Rock Island likes General Electric’s U25B. The road bought its first in spring, 1963 and by November 1964 has acquired 39 of the 2500-hp locomotives, including the 207, seen here eastbound with ... (more)

An ex-PRR U25B leads six other GE units, smoking up the catenary east of CP MANOR. The 2602 was built by GE with dual control stands in August, 1962 as PRR Class GF25 No. 2502.

A Roger Puta photograph.

A Roger Puta photograph

Five Maine Central GE’s lead a northbound D&H train past the Frito-Lay facility in Colesville, NY. The train is eastbound on Conrail’s former Erie Southern Tier line to reach the D&H Penn Divi... (more)

Mid-mornings, Burlington’s 23rd Street engine terminal in Denver gets busy. Freight power is in from the east and has to be fueled and serviced, and passenger power must be made ready for the va... (more)

Forgotten U boat.

Early October, 1964, word is out among Denver railfans that something new is coming to town. Fresh off the GE erecting floor at Erie, Pennsylvania, four of Burlington’s new U25Bs are making thei... (more)

Starting in the mid-1960s one might encounter power from almost any railroad on Union Pacific’s Wyoming mainline. Still it was a bit unusual to find a single Burlington leading on all-UP consist... (more)

The D&H Penn Division detour helper crew backs their power toward a waiting train at the west end of East Binghamton Yard. After all connections are made, the road crew at the other end of the tra... (more)

Late afternoon in the piñon and mesa landscape of southern New Mexico. The temperature on July 29, 1967, has just slipped below 100 degrees as GSX, the Golden State Express, otherwise known as #9... (more)

Rock Island U25B 202 left its own rails behind 45 miles ago, in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. Now it’s rolling through the piñons on the Southern Pacific just south of Vaughn, hell bent on an early e... (more)

The crew man on the ground is waiting to get the ok to throw the switch to get onto the B&O tracks.

On a transfer run to DeCoursey I think.