A Santa Fe C30-7 Conrail purchased from GE/ATSF for the Conrail lease fleet waits for service in Altoona Shop's yard, sans prime mover. This was the time when there were probably twenty or so like it sitting there, as well as the NJT U34h's that had just ended their career and were well hidden out of camera range. This unit would be rebuilt then painted in the simplified blue scheme as CRL 502.
Location: Altoona, PA
Photo Date: ?-90
Photographer: Tom Hannon     Added: May 30, 2000

A former-ATSF unit originally to be placed into Conrail's lease arm, but 505 was one of several units transferred into regular Conrail service. Shawn notes that when this photo was taken 505 and 538 had just been out-shopped from the NYS&W Utica Shops under contract for GE and sounded and ran like new. "CRL" has been repainted with "CR" on the cab.
Location: Utica, NY
Photo Date: ?-98
Photographer: Shawn Noe     Added: October 18, 1998

Former ATSF lease unit. "CRL" has been repainted with "CR" on the cab.
Location: Utica, NY
Photo Date: ?-98
Photographer: Shawn Noe     Added: October 18, 1998

Another former ATSF C30-7 8081.
Location: Altoona, PA
Photo Date: ?-97
Photographer: Mike Stolter     Added: April 25, 2006

Former ATSF 8088. The original CRL leasing reporting marks have been removed, with only CR remaining.
Location: Altoona, PA
Photo Date: ?-97
Photographer: Mike Stolter     Added: April 25, 2006

First unit delivered. Note the star under the cab, see Proto Info for details.
Location: Morrisville, PA
Photo Date: 4-81
Photographer: Robert Palmer     Added: September 16, 1998

Conrail C30-7 6601 at North Adams Junction, Pittsfield, MA. One of a four-unit lash-up, which had been busy this day moving empty and loaded ballast trains back and forth between Pittsfield and West Springfield. When transferred to Conrail's lease fleet in 1992 and 1993, 6601 would be leased to Southern Pacific.
Location: Pittsfield, MA
Photo Date: 6-16-84
Photographer: Carl Weber     Added: August 10, 2008

CR 6601 is on UNL-40 (loaded unit coal train bound for the Milliken, NY power plant, which closed in August 2019) sitting on Ithaca Secondary after running around its train. The red L on the cab designates this as one of the locomotives Conrail leased to the Southern Pacific during the early 1990's. SP applied the letter, but Conrail took their time removing them.
Location: Ithaca Secondary
Photo Date: ?-93
Photographer: Tom Hannon     Added: May 30, 2000

Another shot of 6601 taken on UNL.
Location: Ithaca Secondary
Photo Date: ?-93
Photographer: Tom Hannon     Added: May 30, 2000

CR 6602 is a trailing unit out of Gang Mills.
Location: Gang Mills, NY
Photo Date: 4-28-83
Photographer: Kevin DeGroff     Added: April 29, 2003

CR 6604 still has its star on the cab since this is an early shot of the units.
Location: Erwin, NY
Photo Date: 3-10-84
Photographer: Kevin DeGroff     Added: April 29, 2003

CR 6606 is running under the wires of Frankfort Junction. CR 6606 would be sold off in 1995 and be rebuilt as C36-7EM HLCX 594. It would then be sold to MRS Logística in Brazil. South America and Spain became the last home of most of the Conrail C30-7's.
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Photo Date: 10-84
Photographer: John Bondura     Added: June 4, 2002

CR 6609 has one year of service left before it will be sent to the British Columbia Railway as BCOL 3624, where it will be rebuilt as a C36-8M. It would serve on into the early 2000's before being retired again and sent down to Waycross, GA as PRSX 3624. From GA it would be sent Central Peru in South America, where it was still operating as of this posting.
Location: Cleveland, OH (Collinwood Yard)
Photo Date: 8-10-94
Photographer: Dave Trenn     Added: June 11, 2019