THISTLE UT Aug 22 1981 — Rio Grande GP30 3013 charges west. This location was destroyed when a huge slide began on April 14, 1983 (http://utahrails.net/drgw/thistle-vanished.php). Web site utah... (more)

In late 2013, a Greenville & Western crew gets another run with the Aiken Railway GP30 #4201 before she is sent to home rails for the first time.

WC day one
On October 11, 1987, the first Wisconsin Central freight train to climb Byron Hill out of Shops Yard at North Fond du Lac, approaches the top of the grade at Byron, Wisconsin... (more)

Two veteran high hood locomotives sit at Grand Junction at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga. Former Southern Railway GP30 #2594 is nearest us. She was built in 1963. In 1982, sh... (more)

The Cincinnati Dinner Train's "Fireworks Train" brought nearly 180 diners to the 46nd annual Western & Southern WEBN Fireworks this year. CRC 902 looked great in restored NKP colors whil... (more)

The annual Cincinnati Railway Fireworks Train splits the classic PRR CPL Signals at CP OAKLEY on the I&O's Oasis Subdivision.

Two models representing a 20-year difference in EMD "General Purpose" locomotive production are now stablemates at the B&O Railroad Museum. B&O 6944 is a GP30 built in November 1962. C... (more)

Soo Line train 11 meets train 18 at Rugby, Wisconsin, late in the afternoon of July 26, 1987. Train 11 is led by Soo EMD SD40 No. 780, while a pair of EMD GP30s built in 1963 powers train 11.

We were there to shoot the 1702, the railroad's steam engine. But I had not shot the GSMR's newest diesel (at the time) the ex-Santa Fe GP30. So while my friend swent back to the car to start the ... (more)

On a bright April 23, 1989 afternoon, northbound Fox River Valley Railroad PRGBA (Proviso Yard in Chicago to Green Bay) freight rolls past the stately barn of Luxerin Farms at Marblehead, just sou... (more)

Two sets of Soo Line power rest outside the roundhouse at Stevens Point, Wisconsin, on August 30, 1987. In a couple of months, the route through here will become part of the new regional Wisconsin... (more)

Greenville & Western crew gets another run with the Aiken Railway GP30 #4201 before she is sent to home rails for the first time in late 2013. This is also a somewhat rare move as the crew normall... (more)

Santa Fe’s 301 train, a Kansas City to Chicago mainline local, rolls along a trackside pond approaching Leeds, Illinois, on May 30, 1992. An all-EMD line up behind lead EMD GP30 No. 2772 include... (more)

The Smiling 732, a GP30 flanked by a car carrier and reefer cars on either side takes a well deserved break on a early sunny morning at Browder Yard, Dallas

Three generations of EMD Diesel-electric power are nicely lined up in Asheville - FP7 3499, GP30 2562 and SD60 6584. The FP7 had been Southern's 6147 and four of these units will pull an excursion... (more)