Model Railroading > Santa Fe U30CG project (HO) - Trainorders.com
This is a project that I have been working on for some time. 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. These lasted until about 1980. They carried all three paint
Nostalgia & History > Ugly-cute in red and silver - Trainorders.com
The Southern California Railway Museum has some unattributed medium format transparencies of year-old Santa Fe U30CG 405 backing onto a San Diegan at San Diego, CA in October 1968. 1) A rare rear-uncoupled view illustrates one peculiar feature of the red and silver passenger scheme as applied to the U30CG's - the solid red rear end.
Nostalgia & History > Santa Fe U30CG 8003 in KC - Trainorders.com
Santa Fe U30CG 8003 in KC Author: oyw Here's a scan from an old 127 negative taken in 1973 while walking through Santa Fe's Argentine yard, prior to being lectured by the special agent but allowed to remain.
Nostalgia & History > ATSF U30CG and U28CG Question
Pages 121 and 122 of Steve Goen's Santa Fe in the Lone Star State have photos of U28CG's on passenger trains in Texas in September 1969, with the comment that after seven months of testing, the big GE's had been exonerated. Maybe, but if so, there must have at least been a lingering stigma.
Nostalgia & History > mundo: U30CG in San Diegan service
- Santa Fe 1940-1971 in Color V.4 p.120, U30CG 8005 leading the westbound Super Chief at Mission Tower, Los Angeles, CA, 12/28/70. - Santa Fe Through Passenger Service in Color v.2 p.79-80, U30CG 8001 leading the eastbound Tulsan at Kansas City, MO, June 1970.
Photos of Santa Fe U-boats, a U25B, 3 U28CGs, and a U30CG
These are all scans from Tom Hoffmann's slides in Rick Burn's collection. 1. AT&SF U25B 1606, built in May 1962 and traded to GE in Feburary 1979, seen here in Gainsville, TX in August 1967. 2. AT&SF U28CG 350 at Clovis, NM in November 1967. 3. A
Santa Fe U30CG units in Denver - Trainorders.com
Sep 7, 2020 · In the aftermath of the wreck, Santa Fe did test runs with FP45's 104 and 106 pulling a similar trainset on March 3, 1969 and with U28CG's 359 and 354 on March 4. The U30CG's were not tested, but they had the same trucks as the U28's (and anecdotally rode horribly at passenger speeds), so when Santa Fe temporarily withdrew the U28's from ...
Santa Fe Warbonnets at McCook in '71 - Trainorders.com
Re: Santa Fe Warbonnets at McCook in '71 Author: 3rdswitch Both the U30CG's and U28CG's were used on the Super C in the late 60's/early '70's, and, the U28CG's were used for a short while on the LA to San Diego San Diegan's.
Nostalgia & History > ATSF FP45 light package - Trainorders.com
All of Santa Fe's second generation passenger units (GE U28CG and U30CG plus the EMD FP45) came with a set of red/white gyralights in addition to a twin sealed-beam fixed headlight, and they initially retained that combination when they were transferred to freight duties and repainted blue and yellow.
Nostalgia & History > Rare Birds - Santa Fe's U30CG's
Built at Santa Fe's behest in the winter of 1967, U30CG's 400-405 drew regular assignments in passenger train service and the "Super C" power pool. Then, a derailment on a passenger train (with subsequent investigational testing by the Santa Fe), resulted in them being permanently banished (along with the U28CG's) to freight service around 1970.