With a wave from the fireman, UP 2904 rolls through Cozad, NE.

Conrail’s Collinwood shops are hosting the usual assortment of CR power, with some visitors, too. The U30C is a Detroit Edison unit, while the four GP38-2’s belong to the Cleveland Electric Il... (more)

Three builders are represented in this consist with a filthy GE U30C, an ex RDG EMD GP39-2, and a very clean Alco C628 trailing.

Back in the early 1970s Missouri Pacific acquired 35 3000-hp U30C’s for service in the southern Illinois coal fields and worked them hard, giving them little attention and less maintenance. On ... (more)

Detroit Edison bought a fleet of U30C’s and SD40’s to ensure that Penn Central would not delay coal shipments to their electric generating stations due to unavailable or unreliable power. Here... (more)

SOO struggled with seasonal power shortages and occasionally 912 would be called out of Gladstone with a singe unit or lose a unit to a 911 that was having power problems. Normally an extra would ... (more)

UP train using KCT trackage rights Sheffield interlocking

Burlington Northern GE U30C No. 5908 leads an eastbound coal train at Broken Bow, Nebraska, on July 19, 1985.

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.