Consisting of a pair of C30-7s and a SD40-2, a UP caboose hop moves west along the IHB through Dolton. Tom Golden photo.

A Burlington Northern empty hopper train is northbound on the Joint Line at Castle Rock, CO.

Former N&W C30-7 8071, leads a mix of power on a northbound freight through High Point. The first car in the consist is a former Southern Railway Radio Car used to control mid-train helpers from ... (more)

Burlington Northern GE C30-7 No. 5554 passes a sister locomotive on another coal empty on a siding just east of Donkey Creek on May 29, 1998. Empty coal trains are frequently staged here waiting t... (more)

Northbound empties roll on the Joint Line at Larkspur, Colorado. A Santa Fe C30-7 conforms to the BN mold of SD40-2/U30C/C30-7 power for Powder River coal trains.

In the days when GE’s were preferred leaders, two Union Pacific C30-7’s lead an SD40-2 and a coal train through Speer, Wyoming,

Southbound loaded X30 crosses the Eng. Acrisio Viaduct in a sunny afternoon.

On the afternoon of April 30, 1988, a westbound Santa Fe stack train works upgrade through Houlihan’s Curve climbing Edelstein Hill west of Chillicothe, Illinois. The train is powered by GE C30-... (more)

Paul Meyer photo.

NW 8041 leads an empty hopper train westbound through Webster, VA.

Conrail Train ALCG (Allentown – Corning) works past the marble orchard at Meshoppen, Pennsylvania.

Norfolk Southern GE C30-7 8039, former NW 8039 with NS GP38-2 5168, former Southern 5168 heading east at Bellevue, Ohio.

A typical Burlington Northern coal train on Colorado’s Joint line in the 1980’s was powered by a mix of five 3000-horsepower six-axle units from GE and EMD. This train at Palmer Lake is no exc... (more)

Burlington Northern’s Powder River coal trains usually had a mix of five 3,000-horsepower six-axle units. Here a Southern Pacific tunnel motor has worked its way into the normal solid green lin... (more)