I wouldn't have bet she wouldn't run again but I'd put a lot of money on "not tomorrow". With a lineage SAL>SCL>SBD>CSX these early carbody units didn't last very long, being traded off... (more)

TTI 260 (U28B) leads the caboose train through Johnson Siding during the Illinois Railway Museum's 2025 Diesel Days event.

Westbound Rock Island freight pass commuter train crew at Joliet Union Station

A failed attempt at saving the Rock Island after a failed attempt with a merger with the Union Pacific. This was a short lived scheme but attractive. Too bad it didn't survive, as Johnny Cash woul... (more)

P&LE, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie U28B 2812, leads a northbound loaded coal train on the Monongahela Rwy at mp8 Clarksville, Pennsylvania. April 23, 1986. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

PC, Penn Central 2822 U28B. One of two built for NYC. Oak Island engine terminal other unit CR, Conrail 3006 GP40, Newark, New Jersey. October 10, 1977. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Pittsburgh and Lake Erie, P&LE U28B 2819 -MP15DC 1593 -U28B 2818, northbound coal on the Monongahela Railway at Brownsville, Pennsylvania. March 27, 1986. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo If you look c... (more)

Running on the Colorado & Southern trackage at Sand Creek Junction near Denver on September 09, 1968, an eastbound Burlington freight is propelled by five Chinese red units with U28B 112 on the ... (more)

Flemingsburg is like an old movie. just a station in the middle of nowhere, by this date just a place where M of W equipment ties up. Here a southbound empty train rattles by and soon the birds a... (more)

Early model U28Bs are best distinguished from the U25 by the sloping nose. This former CRI&P unit was photographed by Dave Petke. From my collection.

Fall is well along as a huge string of old GEs chug into town with radiators blocked by fallen leaves. The train is empty so maybe nothing overheated on the way.

Despite having tried to railfan the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie main once, this U28B quartet lead overhead is the only Pittsburgh & Lake Erie train I ever saw in my lifetime and it was on the Norfolk &... (more)

Iowa Railroad GE U28B 22 sits at the roads yard In Council Bluffs Iowa on a nice day in June 1984

ex-RI 244

TTI 260, a former CB&Q U28B, basks in the sun at the Illinois Railway Museum. CSX recently donated this unit to the museum and it will eventually be painted into CB&Q red.