Back from a trip out the Redlands Branch, Santa Fe's first GP30 waits out the evening forty-six years to the month after its builder's date.
Sitting on the south side of the plant waiting for a crew.
Heading up the BNSF Pasadena Sub Local on this Friday afternoon is BNSF 2436, an ex-Santa Fe GP30u, about to duck under the Foothill Freeway in Glendora on its return trip to Kaiser Yard in Fontan... (more)
An empty Santa Fe - UP coal train is led by a venerable GP30 over Tehachapi Creek just beyond the east switch of Woodford.
A GP30/GP35 combo work in the ATSF yard at Pueblo.
BNSF East local from La Crosse, WI - Savanna, IL heads east through La Crosse with a rare engine leading.
Rounding the curve at Kernan, the local picks up speed after stopping in Streator for a meet with a westbound Z-9.
GP30u sitting in the Commerce Maintenance Facility tracks in between switching and short-haul jobs.
This old workhorse is still earning it's keep pulling hard on 100 cars westbound from Northtown Yard to Willmar, MN.
Strange bedfellows: a GP30 and an SD70MAC head north on the Glasston Sub, possibly heading to Drayton to pick up a grain train. Pretty strange seeing this power paired together...
Old power heads west towards Sparks with a local.
Still nice to see classic power on a class 1 railroad.
Santa Fe Bluebonnet GP30 2408, Santa Fe Bluebonnet GP30 2444 and EMDX GP38-2 758 ease to a stop at Joliet Union Station with today's CHI102 local.
Switching the intermodal yard.