These lasted just over a year in passenger service.
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Photographer/Credit: Dan Pope Collection / RMP Archive
Photo Image Date: 1967
Image ID: DP0003
Train print of ATSF (Santa Fe) #404 U-30CG + U-28CG, both in Warbonnet paint, pulling the 'Texas Chief' into Fort Worth, Texas.
This is what Wikipedia says about the U30CG:
Quote:The six production locomotives were delivered to the ATSF (road numbers 400-405) in November 1967, a month before EMD's competing FP45s.
The locomotives' initial primary assignment was to the Grand Canyon Limited between Chicago and Los Angeles, but they were also seen on the Super Chief as well as secondary trains such as the Texas Chief and the San Diegan. All this came to an end on February 9, 1969 when a U30CG derailed hauling the Grand Canyon Limited on Edelstein Hill near Chillicothe, Illinois. The U30CG design was suspected, and both classes of GE passenger locomotives were placed on freight assignments, and never were reinstated to passenger service.