Southbound C&O train passing through Fostoria

BN 5342 and two C30-7s are ready to head east from Alliance, NE towards Grand Island and Lincoln. If lucky they will get underway before the background storm hits town. this storm was part of a sy... (more)

N&W U30C #8000 at South Yard in Roanoke, VA in this May 1977 scene.

DE coal train Toledo

Those U30C's sure could smoke! Or maybe it's the Lima 2-8-4 that's on the next track.

There aren't too many places currently where you can see an operating U30C!

A U30C is teamed up with SD40-2 on a westbound freight climbing out of the Mississippi River valley in Davenport. This Kodachrome was processed in February 1977.

A trio of C-Cs - including a Family Lines U30C, L&N SD35 and CN SD40 - heads through Hopkinsville on their way to a rendezvous with a coal train.

On a beautiful June morning, five UP U30Cs lead a WP manifest eastward around the Williams Loop.

Early on a beautiful summer's morning, five UP U30Cs lead an eastbound WP freight along the Middle Fork of the Feather River.

Rounding the famed Tehachapi Loop is a four-unit helper set, consisting of three Southern Pacific U30C diesels and one SP SD40. (October 22, 1972)

A pair of LS&I's veteran GE's are seen entering the wye at Empire junction making there way up to the mine. With the Cascade Green quickly being phased out it was a welcomed sight and sound.

Found in Union Pacific's East Yard, just southeast of downtown Los Angeles, is an impressive string of fairly new U30Cs. 2837 was built by General Electric in March of 1973, just three months bef... (more)

C&O veteran engineer Lon Venters Jr. is at the controls as 192 passes through Pikeville on the south end of town. The posted speed through the town was 30 mph. Knowing Lon I know he will waste no... (more)

A Detroit Edison coal train rolls south (timetable north) on the Monongahela Manor Branch. These trains were heavy, typically with mid-train helpers and upwards of one hundred and forty 140-ton ho... (more)