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Pictures of SOO 717
Owner:
Soo Line
Model:
EMD GP30
Built As:
SOO 717 (GP30)
Serial Number:
28337
Order No:
7654
Frame Number:
7654-17
Built:
5/1963
Notes:
To WC 10/1987
Other locos with this serial:
SOO 717(GP30)
WC 717(GP30)
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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:
1241
Comments:
1
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:
606
Comments:
1
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:
663
Comments:
1
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:
969
Comments:
0
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