One of the first in the Reading Company Technical and Historical Society's collection. Shown here during an open house at Reading Shops and running on the Blue Mountain and Reading.

Secret City? How about Geep City? At far left there is former SOU GP30 #2561, at center ex-SBD/LN GP30 #1030, and at far right former SOU GP30 #2608.

The 1979 Pacific Railroad Society "Mountain Outin" passenger special, with Amtrak SDP40F 518 and 517, is coasting down the south track after going around Sullivan's Curve and crossing over from th... (more)

Just a few months before its retirement a Southern GP30 has lead a southbound into Atlanta.

Southern Appalachia Railway Museum's next project: former Southern Railway GP30 #2608. The museum already has another, 2561 in operation. The 2608 had new wheels placed under it within the last we... (more)

Local Power A pair of EMD GPs soaks up the sun in McCook, Nebraska, on September 14, 2012. BNSF Railway GP39-2R 2817 was, as its distinctive carbody suggests, built as a GP30 by EMD in Jul... (more)

An oldie but goodie shot on Kodachrome II film near LaGrange, IL on the July 4 weekend of 1966. Never to se seen again :).

A pair of classic Rio Grande EMDs are switching at the west end of Provo Yard in June 1977. GP30 #3018 was built new for the D&RGW in Feb. 1963 while GP35 #3032 was build new in May 1964. By 1998,... (more)

Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp departs its namesake city for Roper Yard with double cabooses on May 5, 1987. From this perspective, you might not realize the location is in the middle of the I-15 and ... (more)

Three Southern GPs and a SW1500 bring train #83 southbound through Pomona Yard in Greensboro || February 1972

With a five pack of EMD geeps for power, a Rio Grande manifest curves east through the Green River Desert near Thompson Springs. The winter of 1978-79 must have been a wet one with abundant greene... (more)

Soo Line train No. 11 leaves Duplainville, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of July 26, 1987. Power is a matching set of Soo GP30s; Nos. 716 and 703.

A Rio Grande freight makes a switch move on the eastward main track in Provo Yard. The track veering off to the left is the UP-D&RGW interchange track, used frequently for the transfer of empty co... (more)

The conductor of a Rio Grande freight offers the photographer a friendly wave as his train heads east through the Green River Desert near Thompson. Afternoon storms are brewing over the La Salle M... (more)