GE C30-7 that was acting on the tail of a loaded train and caught fire during the trip awaiting transfer for maintenance or cutting in Embu Guaçu in 2019
Representing both makes on this Burlington Northern coal train, C30-7's and SD40-2's. GE, EMD, GE, EMD, GE. Tom Ellis photo.
Former Burlington Northern Dash 7 sits in Cayce, South Carolina and takes a pause before continuing onto her new contract.
Things are about to drastically change in the coal fields. It was on this trip that my dad photographed his first set of SD70MAC in their Grimstein paint. A huge order of SD70MAC are coming, and D... (more)
On a warm spring morning, an empty coal train accelerates away from the Sierras toward the desert.
Illinois Central Gulf interchange train #336, bound for East Thomas Yard in Birmingham, has C30-7 #7083, GP9 #1026, GP40 #1590 & C30-7 #7052 for ample power. #7083 was built November 1981 and wou... (more)
Swinging through three curves, a loaded coal train approaches Donkey Creek heading north on the Orin Subdivision on May 29, 1998. This early Burlington Northern Santa Fe train is powered by three ... (more)
LS&I's 3 Tilden after swapping power 3 times finally took the pair of C30-7's to the mine and back. Here they are rolling through Eagle Mills Junction with their first pull of the night.
Tom Golden photo.
Rumos GE C30-7 9401, ex-BNSF 5417, with The Pink Ribbon paint.
ATSF 8029 leads 2 Kodachome's across the Cottonwood River near Gladstone, KS in June of 1989.
The West Tennessee C30-7s are seen tied down at Jackson waiting for their next assignment.
Union Pacific train KCNPNS has just departed Marysville KS. That's the US Highway 77 crossing in the background.