Built in 1976 for the Department of Transportation, DOT U30C 001 spent it's career at the DOT's test facility east of Pueblo, Colorado. After retirement the unit was donated and now stands in down... (more)

A Lake Superior & Ishpeming ore run rolls a string of loads through Palmer Jct. as it heads from Tilden Mine back to Eagle Mills Yard. Later the cars will be handled down the grade to the ore dock... (more)

The control stand of the BN U30C at IRM.

A pair of Louisville & Nashville U-boats occupies the track behind the engine house in Corbin, Kentucky. U30C 1570 is in Family Lines paint, while U23B 2709 is pure L&N.

BN executive units 1 and 2, BN 5383, and executive unit 3 sit on display at IRM for the Burlington historical society event in June of this year.

LS&I U30Cs nos. 3000 and 3009 work a morning mine run returning from Tilden Mine to Eagle Mills, where another crew with CEFX power will take the train down to the Presque Isle ore dock. The forme... (more)

The 7 A.M. Tilden train returns to the yard at Eagle Mills with a load of taconite. These are some of, if not the last U30C's operating in the United States.

Chicago & North Western GE U30C 933 on Conrail, Conway, Pennsylvania. CNW U30C's (900-936)

Missouri Pacific GE U30C 2995 "screaming eagles", 3000hp built 01/74. The big GE wore two previous numbers T&P 3330, MP 3330 and will be assigned one more (UP 2995) that it will never w... (more)

BN 5383 leads the caboose train by the East Union depot.

LS&I U30C nos. 3000 and 3009 pull a trainload of ore headed for their dock out of Tilden Mine at Empire Jct. between Palmer and Eagle Mills, MI. No. 3000 was built in April 1974 as BN 5931, and li... (more)

The morning crew returns to Eagle Mills with its loaded ore train completing its round trip to Tilden Mine. Later a dock job will deliver the cars to the dock near Marquette, MI.

With a tight market for lease locomotives due to traffic levels on most North American railroads, the Lake Superior & Ishpeming continues to utilize its shrinking fleet of former BN U30Cs as a vit... (more)

LSI 3009 leads a second U30C on an empty ore train run from Eagle Mills to Tilden Mine in upper Michigan. The train is passing through Palmer Junction, and the foreground track is used by CN from ... (more)

BN 5383 and CBQ 9911A look on from Barn 9 at IRM last night.