Spending a couple hours on a windy bridge in frigid temperatures was a small price to pay to see two faded old coal warriors leading a train of intermodal and auto racks.

CNW 936 was the final U30C purchased by C&NW. Here it moves west near Eau Claire tower where it will divert to the main track to Spooner and Superior with a Twin Ports bound freight. The GEs spent... (more)

CNW 932 was one of seven U30Cs acquired by C&NW in between multiple orders of SD45s in early 1968. This I believe was the only one painted in the scheme shown. This variation was tried from the la... (more)

LSI 3002 sets out a cut of ore jimmies at Partridge Siding in July of 1990. The CNW would pick up the cars for the trip to Escanaba. The U-Boats had recently replaced the Alco's on the LS&I, and a... (more)

A pair of former BN U30C's roll out of the LS&I yard at Eagle Mills, Michigan with the morning's 7 Weigher job in tow to bring empties down for loading. With bridge and road work on Route 35, ther... (more)

LS&I 3000 Leads a two unit Iron Ore train out of the Tilden Mine in Michigans Upper Pennisula

On a spring day, two U30Cs and a Century 628 are on the point of a southbound Delaware & Hudson freight rolling through East Worcester, NY, bound for either Binghamton or Wilkes-Barre.

After completing the process of loading and weighing a train of hoppers with taconite pellets, the LS&I's 7 Weigher Job comes around the south leg of the wye at Empire Junction with a pair of form... (more)

After completing the process of loading a weighing a train a hoppers with taconite pellets, the LS&I's 7 Weigher Job comes around the south leg of the wye at Empire Junction with a pair of former ... (more)

With a matching pair of former Burlington Northern GE U30C's on the point, the Lake Superior & Ishpeming's 7 Weigher rolls through the rock cut at Eagle Mills Junction, Michigan with a train of em... (more)

CSX U30C 7263, still wearing predecessor Seaboard System’s colors, crosses Main Street and passes the old Baltimore & Ohio depot in Fostoria OH. The "U-Boat" was built by General Electric as Lo... (more)

Retiring near work. DOTX 001 (GE U30C, 6/1971) spent its career working at the US Department Of Transportation testing center in Pueblo, Colorado. Upon retirement it was donated to the Pueblo Rail... (more)

With wash on the line, a suspension footbridge across the creek in the front yard, and coal trains in the back yard, the residence to the extreme right of the photo oozes Appalachia. The train is ... (more)

Three Louisville & Nashville unite still in L&N paint pull northbound empties through Girdler, Kentucky. By this time, it was becoming increasingly difficult to find trains without at least one Fa... (more)

Well-worn Louisville & Nashville U30C 1537, in Family Lines paint, leads a better-looking pair of SD40-2’s through Barbourville, Kentucky. They are pulling a coal drag toward Corbin on the line ... (more)