GE B30-7
The GE B30-7 road switcher diesel-electric locomotive model was offered first by GE in 1977, featuring a 16 cylinder engine. It is long. A change to the original B30-7 was using the 12 cylinder FDL rated at, resulting in a B30-7A, B30-7A1 and a cabless B30-7A.
B30-7As were built only for the Missouri Pacific Railroad and are externally identical to the 16-cylinder version B30-7.
B30-7A1s were built only for the Southern Railway.
Cabless B30-7A were built only for the Burlington Northern Railroad. Shortline railroad Providence and Worcester Railroad acquired five ex-BN B30-7A cabless units, reclassified as B30-7AB units, numbered #3004-3008, in 2001. National Railway Equipment acquired these locomotives in 2015.
In early 2017, Chesapeake and Ohio unit 8272 was repainted by CSX into its original Chessie System livery and donated to the Lake Shore Railway Museum.Original owners
