The Western Maryland Scenic "Spring Blossom" special rolls westbound through the Cumberland "Narrows" in the form of a WM-painted GP30 and four passenger cars. Barely visible at the bottom is CSX ... (more)
Even after Union Pacific’s merger of Southern Pacific, for several years, locomotives for the West local out of Denver on the Moffat Tunnel route was a pair of Rio Grande GP30s. They ran west on... (more)
A single SW1500 shares the engine facility with 10-12 B-B road units. The recently-filled turntable pit occupied the area of bare ground just in front of 2590.
Travel Worn and Ready for Duty Time has not been kind to the cosmetic appearance of Soo Line GP30 712. Faded paint and oxidation notwithstanding, the 23 year old EMD is still fully... (more)
This GP30 helps out on the West Shore Line Railroad (WTSE) on a winter day of operations filled with weather related difficulties. Seen here, it is still in full Conrail livery but is privately ow... (more)
A quick visit to Cheyenne to see last days of City's train I also found a GP-30 and "B" on the turntable.
South Boulder Creek is frozen in the January cold, but the head-end crew of this eastbound is reasonably comfortable thanks to an EMD redesign that has made cab and hood on its new GP30 model snug... (more)
GP30s still in the early L&N gray-and-yellow scheme (slanted letters and numbers/black outline on numbers and letters) get a little attention.
On L&N's line across the flatness of the Gulf Coast, tonnage ratings for locos were high, and long trains behind one or two mid-size B-Bs seemed fairly common.
With a manned GP30u fore and aft, the A-OK crew left Howe with 19 gons loaded with old crossties bound for Nevada Railroad Materials (NRM). At Wister, lead unit 2442 was cut-off and run into a si... (more)
An odd Conrail repaint of an ex-PC GP30 leading a patched ex-RDG GP30 and westbound hoppers. That old house looked like a railfan's paradise.
Southern GP30 #2601 sits in at the North Carolina Transportation Museum.
A Mobile-bound extra freight passes through Montgomery's hotspot - the GM&O tower near Bell Street which saw trains of L&N, ICG, SCL and WofA.
Inbound and outbound power is a zoo of models today. SD20 SD24 still in Southern paint, ex GM&O GP30 to. Back when if you stayed out of the way they just waved.
