These units were never meant to leads trains on the Santa Fe, but as a rare accurance it happen to be leading this train. Lucky for me.

Santa Fe U30CG 8001 (a former passenger diesel, ex-401) leads two SD45s and a U36C on a very short westbound San Bernardino to Los Angeles local (which will, no doubt, pick up more cars before it ... (more)

ATSF U30CG leads a westbound freight at Williams Jct. Unfortunately, the engineer forgot to turn on the headlights after meeting an earlier eastbound.

Only 6 built.