A hazy early morning at Columbus found UP 701 assigned as the local unit. The UP GP30's were becoming fairly rare by this date and the 701 looks a little worse for wear.
Numerous family/railfan vacations over the years allowed me a lot of time to photo the CNW in the Black Hills area. The Western Division GP35's with their roof mounted air tanks and big fuel tanks... (more)
I never spent much time on the Rock as I didn't start shooting slides until 1975-76 and even though I traveled the mid-west before it shut down I always seemed to concentrate on Soo, BN, CNW and t... (more)
I never had a lot of luck catching the Milwaukee's small fleet of GP30's, but I did get this one parked in Minneapolis in May of 1980. With the Milwaukee's pull back from the West Coast earlier in... (more)