Rock Island GE U25B 241, with UP GP30 855 and UP SD24u 3399 at Blue Island, Illinois August 28, 1975. Unknown photographer listed on slide, from my collection.

A pair of Louisville & Nashville U-boats work their way through the yard in Loyall, Kentucky. U25B 1623, built in 1964, is partnered with 1973-vintage U23B 2713.

MILW 5056 spent many years in Milwaukee, WI before finally going to the Illinois RR Museum. Much of the time was spent on Jones Island and I was able to photograph it with several different Great ... (more)

There's a happy ending! MILW sits on a siding in the MILW yard in Milwaukee, WI in March of 1985. The unit would get moved and spend several years on Jones Island in Milwaukee before ultimately go... (more)

Eastbound EL train passing through Pullman Junction

KANSAS CITY KS March 10 1979 -- Frisco U25B 821, GP38-2s 471 and 677 round a curve. The 821 was part of an order of U25Bs which were the first new units delivered in Mandarin orange and white. KC ... (more)

Wabash GE U25B 508 with five F7s and other U25B. No photographer listed on slide from my collection.

What a Recession Looks Like

A visit to Southern Pacific's primary yard and shop complex in Los Angeles, Taylor Yard (located just north of downtown), during the 1973-1975 recessi... (more)

MILW 5056 rests in the scrapyard on Jones Island with some RR cranes and an old gondola. The U25B would sit here for several years before being donated to the Illinois RR Museum. The fleet is also... (more)

On a warm summer night in the early 80's, the conductor of a work train in the process of removing the second track chats with the local section foreman before tying up for the night. This is typ... (more)

June, 1988- a brand new GMC hi-rail truck passes a ratty ex-NYC U25b tied down on a siding. This shot was taken at the Lake Shore Railway Museum's annual Night at the Railroad Museum event, hel... (more)

Northwestern Pennsylvania, sometime in the mid-1980's. An eastbound freight behind a battered ex-PC U25b waits in the hole for a recrew as a short westbound local zips by on the main. With fusee... (more)

An ex-EL U25B smokes up the catenary after a crew change, as the relief fireman gets in a few last words with his fellow employees waiting on a taxi. No. 2573 was built by GE for the Erie-Lackawa... (more)

MILW 5056 rests on Jones Island in Milwaukee before being delivered to the Illinois RR Museum. The Laker Arthur Anderson is best known for being the last ship to see or hear from the Edmund Fitzge... (more)

The Jefferson Junction helper crew brings a Penn Division detour train east through Great Bend, Pennsylvania on Conrail’s Southern Tier line. The train is D&H, but the motive power is a solid se... (more)