A-OK, Arkansas-Oklahoma Railroad GP30U 2411, a former ATSF/BNSF motor poses for it's portrait at Shawnee, Oklahoma on the evening of May 9, 2019.

The stylish lines of EMD's GP30 series still thrives in a few places, one of these is on the Arkansas-Oklahoma Railroad. A pair of the carrier's "GP30s" with 645 power assemblies added a... (more)

With 4-axle power assigned in Bakersfield, a westbound pig train starts the long climb to the summit of Franklin Canyon at Maltby. The big oil storage tanks in the distance belong to Getty Oil.

Santa Fe 5205 West roars up the steep grade on the eastern slope of Tehachapi Pass. Compared to the 30+ miles it takes for eastbounds to reach the summit of the mountain, trains coming west reach ... (more)

Four-axle Santa Fe EMDs bring a long string of loaded tank cars through Christie, CA.

Santa Fe 2756 East emerges from tunnel 5 with her diesel exhaust billowing skyward. The freight is fighting a heavy grade and almost constant curvature. It was not unusual to see GP30s on the poin... (more)

On a warm afternoon in the spring of 1988, a Santa Fe westbound with four-axle locomotives for power heads downhill at Woodford. Rebuilt GP30u (for "upgrade") No. 2759 is in the lead wearing the r... (more)

GSMR 2467 sits ready to lead the Nantahala Gorge Excursion in the a.m.

The Nantahala Gorge Excursion departs Bryson City on time. 10:30 a.m.

Anyone order an undec GP30? Former ATSF/BNSF GP30U now Greenville & Western GRLW 4204 was built in March 1963 and acquired by GRLW in June of 2014. The unit is seen here standing in Belton, South ... (more)

On the Aggregate Industries spur just off of CSX's Popes Creek Subdivision in southern Maryland, a former Santa Fe GP30u idles away on the south end of a rock train. A CSX crew will take the empty... (more)

Saginaw, TX yard job working with GP30u 2728 in Sept 1990.

Yeah, it's BNSF, but it doesn't say so and it on the Gulf Coast, where it shouldn't be, which is neat. This one used to be in "Kodachrome", see elsewhere on this site.

Coupled up and ready to pull it's train to the CSX Interchange in Pelzer. Ugly Duckling ex-BNSF, ex-ATSF GP30 4203 is at the Ethanol unloading just before the rain clouds move in.