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)
Still looking good in what is probably the original paint job.
One of the few times I was upset the U25B was leading was this cold snowy day in Haworth as the trailers were the far rarer U25C and U28C. Oh well, you take what you can! It looks like the fireman... (more)
A locomotive consist on the Rock Island could muster takes a westbound freight across Terminal Junction at the west end of Rock Island's Rock Island yard. The RI mainline crossed the BN and DRI m... (more)
After the Milwaukee Road abandoned its Pacific Extension a number of locomotives were stored at their Hiawatha facility south of downtown Minneapolis, including these two U25Bs.
C&O U25B No. 8107 was positioned for load testing in Clifton Forge, VA on July 28, 1979. At the time, U25Bs were dropping like flies, with plenty of them retired and stored at Clifton Forge. I g... (more)
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.
