Often the 195/196 trains would be yarded and the power used for yard switching for the duration. A nice pair graced the 195 this day and tied up on the lead that led to the old roundhouse.
A rare look at one of SOO's U30Cs (#800) in Minneapolis, June 1975.
A pair of U30Cs lead a northbound empy hopper train through Huntdale, NC on the Blue Ridge Subdivision. This scene is dominated by DPU-equipped GEVO units in the modern era.
Talk about a grizzled veteran! That there was still a U30C in eagle paint by this time was uncommon in itself. Though it was not the best of light, got with my buds and "convinced" them to stop ... (more)
Several Tehachapi frieght pool power sets are seen in the fuel tracks passing the time.
contractor work train on Santa Fe Lee Ranch Sub at East Baca, NM
L&N U30C 1538 leading a train at Boody (St. Paul), VA.
ROCK ISLAND Recollections. RI 4584 is less than two months old in this photo at HB&T's Milby St. diesel facility in Houston. RI's 18 U30Cs 4582-4599 were delivered October-December 1... (more)
Summertime in south Texas finds the normal slight haze in the air meeting one of the hordes of Smithers Lake (HL&P) coal trains that kept the Santa Fe alive. This stretch is on a slight downhill ... (more)
Rock Island U30C basking in the morning sun outside of the Silvis shops. Rock Island purchased 18 of these beasts in 1973.
A "Extra Chatsworth" train, which ran from Taylor Yard in LA to the Gemco yard in the San Fernando Valley, seen approaching the east switch of Hewitt siding at the Tujunga street crossing
The 3-Yard passes L540 where the LS&I and CN split at Eagle Mills Jct.
The 3 Tilden brings in a load of ore from the mines and pulls around the wye and approaches M-35.
They had been sitting there a long time.
Rock Island U30C 4587 heads the line of a dozen dead and forlorn U-boats waiting their final fate on a siding at Silvis, Illinois on March 26, 1989.