The GE U30C is a six-axle locomotive built by General Electric from 1966 to 1976. With 600 units sold, the U30C proved to be a viable alternative for customers who were unable to purchase …

Jan 1, 2025 · The U30C was General Electric's first high-horsepower, six-motored road-switcher. Thanks to new advancements in AC-DC transmission systems, GE was finally able to catalog …

These six-axle, 3000 horsepower locomotives were numbered 6300 through 6304. Delivered in the 1960s yellow and green scheme, these units were the first to carry the "Bee Line Service" …

Built by General Electric between 1966 and 1976, the six-axle, 3000-h.p. U30C locomotive was General Electric’s alternative to EMD’s SD40 series. In that ten year time frame, GE built 600 …

Last produced in 1991, the GE U30C from Kato is being reworked to modern specification, with a redesigned DCC friendly mechanism and a new detailed underframe which allows the …

Most, if not all, of the U30Cs were retrofitted with Gyralites by the D&H. The electrical prints for the U30Cs were modified with the Gyralite in 1971, and the modifications were carried out on …

Mar 31, 2022 · In 1977, a combination of significant updates led to the creation of the "1977 Series" or Dash-7 series of locomotives, and the U30C and U36C were respectively replaced …

Conrail inherited 10 U30C's from the Penn Central and the Reading Company. The 3,000hp U30C's were assigned CR series 6535-6539 and 6579-6583.

The GE U30C is a six-axle locomotive built by General Electric from 1966 to 1976. With 600 units sold, the U30C proved to be a viable alternative for customers who were unable to purchase …

With a production span from January 1967 to September 1976, and sales of 592 U30Cs (plus six U30CG passenger versions), the U30C was by far the most successful of GE’s U-Boats.