Fremont, NE is where the C&NW mainline from Chicago joined the UP mainline from Omaha. C&NW freights came in and UP power was added to the front to continue west. Vise versa for Eastbound trains. ... (more)

Fresh painted SPV 2408 at Benson, AZ.

Running Around. New Hope Railroad GP-30 no. 2198 is seen changing ends on the railroad's excursion train at New Hope Station.

Conrail, CR GP30's 2182-2224-E44's 4432-4406, with N12-P3, on the NEC at Morrisville, Pennsylvania. February 19, 1978. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Fresh out of the Decatur N&W shops is newly painted former NKP GP-30 N&W 2904. The short hood mounted bell and headlight easily identifies this unit as former NKP heritage. The Pevler Blue paint i... (more)

Ex-Reading Lines, sitting on the Altoona deadline.

Baltimore & Ohio GP30 No. 6900 and Chesapeake & Ohio GP35 No. 3526 sit at B&OCT’s Barr Yard in Riverdale, Illinois, on August 10, 1986.

INER 2185 leads its train into Hillsdale, Michigan as it curves into their yard.

A westbound Washington Eastern Railroad tie train in Reardan, WA on its way to Davenport, WA.

BNSF 2746 started life in 1964 as a GP35 for the Southern Pacific. It later operated for the Burlington Northern and now runs for the BNSF as a GP39E. 55 years old and still making bank.

Almost like the “good old days”
Even after Union Pacific’s merger of Southern Pacific, for several years, locomotives for the West local out of Denver on the former Rio Grande Mof... (more)

Still looks like a GP30
BNSF EMD GP39-2 No. 2744 still carries the classic lines of an early 1960s-built GP30, minus the clutter on the roof, as it switches Greybull yard after arriving ... (more)

My first time in America, I expected to find it in the UP paint scheme, but that month the re painting work had begun.

SSW GP30 754 original numbers 750-759, they were renumbered to 5000-5009.

Even after Union Pacific’s merger of Southern Pacific, for several years, locomotives for the West local out of Denver on the Moffat Tunnel route was a pair of Rio Grande GP30s. They ran west on... (more)