I kinda wish this railroad had lasted longer. Nice paint on locos and IMHO the best looking coal hoppers ever. One of my favorite GEs back before EPA stifled that beautiful exhaust sound. Hey, ... (more)

Swept away by time. Now there's no mine, no town, no railroad and no big red GEs hauling gigantic trains from the middle of nowhere. I thought was a great place for LA to put its waste but that ... (more)

Backed by a sky any old photographer for locomotive builder would like, this ex-L&N unit takes a rest. Photo by Craig Hatter. From my collection.

Summertime and an ex L&N unit in an early paint scheme is bringing a coal train over another departure track to head north.

LSI 3000 leads a duo of U30C's on the 3 Tilden as they pull through the rock cut at Eagle Mills Junction.

5829, 5006, 5545, 7055, 7852, SP8729 and SP8751 depart Pueblo on a loaded coal.

It's the Illinois Railway Museum's annual Diesel Days event, and on this Saturday the mainline trains were running primarily with hood units. Here, on the museum grounds, BN 5383 pauses at the Mai... (more)

DE, Detroit Edison U30C 020, leads a northbound coal train out of Blacksville mine on the MGA's Waynesburg Southern at Wana Junction, Shamrock, Pennsylvania. March 24, 1982. Jack D Kuiphoff © pho... (more)

LS&I, Lake Superior and Ishpeming, U30C 3009-3005, with the 7-weigher, Empire Junction, Michigan. October 10, 2003. Jack D Kuiphoff photo ©

Test Trains. Department of Transportation U30C no. 001 is seen on display with other equipment at the Pueblo Railway Museum in Pueblo, Colorado. The locomotive worked for many years at ... (more)

U30Cs 3006 and 3001 haul coal loads from Republic mine.

OLATHE KS March 10 1979 — UP U30C 2959 leads a mixed freight. Note someone cleaned select characters on the nose. Maybe no connection but Wikipedia records, “U-29 was responsible for sinking t... (more)

COUNCIL BLUFFS IA Sept 28 1979 — UP U30C 2955 awaits an assignment. GE built the unit (b/n 40960) in October 1976. Utahrails.net records that the 2955 “was the last U30C on UP, retired on 19 S... (more)

SOO only owned 10 "Boats" so they were an oddity to find out and about. They looked nice and sounded great but by all accounts there were numerous reasons they had a lifespan of about 1... (more)

WALSENBURG CO Oct 21 1977 -- BN U30C 5811 leads a coal train. The unit was delivered July 1973 and retired April 1987. My photo.