In my last TTI photo, several people asked about the Rock Island engines. The TTI 246 shown here is an ex-Rock Island U28B of the same number. The smoke from the scrapping of TTI 259 was spreadi... (more)
When I saw a whisp of smoke coming from the U28B's, I thought one was being fired up for service. Unfortunately it was the scrapper's torch ending the life of another U-Boat.
A look inside TTI's Paris yard shows plenty of GE power in two shades of blue waiting for their next assignment. Bright blue B36-7 5857 sits at right paired with sister 5807. Just behind 5807 is U... (more)
once part of the backbone of TTI's locomotive fleet, this U28B spends its final days in the deadline being stripped of parts and eventually be cut up for scrap. As of late 2008 only 2 or 3 U28B's ... (more)