Baltimore & Ohio GP30 No. 6900 and Chesapeake & Ohio GP35 No. 3526 sit at B&OCT’s Barr Yard in Riverdale, Illinois, on August 10, 1986.

INER 2185 leads its train into Hillsdale, Michigan as it curves into their yard.

A westbound Washington Eastern Railroad tie train in Reardan, WA on its way to Davenport, WA.

BNSF 2746 started life in 1964 as a GP35 for the Southern Pacific. It later operated for the Burlington Northern and now runs for the BNSF as a GP39E. 55 years old and still making bank.

Almost like the “good old days”
Even after Union Pacific’s merger of Southern Pacific, for several years, locomotives for the West local out of Denver on the former Rio Grande Mof... (more)

Still looks like a GP30
BNSF EMD GP39-2 No. 2744 still carries the classic lines of an early 1960s-built GP30, minus the clutter on the roof, as it switches Greybull yard after arriving ... (more)

My first time in America, I expected to find it in the UP paint scheme, but that month the re painting work had begun.

SSW GP30 754 original numbers 750-759, they were renumbered to 5000-5009.

Even after Union Pacific’s merger of Southern Pacific, for several years, locomotives for the West local out of Denver on the Moffat Tunnel route was a pair of Rio Grande GP30s. They ran west on... (more)

GP30s still in the early L&N gray-and-yellow scheme (slanted letters and numbers/black outline on numbers and letters) get a little attention.

Switch crew serve a downtown customer (Macon Telegraph?) on trackage that would be removed a few years later. That is Southern's mainline to Atlanta above 1328.

Urban railroading in the Treasure Valley. The old UP Boise Cutoff that once hosted at least two passenger trains per day, but now all that remains (for now) is this typically 15-20 car local, loco... (more)

Famously Hot Columbia. On a very warm Sunday morning, a local CSX destined for Sumter heads through Devine Junction to get on the Eastover Sub as part of running the Wye to organize the ca... (more)

The Western Maryland Scenic Railroad GP30 #501 is leading an excursion down the grade into Cumberland over the Route 40 overpass bridge. To the left are some visitors from near Portland Oregon who... (more)

A B&O GP30 brings a Western Maryland caboose across the diamonds at Dolton on their return to nearby Barr Yard. Tom Golden photo.