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Owner: Soo Line
Model:EMD GP30Built As:SOO 717 (GP30)
Serial Number:28337Order No:7654
Frame Number:7654-17Built:5/1963
Notes:To WC 10/1987
Other locos with this serial:  SOO 717(GP30) WC 717(GP30)
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31 cents a gallon
Title:  31 cents a gallon
Description:  It was probably not June 10th, 1968 because that was my operators date on the Milwaukee Road and I was in La Crosse, Wisconsin taking the "rules class" with the Chief Dispatcher back in those days when there was such a person! It was a time when GP9s ran together with F7As and/ or Bs--- and when GP30s & GP35s were new! AND before I forget it was also when gas was 31cents a gallon! That must have been nice you say?! Well considering that people then maybe made 2 or 3 dollars an hour and 5 cents worth of Jelly Beans would last all day--- I suppose all things are relative! But was it better than?! Yes and No is perhaps the correct answer!
Photo Date:  6/10/1968  Upload Date: 7/30/2010 4:03:59 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SOO 2203a(F7A) SOO 556(GP9) SOO 717(GP30)
Views:  1055   Comments: 1
SOO 717
Title:  SOO 717
Description:  I never saw very many of them, but I think that they look great!
Photo Date:  6/30/1969  Upload Date: 7/30/2010 2:31:54 AM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Steven Rush
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SOO 717(GP30)
Views:  487   Comments: 1
SOO 717
Title:  SOO 717
Description:  SOO 717
Photo Date:  1/1/1979  Upload Date: 9/7/2010 10:12:19 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Greg Smith
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOO 717(GP30)
Views:  538   Comments: 1
SOO 717
Title:  SOO 717
Description:  SOO 717
Photo Date:  1/1/1983  Upload Date: 7/14/2005 7:38:44 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  Jim Matuska
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SOO 717(GP30)
Views:  800   Comments: 0
SOO GP30 717
Title:  SOO GP30 717
Description:  SOO GP30 717 at Bensenville, Illinois on September 9, 1987, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Another airplane in the shot.
Photo Date:  9/9/1987  Upload Date: 10/16/2012 1:24:13 PM
Location:  Bensenville, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SOO 717(GP30)
Views:  306   Comments: 1


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