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GE U30CG
🇺🇸 United States ·built by General Electric· from 1967· US passenger diesel locomotive
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. The Tulsan 1969: Audio-Visual Designs, Earlton, NY· Public domain
what is it?
The GE U30CG was a passenger-hauling diesel-electric locomotive built by GE Transportation Systems. It was a passenger variant of GE's U30C design purchased by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. ATSF had purchased ten U28CG locomotives in 1966, and while these locomotives were satisfactory operationally, the railroad felt that their utilitarian appearance was unsuitable for its passenger trains.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 59 years ago, in 1967.
diesel locomotive: A diesel engine on board drives the wheels, usually through a generator (diesel-electric).
spec sheet
- built
- 1967
- retired
- 1980
- status
- retired
- number built
- 6
- kind
- Diesel-electric
- traction
- diesel
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- General Electric
- operators
- Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- Co'Co'
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5513308, Wikipedia: GE U30CG (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.