GP38-2 - Midwest Central

GP38-2 - Midwest Central

Midwest Central's GP38-2 is a Paintshed reskin of the Auran model in the brown and green MidCen livery, one of ten units numbered 9801-9810. Many thanks to CSX_60 for the use of his fine K5LA hornsound. Visit MidCen's homepage: http://trains.0catch.com.

Locomotive information:

In the mid 1960's as road switcher locomotives became more and more poweful, it was apparent that there was a demand for medium powered units among many of North America's railroads. In 1966, General Motors - Electro Motive Division issued a locomotive designed specifically for this market, the 2000hp GP38.

In 1972, a revised version was made available, which while externally very similar to it's predecessor, was a very different locomotive. The GP38-2's control system was electronic, and AC power produced by an alternator was rectified to supply the DC traction motors.

The GP38-2 proved to be a reliable and cost effective workhorse that found it's way onto most US railroads, and by 1980 sales had reached over 2000 units.

This popular locomotive is a great example of American railroading in the diesel era.

GP38-2 - Midwest Central
• colormap.dat 372 bytes
• config.txt 3.92KB
gp38_lo_dyn_alpha_numbers
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gp38_lo_dyn_art
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gp38_lo_dyn_art_512.texture.txt 65 bytes
gp38_lo_dyn_art_icon.texture.txt 65 bytes
preview.bmp 768.05KB
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• main.bmp 768.05KB
• main.texture.txt 27 bytes
• midcengp38-240.jpg 15.46KB
• midcengp38-32.jpg 1.13KB
• midcengp38-512.jpg 60.93KB
• skin.dat 456 bytes