Two former PRR U25Bs (2606-2605) and a former NYC U30B (2885), all still wearing Conrail blue and running "elephant style" in reverse are in charge of a long afternoon freight from Paris, Illinois... (more)

Switching

It's Christmas at the Lake Shore Railway Museum! A caboose excursion for visitors is running on museum trackage under the power of a 44-tonner, seen here from the NYC-painted U25B.

a PC trainsfer running on TRRA trackage along waterfront of Mississippi River adjacent Gateway Arch in St Louis

U25Bs were common in 1973...

Two month old U25Bs 2504, 2505, and 2506.

Westbound leaves Dewitt Yard as an eastbound with EMDs enters

Heading west at the ex-Erie RR station

A couple U-boats lead a GP35 on westbound 83 at Cedar Lake in 1966. Photo is part of my collection but is not shot by me. No name on slide, scanned from a Ektachrome transparency.

For some unknown reason I remember this like it was yesterday. I was my first experience on the former NYC main line. As we arrived at the location and looked down a long straight stretch to the... (more)

Headed for W. 72nd Street

BN U boat and GP sitting at Galesburg, IL || June 1976

A C&O mine run is en-route to the mines with a train of empty hoppers at Elimer, KY on C&O's Sandy Valley and Elkhorn Subdivision. By this date, May 31, 1978, C&O's U25Bs were nearing the end of ... (more)

Shortly after the merger of GN, NP, SP&S and CB&Q there were many examples of mixed running and mixed consists. Witness this meet at Scribner, WA on the former SP&S with a GN U25B and a NP SD45.