One of several Burlington Northern painted C30-7s in operation in Brazil

My dad captured this gem. Railroading at it's finest. Five C30-7's with a loaded coal train, working up hill, with the sanders on. I can only imagine the sound, (Tom Ellis photo)

Out of the haze, a westbound helper set heads to Farm for another shove. On a good day a haze remained in the tunnel from lots of trains and if a little east wind was blowing in Coopers the ghost... (more)

An eastbound freight roars by. I think we drooled. Each of those white cars contained refrigerated, unpasteurized high gravity Coors beer going to northern Virginia to be watered down. Coors is... (more)

I think that fellow taking pictures was me. And it's cold as a westbound string of empty hoppers make their way out of the gloom. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

Three BN C30-7s share the honors with an SD70MAC leading a coal train that is about to rattle the UP diamonds in Fremont, NE. Fuji Astia.

It is a crisp, clear day in Cajon Pass after a winter storm has dumped snow on the mountains. Union Pacific 2507 exits tunnel number 1. A lot has changed at this locations since this photograph wa... (more)

A Santa Fe freight heads east behind a C30-7, F45, C30-7, SD40-2, SD40-2 consist … so typical of the railway’s power consists in the late 80s. (Corona, California – January 1988)

The MRS MOW train during the crew change at Paranapiacaba yard and behind the train, a replica of British clock Big Ben.

The Everett to Roosevelt garbage loads are a little over 20 miles form their destination at Roosevelt, Washington. Even after the BNSF merger, the lead GE was something of a rare bird in the North... (more)

It seemed to us that the U-boats and SD40-2s and nicely matched coal trains would last forever but in hindsight it wasn't that long. Photo by Gary Zeitler.

FARWELL TX July 7 1986 — Santa Fe C30-7 8146 awaits an assignment. A few days later I shot this unit west of Mountainaire NM. GE built the 8146 as an RCE Locotrol master in June 1981 and deliver... (more)

Locomotive that caught fire in the tail of a pulp train

"BellRail" Sunday at KSHCO (Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation) brought about a rare photo op with their cosmetically restored L&N (Family Lines) C30-7, as CSX local L35223 brought empt... (more)

On the former NKP Chicago-Fort Wayne line. The crew had "gone to beans" at a local eatery and left the motive power locked and idling on the main. They uncoupled from their train a half ... (more)