That is indeed a sad picture, I wonder if those are the last ex-Rock Island U-25-Bs?
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Perhaps the last of RI GE's. Its to bad.
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Wow. So sad to see anything cut up, just for the sake of "ironing" the books.
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The TTI 259 on the left was built as the CB&Q 112 in December 1966. It became the BN 5456 before going to the TTI. The TTI's other U28B's came from the Rock Island and the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie.
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What an awful thing to see, those are probably some of the last U28B's in existance. Its amazing no one bothered to save one. A CBQ or RI U28B would have been a great addition to the IRM museum.
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Where U-boats go to die. Orange Empire Railroad Museum in Perris California (~50 miles from downtown Los Angeles) has an operating U25B http://www.oerm.org/pages/sp3100.html I rode a train pulled by this unit back in April of this year.
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