A trio of now extinct locomotives pull NS 146 as the 3 man crew prepares to switch the Logansport Yard probably in October of 1989.

LS&I's duo of C30-7s leads 3 Tilden out of the yard at Eagle Mills. One of the C30-7s has since suffered a major mechanical failure and was retired.

While it never worked under the FerroMex banner, it certainly got the paint for it.

A trio of BN C30-7s lead coal loads through Lin Scott, NE on a November afternoon. Already becoming old school, the C30-7s had dominated the coal routes for years but were inexorably giving way to... (more)

Still to this day, my dad says the ex-Southern SD40-2 at the rear of the consist was the most impressive thing he's heard in his entire railfan career. Photo credit William H. Thomas.

An unlikely C30-7/T6 combination idles in the Norfolk & Western engine servicing area at Lamberts Point, Virginia.

The roundhouse at Cheyenne hosts coal train power of the day - C30-7s and a U30C on the side. Most coal traffic came out of the Hanna, WY basin at the time as there were several mines in the vicin... (more)

Remote Wendover Canyon is host to yet another coal train, led by Burlington Northern GE C30-7 No. 5036, rolling along the North Platte River between Wendover and Cassa, Wyoming, on the afternoon o... (more)

Burlington Northern GE C30-7 No. 5017 leads an eastbound coal train out of Tamora, Nebraska, on the bright morning of July 1, 1989. Spending most of their lives hauling coal as intended, BN amasse... (more)

Eastbound empty auto racks return to the factories for more cars to serve the west coast market. The Santa Fe train is entering Abo Canyon, New Mexico.

A quartet of Burlington Northern GE C30-7s, along with a lone EMD SD40-2, power a coal empty northward toward Alliance at East Bonner, Nebraska, on July 25, 1992.

C30-7 Ex Ferromex

The 5586 was my "chaser" for the afternoon on this Montana summer day. Blessed with a train at the semaphores near St. Regis, I followed this westbound toward another blade setting near ... (more)