1. ATSF GE U23B 6303 built July 1970, retired June 1983 to GE for C30-7 series, and seen in Chicago, IL July 21, 1970. Unknown photographer, Iowa Chapter NRHS collection 2. ATSF GE U23B 6339 built Jan. 1971, retired June 1983 to GE for C30-7 …

"Mundo" in the subject line means the following photo was taken by Trainorders.com user mundo. For about 6 months from September 1968 until February 1969, Santa Fe assigned their big six-axle GE passenger locomotives, ten hood …

The passenger GE's only lasted 13-14 years on Santa Fe, but the B36-7's would only last 10 before going back to GE! > They ALL wore their "as delivered" > "Red and Silver Warbonnet", "Blue and Yellow Pin > Stripe" and "Yellowbonnet" schemes. From what I can find, only two U30CG's got the pin stripe blue and yellow scheme, 8000 and 8004.

7. ATSF GE U30CG 8005 built Dec. 1967 as 405, renumbered 8005 April 1970, retired to GE 1980, and seen in E. Galesburg, IL Dec. 10, 1977. Larry Anglund photo For all the time I spent at Joliet Union Depot, I can't remember seeing one of these. 8.

AT&SF U30CG 401, traded to GE in 1980, with Train 15, the Texas Chief, Oklahoma City, January 1, 1968. As I said, these are Tom Hoffmann photos in Rick Burn's collection.

In any case, an unidentified photographer caught ATSF U28CG 356, U30CG 405, and blue and yellow F45 1918 on eastbound pigs waiting just shy of the home signal at the SP crossing at Colton, CA on a June-gloomy morning in 1969 as a set of …

The U30CG was produced in brass by Hallmark and much later by Overland. Santa Fe had six of these originally for passenger service and then they moved to freight service.

The U30CG's seldom fell victim to the silver overspray often seen above the stepwells on the red and silver FP45's. One wonders if the painters only took the time to retouch the silver on the power of the Super Chief/El Capitan, which the big GE's almost never pulled even when new. Edited 1 time (s). Last edit at 07/19/24 23:20 by Evan_Werkema.

A few miles south of Temple Tx on the Santa Fe Southern Division was this freight with a surprise in the consist - ex passenger GE U30CG #8002. I quickly took a couple of grab shots since I didn't see these units very often. They would all be off the roster by 1980.

I was looking through the GE models in a Santa Fe locomotive folio recently and noticed some additional letters accompanying the 7FDL-16 usually a letter and a number. Can anyone tell me what these additional characters refer to? U25B: 7FDL-16 A2 U23B and U23C: 7FDL-12 C4 U30CG: 7FDL-16 D3 U33C: 7FDL-16 E9 U36C (8736-8762): 7FDL-16 F3 SF30C ...