Maine Central 238 is one of several U25B's purchased from Rock Island when the Rock ceased operations. A Mike Bledsoe photo.

View from the Maine Central engine house turntable, MEC's U23B 229 and GP7 567 at Bangor, Maine on July 24, 1983.

Conrail U25B 2622 leans into the curve as it leaves Bangor, Pennsylvania. The building that we’re about to pass is part of the Flory Milling complex. At one time, there was a trailing point sidi... (more)

The fall color is gone from the western Massachusetts hills and the November chill has set in as Maine Central U25B 226 and its EMD partners grind upgrade near Millers Falls, MA, with Boston & Mai... (more)

On a warm fall day shortly after the Boston & Maine and Maine Central began pooling road diesels, B&M train POME (Portland, ME, to Mechanicville, NY) rolls west through Shirley, MA, behind two MEC... (more)

Wabash GE U25B numbered 500-514. Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer name listed on slide.

Three Maine Central U-Boats, all acquired secondhand, will be working uphill as they depart Gardner, MA, with Boston & Maine train MERU (Mechanicville, NY, to Rumford, ME, via B&M/MEC). Lead unit ... (more)

Three Roads, Three Builders

During the colorful Susquehanna era in Binghamton, New York, diverse gatherings of paint schemes and locomotive models were commonplace, but different... (more)

When New Haven U25B 2519 posed at the Maybrook, NY, engine terminal in June 1969, Penn Central was already beginning to shift traffic away from this once-important connection between the NH and th... (more)

An impressive string of five New Haven U25Bs heads up an eastbound Maybrook Line freight dropping downhill through Shelton, CT. Lashups of U25Bs and Century 425s were the usual power on this impor... (more)

An early winter snow has dusted the ground as New Haven Railroad train NO-9 (New Haven/Cedar Hill Yard to Maybrook, NY) begins its climb out of the Housatonic Valley at Shelton, CT. Three U25Bs te... (more)

This Penn Central freight out of Selkirk Yard was southbound at Beacon, NY, on a summer afternoon, about to diverge from the Hudson Line onto the former New Haven Beacon Branch in order to head ea... (more)

A westbound freight on Penn Central's ex-New Haven Maybrook Line climbs the hill at Stevenson, CT, behind a mix of four axle and six axle GEs. The lead unit, PC U25B 2685, is the former NH 2525, t... (more)

As storm clouds loom in the background with rain just hours away, SP 3100 catches some sweet, late afternoon light as it backs into one of the equipment sheds at the Orange Empire Railroad Museum.... (more)

Milwaukee Road U25B No. 5007 sits outside the Tacoma Shops coupled to sister unit 5006.