The Penn Central and the predecessor NYC ran a daily freight to CPR's St. Luc Yard from Syracuse, NY via Watertown and Massena. Today's power is two U25B's.

Santa Fe no. 6607 shows off her relatively new paint scheme on the point of a freight at Joliet, IL. A U30CG stolen from passenger service trails.

A pair of ex-New Haven U25Bs are still on home rails as they lead a southbound Penn Central freight past the old station at Enfield, CT, approaching the Connecticut River bridge.

Nearing its end of service, Chesapeake & Ohio U25B 8126 waits on the ready tracks in Charlottesville, Virginia.

An Erie Lackawanna U25B and an F7 take their rest at the Port Jervis, NY, engine terminal on a spring afternoon.

Southern Pacific #3100, GE U25B at OREM.

Built at the GE Transportation Plant in Erie in 1964, New York Central U25B number 2500 is now part of the collection at the Lake Shore Railway Museum that focuses on GE built locomotives.

A U25B/GP38 helper set shoves hard on the rear of a Penn Central coal train climbing the final miles to the summit of the Alleghenies. The uphill tracks are covered with sand from the countless ot... (more)

Rock Island U25B 225 waits for its next call at Blue Island Yard. The Old Rock island does not have much time left at the time of this photo

A trio of ex-New Haven U25Bs that now bear new Penn Central numbers growl through Milford, CT, with westbound piggyback traffic destined for the EL/L&HR interchange at Maybrook, NY.

EL 2505 running long hood forward (and with EL lettering above the maroon stripe), at Ridgewood Jct, NJ, Jan 1974.

EL 2504, a U25B, with a rail grinder train, at HoHoKus, NJ. Note the 6 axle ex steam tendor still being used, April 1975.

Six months after the Penn Central takeover, New Haven U25B 2519 heads up a GE quartet at Maybrook, NY. Within a few years this once-busy interchange point would be quiet as PC diverted traffic awa... (more)

CR 2646, a General Electric U25B has seen better days and is stored at Collinwood on Cleveland's eastside in February 1981. Former Southern Ry. CEO Stanley Crane has taken over the top job at Conr... (more)

Looking more like Waterville, Maine than Conklin, New York, the Delaware & Hudson East Binghamton engine house lead has five Maine Central U-boats preparing to get on the road. It’s the day afte... (more)