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SOU 2598
Title:  SOU 2598
Description:  Two Southern freights are ready to leave out of the north end of Danville Yard. Southern 2598 is believed extant as Sprouse Creek (coal) Processing 2598 at Lobata, WV. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  7/1/1977  Upload Date: 6/15/2009 11:05:50 AM
Location:  Danville, KY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  SOU 2598(GP30) SOU 3122(SD45)
Views:  1686   Comments: 5
SOU 2629
Title:  SOU 2629
Description:  High hood Southern GP30s head pouth at Junction City. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1978  Upload Date: 9/13/2009 7:00:43 PM
Location:  Junction City, KY
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  SOU 2629(GP30)
Views:  742   Comments: 2
N&W 2900
Title:  N&W 2900
Description:  The bell mounted in the notch on the nose marks N&W 2900 as an ex-NKP unit, NKP 900. Note also the lack of dynamic brakes and the small fuel tank. She would later become NS 2900. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1974  Upload Date: 4/24/2009 12:17:26 PM
Location:  Bellevue, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  NW 2900(GP30)
Views:  1611   Comments: 1
WAMX 3504
Title:  WAMX 3504
Description:  Assigned to the former UP Rupert-Bliss North Side Branch.
Photo Date:  4/21/2000  Upload Date: 1/8/2007 4:51:31 PM
Location:  Wendell, ID
Author:  Brian Woodruff
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Locomotives:  WAMX 3504(GP35R) WAMX 3003(GP30)
Views:  1345   Comments: 0
D&RGW 3004
Title:  D&RGW 3004
Description:  Eastbound hopper train behind a trio of then 27-year-old GP30s. Rio Grande 3004 was later CVR 3004, is extant in 2021 as TPLX 2007.
Photo Date:  7/14/1989  Upload Date: 2/7/2006 9:47:23 PM
Location:  Springville, UT
Author:  Jeff Van Cleve
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Locomotives:  DRGW 3004(GP30)
Views:  1424   Comments: 2
CVR 3004
Title:  CVR 3004
Description:  Cimarron Valley 3004 is ex-D&RGW, same number.
Photo Date:  6/11/2015  Upload Date: 7/13/2015 9:21:47 PM
Location:  Satanta, KS
Author:  Jeff Van Cleve
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Locomotives:  CVR 3004(GP30)
Views:  561   Comments: 0
IARR 3004
Title:  IARR 3004
Description:  The sole motive power of the Iowa River RR, the 3004 exists to switch an ethanol plant in Ackley, IA. She is ex-CFNR 3004, exx-ARZC 3004, exxx-OHCR 4236, exxxx CSXT 4236, nee-B&O 6914.
Photo Date:  5/18/2016  Upload Date: 5/18/2016 9:56:54 PM
Location:  Ackley, IA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  IARR 3004(GP30)
Views:  524   Comments: 2
WAMX 3006
Title:  WAMX 3006
Description:  Eastern Idaho/WAMX 3006 is ex-CR 2174, exx-RDG 3606, nee-RDG 5506.
Photo Date:  4/21/2000  Upload Date: 4/10/2020 12:01:58 PM
Location:  Twin Falls, ID
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  WAMX 3006(GP30)
Views:  505   Comments: 0
D&RGW 3014
Title:  D&RGW 3014
Description:  Rio Grande GP30 3014 handles a work train near Sedalia, CO on the joint line. She was later CVR 3014. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1981  Upload Date: 12/7/2009 7:56:02 PM
Location:  Sedalia, CO
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  DRGW 3014(GP30)
Views:  1545   Comments: 5
C&O 3015
Title:  C&O 3015
Description:  A westbound freight on C&O's Cincinnati to Chicago line pounds the diamond with B&O's Indianapolis line at Cottage Grove. C&O 3015 as later CSXT 4210. Respondek's Indiana Eastern RR operates this C&O trackage now. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1977  Upload Date: 6/14/2009 11:59:04 AM
Location:  Cottage Grove, IN
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  CO 3015(GP30)
Views:  1079   Comments: 503316481
C&O 3023
Title:  C&O 3023
Description:  A C&O eastbound freight pulls past State Line Tower. GP30s were C&O's first second generation diesels. All were delivered with yellow noses and the roadname spelled out in Futura lettering. Only three received this later simplified "merger" paint scheme. The 3023 would go on to become CSXT 4217, OHCR 4217, and ARZC 3002. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  8/22/1971  Upload Date: 9/4/2015 9:42:36 PM
Location:  Hammond, IN
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  CO 3023(GP30)
Views:  842   Comments: 2
SP 7323
Title:  SP 7323
Description:  Unusual appearance of a Rio Grande GP30 in the helper set for the BKDOL, usually the exclusive domain of six-axle units. SP 7323 was later IC&E 6433. D&RGW 3024 was later Cimarron Valley 3024. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  9/1/1988  Upload Date: 8/12/2010 9:51:37 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  SP 7323(SD40R) DRGW 3024(GP30)
Views:  1241   Comments: 1
RILX 3024
Title:  RILX 3024
Description:  RILX 3024 is ex-CVR 3024, nee-D&RGW 3024.
Photo Date:  4/10/2022  Upload Date: 4/11/2022 11:38:44 AM
Location:  Sumner, MS
Author:  Jeff Van Cleve
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Locomotives:  RILX 3024(GP30)
Views:  709   Comments: 0
C&O 3032
Title:  C&O 3032
Description:  At the C&O's northern outpost. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  8/28/1978  Upload Date: 1/27/2006 12:46:08 PM
Location:  Petoskey, MI
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  CO 3032(GP30)
Views:  7255   Comments: 3
C&O 3037
Title:  C&O 3037
Description:  A pair lf C&O GP30s switch some tank cars at Petoskey.
Photo Date:  8/28/1978  Upload Date: 7/16/2007 10:11:44 AM
Location:  Petoskey, MI
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CO 3037(GP30)
Views:  1778   Comments: 0
C&O 3046
Title:  C&O 3046
Description:  Northbound at Fostoria; the former NYC trackage and depot are at right. C&O 3046 would later be CSXT 4233. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  1/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/1/2009 7:00:57 PM
Location:  Fostoria, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  CO 3046(GP30)
Views:  1802   Comments: 1
AT&SF 3384
Title:  AT&SF 3384
Description:  Santa Fe's Bakersfield roundhouse. Date of phot` approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1982  Upload Date: 1/14/2009 6:24:21 PM
Location:  Bakersfield, CA
Author:  Laurelynn Brooks
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Locomotives:  ATSF 3384(GP35) ATSF 3202(GP30)
Views:  2333   Comments: 0
wT&SF 3207
Title:  wT&SF 3207
Description:  A Santa Fe eastbound pulls out of the eastward siding at McCook and crosses the IHB. The trailing CN and C&NW units were leased to get Santa Fe through a power shortage in late 1977. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1977  Upload Date: 8/10/2009 4:18:03 PM
Location:  McCook, IL
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 3207(GP30)
Views:  857   Comments: 0
ATSF 3219
Title:  ATSF 3219
Description:  Rear end helpers for extra dynamic braking on this heavy westbound descending via the north track. ATSF 3219 would be rebuilt to GP30u ATSF 2719, later became BNSF 2419. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  11/1/1982  Upload Date: 12/28/2009 4:32:31 PM
Location:  Cajon Summit, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  ATSF 3219(GP30)
Views:  1280   Comments: 4
ATSF 3239
Title:  ATSF 3239
Description:  A GP30 and an SD39 team up on eastbound tonnage between Pueblo and La Junta near Fowler, CO. Both units survived long enough to get BNSF numbers, becoming BNSF 2439 and 6203, respectively.
Photo Date:  3/21/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2011 5:00:43 PM
Location:  Fowler, CO
Author:  Jeff Van Cleve
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Locomotives:  ATSF 3239(GP30) ATSF 4001(SD39)
Views:  2293   Comments: 1
ATSF 3278
Title:  ATSF 3278
Description:  Three GP30s, two GP35s and a GP50 climb through Woodford on the main with an eastbound manifest. ATSF 3278 was rebuilt 11/73 to GP30u ATSF 2778, later became BNSF 2476. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1983  Upload Date: 1/6/2010 3:27:25 PM
Location:  Woodford, CA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  ATSF 3278(GP30)
Views:  1132   Comments: 3
RDG 3600
Title:  RDG 3600
Description:  Reading's original GP30 at Allentown. I believe this was the first "production" GP30 built, following the "GP22" demonstrator. Later Conrail 2168.
Photo Date:  2/14/1973  Upload Date: 12/13/2010 7:49:18 PM
Location:  Allentown, PA
Author:  David LeGloahec
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Locomotives:  RDG 3600(GP30)
Views:  1491   Comments: 1
RDG 3601
Title:  RDG 3601
Description:  Shown here northbound on the Reading belt line at Lebanon Valley Jct., RDG 3601 was originally numbered 5501, and later became CR 2169. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  3/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/5/2008 6:58:14 PM
Location:  Reading, PA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
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Locomotives:  RDG 3601(GP30)
Views:  975   Comments: 2
RDG 3601
Title:  RDG 3601
Description:  Reading freight enters Allentown Yard at R tower. RDG 3601 was later Conrail 2169.
Photo Date:  2/14/1973  Upload Date: 12/13/2010 9:11:42 PM
Location:  Allentown, PA
Author:  Stephen J. Benkovitz
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Locomotives:  RDG 3601(GP30)
Views:  1165   Comments: 0
RDG 3601
Title:  RDG 3601
Description:  Westbound freight behind a GP30/35/35 combination at the Reading Outer Depot.
Photo Date:  10/27/1974  Upload Date: 1/26/2009 7:45:48 PM
Location:  Reading, PA
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
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Locomotives:  RDG 3601(GP30)
Views:  814   Comments: 1
RDG 3609
Title:  RDG 3609
Description:  Caboose hop on the Port Reading branch. RDG 3609 was originally RDG 5509, later became CR 2117. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  2/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/14/2021 5:35:34 PM
Location:  Bound Brook, NJ
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RDG 3609(GP30)
Views:  334   Comments: 0
RDG 3610
Title:  RDG 3610
Description:  Reading 3610 passes R tower at the west end of the yard. She was later Conrail 2178, and was scrapped at Hollidaysburg 6/17/92.
Photo Date:  4/1/1973  Upload Date: 1/13/2009 3:52:52 PM
Location:  Allentown, PA
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RDG 3610(GP30)
Views:  904   Comments: 0
KCS 4105
Title:  KCS 4105
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/28/1977  Upload Date: 1/16/2006 3:20:51 PM
Location:  DeQueen, AR
Author:  Vincent J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  KCS 4105(GP30)
Views:  1200   Comments: 0
SW 4227
Title:  SW 4227
Description:  Southwestern GP30 4227 is ex-CSXT 4227, nee-C&O 3037.
Photo Date:  6/11/2015  Upload Date: 7/13/2015 9:37:25 PM
Location:  Satanta, KS
Author:  Jeff Van Cleve
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 4227(GP30)
Views:  434   Comments: 0
EIRR 4260
Title:  EIRR 4260
Description:  Contender for the title of World's Ugliest GP30 is Eastern Idaho 4260, ex-CSXT 4260, nee-B&O 6955.
Photo Date:  4/21/2000  Upload Date: 4/10/2020 12:01:06 PM
Location:  Jerome, ID
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  EIRR 4260(GP30)
Views:  679   Comments: 2
CP 5000
Title:  CP 5000
Description:  One of only two GP30s in Canada.
Photo Date:  8/21/1974  Upload Date: 1/13/2006 9:07:23 PM
Location:  Quebec City, QC
Author:  Stephen J. Benkovitz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CP 5000(GP30)
Views:  1933   Comments: 1
SCOX 5001
Title:  SCOX 5001
Description:  Scoular Grain uses this GP30 to switch their elevator at Fremont. She's ex-CP 5001, nee-CP 8201, one of only two GP30s built for a Canadian railway.
Photo Date:  8/13/2017  Upload Date: 8/15/2017 8:19:48 AM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Jeff Van Cleve
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SCOX 5001(GP30)
Views:  892   Comments: 1
SCOX 5001
Title:  SCOX 5001
Description:  SCOX 5001 is ex-CP 5001, nee-CP 8201, one of only two GP30s built in Canada. Lettered "Seth's Toy" she appears to be OOS at the Scoular Elevator in Fremont.
Photo Date:  6/23/2024  Upload Date: 6/28/2024 1:37:57 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Jeff Van Cleve
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SCOX 5001(GP30)
Views:  272   Comments: 0
SP 5017
Title:  SP 5017
Description:  SP owned just 8 GP30s. Here are two of them with a GP35 on a southbound Cotton Belt train. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1972  Upload Date: 12/9/2008 12:18:24 PM
Location:  Cahokia, IL
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 5017(GP30)
Views:  2188   Comments: 7
B&O 6901
Title:  B&O 6901
Description:  Taken from Center Street viaduct.
Photo Date:  2/16/1973  Upload Date: 9/12/2006 4:25:49 PM
Location:  Campbell, OH
Author:  John Simon
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 6901(GP30)
Views:  1413   Comments: 0
B&O 6908
Title:  B&O 6908
Description:  The east local gets underway out of Oxford with a sizeable train. The second unit is one of the 5900-series C&O GP9s transferred to WM. B&O 6908 was later CSXT 4111, rebuilt to slug CSXT 2248. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1977  Upload Date: 6/9/2009 3:28:23 PM
Location:  Oxford, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 6908(GP30)
Views:  845   Comments: 0
B&O 6912
Title:  B&O 6912
Description:  Tonnage headed for E'port is led by B&O GP30 6912, and passes the local working in the background with a N&W F-unit. SJB catches the action at left. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1970  Upload Date: 2/14/2021 5:33:48 PM
Location:  Bound Brook, NJ
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 6912(GP30)
Views:  418   Comments: 0
B&O 6914
Title:  B&O 6914
Description:  Photographed at Jersey Central's Communipaw engine facility, B&O 6914 would later become CSXT 4236, OHCR 4236, ARZC 3004, CFNR 3004, IARR 3004. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  6/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/28/2021 6:46:50 PM
Location:  Jersey City, NJ
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 3730(GP40) BO 6914(GP30)
Views:  611   Comments: 0
B&O 6915
Title:  B&O 6915
Description:  B&O GP30 6915, with wooden caboose C-1902 right up front behind the power. The 6915 was later rebuilt to CSXT road slug 2211. Ashland Railway runs here now. Date approximate.
Photo Date:  4/1/1973  Upload Date: 7/23/2006 9:56:55 PM
Location:  Springmill, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BO 6915(GP30)
Views:  2133   Comments: 2
WM 3796
Title:  WM 3796
Description:  Power congregates at the small B&O engine facility in Lima. WM 3796 looks to need a new numberboard. She was later CSXT 6571, then rebuilt to CSXT slug 2339. B&O 4015 would later be CSXT 6590, rebuilt to MARC GP40WH-2 51. And B&O 6922 became CSXT 4118, rebuilt to CSXT slug 2233. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  9/1/1976  Upload Date: 6/5/2009 8:46:37 AM
Location:  Lima, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  WM 3796(GP40) BO 4015(GP40) BO 6922(GP30)
Views:  1851   Comments: 0
B&O 6928
Title:  B&O 6928
Description:  B&O 6928 later became CSXT 4244, was scrapped at Pielet Bros. Note the silver trucks on the trailing unit, SD35 7411. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  9/1/1974  Upload Date: 3/27/2009 5:37:12 PM
Location:  Lima, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 6928(GP30)
Views:  1112   Comments: 1
B&O 6930
Title:  B&O 6930
Description:  B&O 6930 leads a westbound freight, about to cross the C&O and EL at State Line Junction. She was later CSXT 4121, rebuilt to road slug CSXT 2283. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  8/22/1971  Upload Date: 9/4/2015 9:30:44 PM
Location:  Hammond, IN
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 6930(GP30)
Views:  608   Comments: 0
B&O 6939
Title:  B&O 6939
Description:  B&O 6939 would later become CSXT 4251. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  1/1/1977  Upload Date: 6/7/2009 3:53:54 PM
Location:  Lima, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 6939(GP30)
Views:  723   Comments: 1
B&O 6941
Title:  B&O 6941
Description:  Chessie GP30 6941 was later Power Mountain Coal @2598 at Summersville, WV.
Photo Date:  7/7/1983  Upload Date: 9/4/2005 6:28:35 PM
Location:  S. philadelphia, PA
Author:  Jeff Van Cleve
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 6941(GP30)
Views:  960   Comments: 0
C&O 5929
Title:  C&O 5929
Description:  Southbound auto racks on the C&O, about to make the turn at F tower and head east on the B&O. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1974  Upload Date: 2/16/2009 8:28:39 AM
Location:  Fostoria, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CO 5929(GP9) BO 6950(GP30)
Views:  1532   Comments: 0
B&O 6958
Title:  B&O 6958
Description:  B&O 6958, leading this eastbound about to duck under the former Pennsy at Ravenna, was later CSXT 4129, then rebuilt to slug CSXT 2268. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1974  Upload Date: 3/27/2009 7:37:02 PM
Location:  Ravenna, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 6958(GP30)
Views:  1219   Comments: 0
B&O 6963
Title:  B&O 6963
Description:  B&O 6963 became CSXT 4264, was later scrapped at Pielet Bros. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  9/1/1976  Upload Date: 6/5/2009 9:37:10 AM
Location:  Lima, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 6963(GP30)
Views:  795   Comments: 0
B&O 4133
Title:  B&O 4133
Description:  Westbound freight on B&O's Indianapolis line just west of the C&O diamond at Cottage Grove. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1976  Upload Date: 8/18/2007 7:38:13 PM
Location:  Cottage Grove, IN
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BO 4133(GP40-2) SSW 6681(GP35) BO 6971(GP30)
Views:  1680   Comments: 1


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