Reading Blue Mountain & Northern (often abbreviated to just Reading & Northern) GP30RN 2531 was built at Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway GP30 1238 by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in January 1963. In the early 1970s the ATSF renumbered it 3238, then renumbered it again to 2738 when it was rebuilt into a GP30u in the 1980s. When the ATSF merged with Burlington Northern, this Geep acquired yet another new identity: Burlington Northern Santa Fe 2438. BNSF eventually sold it to Larry’s Truck & Electric, which resold it to the Reading Blue Mountain & Northern, becoming RBMN GP30RN 2531. This units was 62-years-old when photographed in Port Clinton, Pennsylvania, on September 26, 2025.
This locomotive is dedicated to the memory of RBMN engineer Jeffrey A. Seidel.
Photographed on railroad property with permission and full PPE.
