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Three Mile Island "Glow Car"

February 1989

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Three Mile Island "Glow Car"
  • Title
  • Three Mile Island "Glow Car"
  • Creator
  • Kobus, Ken
  • Date
  • February 1989
  • Identifier
  • 200618.28.2.5
  • Description
  • CONRAIL Locomotives 6644(SD40), 7701(GP40), and 8118(GP38), returning from Washington, D.C., with the empty Three Mile Island "glow car." This car was used to transport waste from the site of the nuclear meltdown in 1979 at Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania near Harrisburg.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
    slides (photographs)
  • Subject
  • Locomotives
    Railroad trains
    Railroad cars
    Radioactive wastes--Transportation
    Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant (Pa.)
    CONRAIL
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Baden (Pa.)
  • Source
  • Ken Kobus Photograph Collection, 1980-1990
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Ken Kobus Collection
  • Rights Information
  • In Copyright. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
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