As for GP30s vs GP30Ms… for the most part there were no external differences between them. However, most of the rebuilt GP30Ms did receive the trade mark Chessie slotted battery box door.

> catching these GP30 carbody classics leading CSX > locals. I've haven't seen any for awhile, at least > in the Louisville Ky. area and was wondering if > they had been retired from the roster? I haven't seen any lately but I hardly get out these days. Used to see them frequently on tank car runs from Ford Plant to Buckner. ALLEN

All these HO scale Life Like Proto 2000 GP30's here were either custom painted or renumbered by me. Hope you enjoy, Gilbert. First pic is factory painted Chessie and custom renumbered CSX 4200. Second pic is also factory paint and renumbered CSX 4204. Th

CSX interchanges with CSX several places, one of which is Warwick Ohio, I recently chased this engine on their steel train to Warwick and got to see this engine sitting on the interchange as a parade of AC's and SD70MAC's passed by on the main---so if you really WANT a GP30 on your layout, there are MANY ways to justify it, after all it is YOUR ...

Here are some HO scale Life Like Proto 2000 GP30's I modeled into former Chessie System GP30M's CSX inherited in the merger with Seaboard System. 34 C&O units and 33 B&O units were rebuilt from March of 1981 until the year of 1983. Modifications made were mostly internal. These units were 2

CSX has acquired 2 GP30 hulks via Ohio Central and the units are stenciled as CSX #2375 and 2376 so it looks as if there will be 2 "new" GP30 carbody slugs added to the fleet. These will be the first 2 units acquired from an outside source for this program.

CSX Rebuilt EMD Road Slug 2280 built Oct. 1962 as B&O GP30 6926 then numbered CSX 4119, then rebuilt by M-K Sept. 1990 and seen at Willard, OH May 16, 2001. Bill Kuba photo, Iowa Chapter NRHS collection

CSX GP30 Road Slug 2309 is the first known unit of its class to be retired and was in transit to LTEX in Lordstown, OH today on Q348 along with GP40-2 6404, GP15-1 1540, SD50 8560 and SD60 8708. Future not looking bright for certain CSX locos.

Re: CSX GP30/35 Road Slugs Horns Author: swaool Agree that in later years, most of them probably wore K5LAs, however in the early 1990s, we had a bunch of them working in Florida, particularly in the Bone Valley, and many of them had Leslie S3Ls at that time.

Dec 1990 CSX GP30 2255 works the ex-L&N yard in Flomaton,Al Gary