NYC (PC)-Santa Fe run through train from Elkhart, Indiana, pulls into the Santa Fe yard at Fort Madison, Iowa, on April 9, 1969. Trailing ATSF U25B 1601 is PRR 2343 and a NYC GP40. The train came ... (more)

power at EL's Chicago area facility

A huge Boise Cascade paper mill at Rumford rated a daily train back in the 80's...maybe it still does today. If so power like this surely isn't leading it. MEC U25B 226 and U18B 406 are making an ... (more)

The MEC bought a group of ex RI U25B's after the Rock went under. Not all of them were made operational as some were to far gone and became parts sources to get the majority of them up and running... (more)

Former Rock Island U25B #229 leads a Maine Central freight switching at the crossing of the Grand Trunk in a driving rain storm.

An ex GN U25B rests in company of a Q sister at St. Paul in this slide from my collection. No photographer information on slide.

RI 240 sitting outside the Rock Island shops in Silvis, IL

This shot from my collection has no photographer or location listed on the slide. My guess is Denver or Pueblo just because of the date and the ATSF U-boats mixed in. Maybe it could be Lincoln, NE... (more)

Race for Otisville Tunnel! No contest, actually. Two eastbound manifests climb the grade out of Port Jervis, but the U-boat has more horsepower in its lashup, and will reach the single track tunne... (more)

Merry Christmas to all!! Hard to believe that it has been 27 years since I took this photo of a Guilford detour train heading West towards Binghamton after running around it's train at Lanesboro. ... (more)

A southbound D&H manifest ducks under a highway overpass at Hop Bottom, PA on Oct. 11, 1985 with MEC U25Bs No's. 225 and 234.

A pair of U25-B's that are still in PC markings bracket a blue C-628 on a Westbound departing Hornell on a dreary May afternoon.

By the 1980s, Chessie had pulled all of C&O’s U25Bs out of service and stored them in Clifton Forge, Virginia. Here, parked beside the Clifton Forge Locomotive Shops, a string of nearly thirty ... (more)