We're north of Roanoke waiting on the inbound 1987 NRHS Convention Special, catching some southbound freight action led by a long-hood forward U23B, still in its Southern Railway Paint scheme.

The East Penn crew is switching their train out at the CSX Yard near Wilmington

In April 1974 U23B 6329 leads a U28C and U30CG west through Joliet with a mostly intermodal hotshot. The latter two units had been built for passenger service prior to Amtrak's takeover of those t... (more)

It’s early afternoon in the small town best known for onions when the usual hum of commerce is broken by the unmistakeable chug chugs of a beautiful pure unmuffled GE consist under load. The Ma... (more)

Guilford colors dominate one of the Delaware & Hudson service tracks in Conklin, New York. In a little over seven months, GTI would pull out of the D&H, and the Susquehanna will operate the Bridge... (more)

Conrail local WHRE-99, a job that worked east from Reading along the Reading Belt Line and the former Reading main line, is seen here returning west at Stowe, Pennsylvania.

Conrail U23B 2788 reaches the end of the Pottstown Industrial Track in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and joins the former Reading main line at MP41, just west of Pottstown.

One of Conrail’s twelve U23B’s inherited from the Lehigh Valley trundles west on the Pottstown Industrial Track in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. The Pottstown Industrial Track was one of several re... (more)

Huntsville and Madison County Railroad Authority (HMCR) U23B 9554 and B23-7 3986 are parked in the HMCR yard in downtown Huntsville, AL while two Hoffman Transportation dry bulk trucks unload one ... (more)

A Finger Lakes U23B works the yard wearing Lehigh Valley inspired paint.

Locomotives:
FGLK 2201 U23B

A northbound Seaboard System freight headed up by a former Louisville & Nashville U23B and two U33Bs pauses for a late afternoon crew change at the station in Rocky Mount, NC. No, I wasn't riding ... (more)

While Loyall, Kentucky was best known for its concentration of Louisville & Nashville Alco’s, there was also a good deal of GE and EMD power to be found there. Here a U23B/U25B pair works its wa... (more)

Three ATSF GE U25B’s hustle tonnage southward toward Houston and the Gulf at Milano, Texas on April 16, 1971.

A southbound Delaware & Hudson arrives at Bridge 60 in Scranton. The solid blue paint scheme on the U23B is quickly revealing the unit’s original lightning stripe scheme.

A string of former Western Pacific GEs sits outside Union Pacific's North Little Rock shops awaiting disposition. Several of these units would be rebuilt to a Super7-23B for use on the Monongahel... (more)