Union Pacific GE U30C 2874 at Kansas City; Built for UP, between 4/72 -10/76 GE U30C's numbered 2810-2959 for a total of 150 units. No photographer listed on slide.

The carbody looks like a U25B, but this is an early U28B on the P&LE roster. This is likely the most utilitarian paint scheme that I've seen on any Class 1 or regional RR.

MILW 5604 leads an RS2 slug, another U-boat and an F7 A-B-A set (B unit a slug) on a freight headed up Tacoma hill to Frederickson, WA. I am uncertain whether this was a Portland bound train or if... (more)

MILW 5802 leads another big GE, and SD40-2 and an SD45 into Black River Jct. along Milwaukee's Black River yard in Tukwila, just south of Seattle. This location was where the branch into Seattle, ... (more)

Baby Boat

In 1975, the Maine Central went shopping for its first new power in nine years, and chose ten of GE’s U18B “baby boats”. With their unique 8-cylinder FDL engines, t... (more)

WB Rock Island Train on the main at Blue Island

A set of Pittsburgh and Lake Erie power rolls toward the engine house in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania. The P&LE U28B’s were early production, with the U25B carbody.

The first one! BN 5500, the first C30-7 produced, brings an empty coal train into Bill, WY on a beautiful day in May of 1990.

NORMAN OK Oct. 20, 1980 -- Santa Fe Train 6053 rolls north with U33C 8519 on point.

Before the Powder River coal line became the multi-track monster it is today, it was an incredibly busy piece of RR with portions of single track. Nothing say vintage coal line to me like this 5 u... (more)

Three of the Delaware & Hudson’s big six-axle U-boats (two U33C’s and one U30C) lead a northbound train through Treichlers, Pennsylvania.

Two Northern Pacific GE U28C's with BN numbers and a Southern Pacific Alco C630 7803 eastbound at Spokane, Washington May 26,1970. Photo part of my slide collection, no photographer listed.

Three GE C30-7s and a pair of KCS SD40-2s power a westbound Burlington Northern coal train departing Guernsey, Wyoming, on the Canyon Subdivision on July 4, 1988. The empty train is headed back to... (more)

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)

Maine Central class leader GE U18B #400 on turn table at MEC's round house in Bangor, Maine July 24, 1982.