GE C30-7, getting out of the most difficult tunnel in Brazil.

Visiting BN power takes an empty unit coal train north on the joint MP/SSW river line.

A loaded Burlington Northern coal train holds down the siding at Berea, Nebraska, on the morning of July 24, 1992. Lead locomotive GE C30-7 No. 5057 has been repainted in BN’s “whiteface” pa... (more)

Conrail train APB-1 has arrived in Portland, Pennsylvania, and the power is positioned to allow the crew to visit the Portland Diner. When first delivered, Conrail’s ten C30-7’s had stars unde... (more)

After traffic south of Palmer Lake has cleared, a southbound Santa Fe manifest passes through the “sag” between Spruce and Palmer Lake, Colorado.

On a beautiful April day on Colorado’s Joint Line, a southbound Santa Fe manifest has conveniently stopped for clearance next to the sign identifying the location as Spruce.

BN power pulling coal empties waits as one of MP's coal service SD40-2s leads four more SD40-2s and a loaded coal train. I spent a lot of time in southeast Kansas in the 1980s, and saw lots of PR... (more)

The Clouds Giveth, and the Clouds Taketh Away

A morning spent on Union Pacific’s line over Sherman Hill at Dale Junction, Wyoming included a blue sky full of puffy white clouds. ... (more)

Eastbound Union Pacific tonnage rolls through Dale Junction, Wyoming. Run-through Norfolk & Western power includes a breed seldom seen in these parts – a high hood SD45.

The first of 10 Conrail GE C30-7's built.

Lake Superior & Ishpeming’s 3 Tilden job heads west through Empire Junction with a pair of classic C30-7s.

Kind of out in the middle of nowhere, loads hold for empties to clear in the early days on the PRB boom.

Handling the "7 Weigher" today is one of the LS&I's two sets of former BN GE's. C30-7's #'s 3074 and 3073 arrive at Partridge Junction on CN's Marquette Range Subdivision to drop off a t... (more)

After bringing in a train of ore loads from the Tilden Mine, a 3 Tilden crew departs Eagle Mills, MI with a train consisting of three covered hoppers and two tank cars. The cars are bound for the ... (more)

LS&I 3074 leads 3 Tilden South into Negaunee.