The "Tip Up's" entry into the great Bicentennial paint job field was this beauty.
TP&W placed an order with EMD for one lone GP30. This GP30 was built in September 1963 and was assigned TP&W #700. John C. Benson-Roger Lalonde Collection.
The TP&W has delivered interchange freight to the AT&SF at Ft. Madison, Iowa and its four units (2 EMD, 2 Alco) are ready to return to home rails at Lomax, Ill. March 12, 1969.
On the last day of 1983 and last day of the original Toledo, Peoria & Western’s existence, TP&W’s only GP30 No. 700 sits at the railroad’s locomotive facility at East Peoria, Illinois. On Ja... (more)
A BOB LEHMAN PHOTO. Departing westbound with the usual "Dukes mixture"* of power this westbound train appears to have the light and IT will have to wait. Days long done. *Does anybo... (more)
Tom Golden photo.
How about this setting for a GP30?
A Tipup passenger extra nears Keokuk.
TPW 700 looks sharp.
TPW passenger extra clatters across the BN diamond at Bushnell.
