GE U30C

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GE U30C

BN 5383 operating at the Illinois Railway Museum.
Power type	Diesel-electric
Builder	GE Transportation Systems
Model	U30C
Build date	November 1966 – October 1976
Total production	600
AAR wheel arr.	C-C
Gauge	4 ft 8½ in (1,435 mm)
Prime mover	GE FDL-16
Power output	3000 hp 2240 kW)
Locale	North America
Disposition	most scrapped, some preserved

General Electric's U30C was at one time the company's most successful six-axle locomotive, with 600 units being sold over a production run spanning more than nine and a half years. This locomotive model is capable of producing 3000 horsepower. The U30C also has the unusual distincion of powering the DOT's subway-car test tracks in Pueblo, Colorado before a connection from the commercial grid could be established (Cudahy 1979, p. 147).

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[edit] References

• Marre, Louis A. (1995). Diesel Locomotives: The First 50 Years. Kalmbach. ISBN 0890242585. 
• Thompson, J. David. GE U30C Original Owners.
• Cudahy, Brian J. (1979), Under the Sidewalks of New York, The Stephen Greene Press, ISBN 0-8289-0352-2