A pair of former New Haven U25Bs on the point of a Penn Central freight out of Oak Point Yard in the Bronx have completed their work at East Bridgeport Yard in Bridgeport, CT, and are on their way... (more)

A northbound Delaware & Hudson Penn Division detour train rolls west along Conrail’s Southern Tier Line in Lanesboro, Pennsylvania.

A trio of former New Haven U25Bs grind up Stevenson Hill on the Maybrook Line in western Connecticut, with interchange traffic for the EL and L&HR. PC had already begun routing traffic away from t... (more)

A U-Boat With Extra Props

After a long career as a road engine, Louisville & Nashville U25B 1606 is now working in yard service and on mine runs. It’s now getting extra tractive ef... (more)

Three-builder lineups could still be found in Louisville & Nashville’s Corbin, Kentucky yard in the early 1980’s. Here a U25B, an SD40, and a C420 occupy adjacent tracks.

A Louisville & Nashville U25B in fresh Family Lines paint mingles with an SD40-2 in the classic yellow-nose L&N scheme at the engine house in Corbin, Kentucky. Before the year is out, the Seaboar... (more)

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.

Train 255 departs Portage after arriving from Milwaukee with me at the throttle. 255 was a Milwaukee to St.Paul way freight that switched just about everything. I spent two years on this freight a... (more)

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 siding... (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)