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