A very bad day for a Penn Central U25C- talk about smoking up the catenary! Built by GE in December 1965 for the PRR, the 6511 would survive into the Conrail era, eventually renumbered as 6811.
MP2282 was one of seven MoPac GE's that were rebuilt by Jenks Shop with an EMD cab after sustaining accident damage. Here the unit leads a train on the Sedalia Sub over the Big Bend Blvd. overpass... (more)
On its way to the Bailey mine, a Detroit Edison train of empties works upgrade through Nineveh, Pennsylvania. Nineveh is just a few miles outside of Waynesburg on the Monongahela’s Manor branch.
In 1968, GE raised the horsepower on its models, this time to 3300hp. Like its B-B brother the U33B, the U33C is also characterized by large "wings" on the long hood. Penn Central numbered the U... (more)