Kansas City Southern Historical Society - KCS Locomotives - GP30's
EMD General Purpose Locomotives (GP30's) - 4 wheels per truck
Pictures of KCS 4113
Pictures of KCS 4113, Model: GP30. Title: KCS West Yard : Description: An eclectic assortment of locomotives were gathered around the Kansas City Southern diesel shop at WEST YARD, just outside of New Orleans.From left to right, there were F7A slug 4060 with GP40-2 797 and GP40's 753 and 771; SD60's 715 with the 722; GP30 4113 with two siblings, and an unidentified switch engine in the shop.
Pictures of KCS 4100 - rrpicturearchives.net
A crewman on a southbound Kansas City Southern train was enjoying the cool, clear sunshine as his train approached the railroad’s WEST YARD, just outside of New Orleans. The 4100 was the railroad’s first GP30, while the 636 was its last SD40. Date approximate.
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Kansas City Southern Photographic Roster, Locomotive Model: GP30
EMD GP30 - Wikipedia
The EMD GP30 is a 2,250 hp (1,680 kW) four-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division of La Grange, Illinois between July 1961 and November 1963. [2] A total of 948 units were built for railroads in the United States and Canada (2 only), including 40 cabless B units for the Union Pacific Railroad .
Kansas City Southern Railway: " Route Of The Southern Belle
Oct 12, 2024 · It had purchased new locomotives beginning in the mid-1960s to improve operations and handle the heavier freight trains of the era; notably SD40's, SD40-2's, GP30's, and GP40-2's (road-switchers which replaced older models like the F3 and F7 cab units).
Atlas O Premier GP30 Locomotive
Advertised by EMD as a combination “high speed and heavy drag” locomotive, the GP30 immediately took over from first generation diesels as premier mainline freight power. Although bumped to lesser service by more powerful engines later in life, many served over four decades, considerably longer than the expected service life of a diesel.
Meridian Speedway Blog - THE MERIDIAN SPEEDWAY
Sep 7, 2015 · The KCS bought 20 GP30s during 1962-63, and the last of these were taken out of service in 1990. In their final years of operation, six of these were assigned to the diesel shop in New Orleans. Three were used on the nightly turn to Baton Rouge, one each was used at Norco and Gramercy, and one was kept as a spare.
Pictures of KCS 4103
Here is recently-repainted 4103 in the joint KCS-SLSF yard in Hope, Arkansas, just south of the crossing with the Missouri Pacific's main line between Little Rock and Texarkana. This GP30-F7B-GP30 set of power had arrived from Shreveport on train No. …
KCS "Ghosts" - The Diesel Shop
Carbodies and cabs were done in solid white, with a gold frame stripe and a large red "KCS" on the long hood. This "ghostly" attire was replaced several years later by battleship grey with gold-nose chevrons; it was the last of the economy-driven schemes, prior to KCS's retro- looking "Belle" colors of five decades earlier.
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