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 wear. All t... (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.

UP GE U30C 2900 (2810-2959)

CNW 936 and 917 arrive at the North Fond Du Lac, WI yard in May of 1978. The CNW only had 7 of the U-Boats, and most went to Mexico after only 10 years of service. Fran Wiener Kodachrome from my c... (more)

CNW 934 and 933 wait to depart CNW's Butler, WI yard in April of 1974. The CNW only had 7 of the units, and they only lasted 10 years on the CNW before going to Mexico. 934 was wrecked however and... (more)

Soo Line 807, one of ten U30Cs owned by the railroad handles some switching at Humboldt Ave. Yard, across the Mississippi from Shoreham. The Dodge cab over pick up might be more rare than the GE a... (more)

Brake shoe smoke mixes with misty rain as a northbound Delaware & Hudson freight drops downgrade through South Schenectady, NY, on its way to the B&M connection at Mechanicville behind a U30C/U30C... (more)

With light snow falling, a northbound Delaware & Hudson coal train rolls through Delanson, NY,on the Susquehanna Division. Two grimy GE U30Cs bracket an Alco Century 628, and as you'd expect it's ... (more)

The N&W owned only three U 30Cs. Here # 8000 leads a typically N&W eclectic lash up on a rainy summer afternoon.The lead unit is followed by a pair of C-36-7s, a pair of GP-9s and a six axle EMD.