Chessie System (C&O) GE B30-7 8260 and (C&O) GP40-2 4383 at Willard, Ohio in January 1985. A Mike Bledsoe Photo.

An SD40-2 fills-in for the usual second B30-7 on the Montgomery-bound return leg of local 746.

SSW B30-7 7780, SP B30-7 7819 and SP GP40-2 7616.

CSX A723 steps out of the siding at the south end of Brownsand on CSXT's Fitzgerald Subdivision late on a February 2001 afternoon.

Southern Pacific GE B30-7 7838 and U30C 7919 heading east near Hearne, Texas. Photo from my slide collection, Photographer Mike Bledsoe.

Crewman rides the steps after dropping a couple cars in the house track.

A trio of "Boats" consisting of B30-7 5554 and two B36-7s, 5812 and 5822 stand at the Dog House in Union City, Georgia during a break in their work on A723. (Slide Scan)

MNNR 54, a former Frisco B30-7, switches at Midway Yard in St. Paul, Minnesota on a warm summer evening.

The crew of the long-distance Montgomery-Dothan local shoves tank cars into the PikNik Foods plant. Todays power set is comprised of a B30-7, GP38-2 and B23-7.

Wood products are stil in the traffic mix on a lot of Alabama railroads, but on many lines the amount and importance of such traffic has diminished greatly in the last few years. In this shot made... (more)

The Lake Shore Railway Museum's Lake Shore Railway Museum Honors our Heroes features CSX's three "Pride In Service" locomotives (911 "Spirit Of Our First Responders", 1776 &quo... (more)

SP 7874 shows off the Santa Fe Southern Pacific "Kodachrome" paint scheme while it sits in one of the helper spur at Bena.

A Cotton Belt freight has already crossed the Missouri Pacific diamonds and is about to hit the KCS diamond in the shadow of Cotton Belt Tower in Texarkana, TX. Second out in the engine consist i... (more)

The engineer bumps the throttle as his B30-7s clear the NS crossing, causing a small cloud of exhaust to float back over the train on an otherwise crisp January afternoon.

CSX B30-7 poses at Union City, Georgia during a break in the day's work. The white roofs did little to repel the heat although someone thought it was a good idea. It was clear this substance was h... (more)