It's the day after Christmas, 1985, and the D&H is coming back to life after the holiday shutdown. The Belden Hill line is closed due to a tunnel enlargement project, so all northbound trains are ... (more)

Southern Pacific 3100 rests silently in the night awaiting the morning when visitors come to Orange Empire Railway Museum's Day Out with Thomas event.

Lehighton Bicentennials 3 - After being teased with a sighting of an EL bicentennial in helper service after the sun had dipped below the mountains, I returned to Lehighton the next day. A westbou... (more)

Rock Island U25B 218 and Alco FA 135 were probably discussing some of their latest runs and hoping for many more before their demise. The Alco has been re-equipped with EMD Blomberg trucks.

Should you ever want to complain about your working conditions, think of the employees who had to work in this pit in the days before EPA. Rock Island U25B 218, Alco FA 135 and EMD E8 645 awai... (more)

Just days off the erecting floor at GE’sErie, Pennsylvania, plant, spotless U25B 230 with two older sisters leads a freight up the approach to the Harry S Truman Bridge at Birmingham Missouri. O... (more)

Creeping along in unfamiliar territory, Rock Island U25B 210 makes its way past damaged right-of-way at Spruce on Colorado’s Joint Line, on its way to Denver with piggyback and auto loads. The ... (more)

A face only a mother could love - GE's high-hood U25B. Delivered in black with yellow nose chevrons. the boats were repainted into the new scheme, which left a too-big (for me, anyway) white area... (more)

Wabash second generation diesel era with GE U25B's #500-514, utilizing trucks and traction motors from 15 older Alco FA's and FB's Photographer H. Goerke. RL Collection.

In the very late 1970's and into the early 1980's GE was rebuilding old locomotives at the old Erie Hornell shops. A bunch of old C&O U25-B's were bought by the National de Mexico Railway. A West... (more)

A Rock Island train is about to cross the maze of tracks and railroads at Pullmand Jct departing it's 95th Street yard on the south side of Chicago

Southern Pacific used to paint engines in the open-air on the turntable whisker tracks at Los Angeles' Taylor Yard until the mid 70s. U25B 6709 is in chromate primer on July 22, 1973.

Is the camera aimed the wrong direction? Rock Island U25B 231 was on the point of Train 4, "Golden State," standing at North Topeka, Ks. station as westbound mail Train 39 with two F units approa... (more)

As Family Lines started to become an operational reality in the early 1970s, both SCL and L&N established run-through trains that used the A&WP/WofA between Atlanta and Montgomery. For the first ... (more)

With 27 units, L&N had by far the biggest U25B fleet in the southeast - really, the only fleet - but by 1975 the old boats were getting used more in big-city transfer service and less in mainline ... (more)