#u28b

[railwayhistorical]

A Mighty Fine Line

Here’s a westbound Rock Island freight train crossing over the diamonds at Joliet, Illinois. The train is clattering over both the Santa Fe as well as the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio here. The lead unit seen here is a General Electric U28B built for the road in 1966.

One image by Richard Koenig; taken September 20th 1975.

[20th-century-railroading]

Running on the Colorado & Southern trackage at Sand Creek Junction near Denver on September 09, 1968, an eastbound Burlington freight is propelled by five Chinese red units with U28B 112 on the point. Photo by Ken Crist

[skippyscage]

USAF U-28B 07-0821 with AFSOC

- Centennial Airport, CO

- April 2021

[digitalrailartist]

Rock Island GE U28B 250 by Craig Garver Via Flickr: Rock Island GE U28B 250 at Council Bluffs Iowa, November 11, 1974. Photographer: George R Cockle. Scanned from a 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 negative owned by Digital Rail Artist. Rock Island GE U28B 250 RI GE U28B 250

[thefakeray]

BN U28B 5456 by Chuck Zeiler Via Flickr: Burlington Northern Railroad U28B 5456 and GP50 3126 at Clyde, Illinois on December 20, 1985, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Note that the front windows are plated over, generally indicating that the railroad chose not to install bullet-resistant glass, as mandated by the FRA. The side windows, however, remain intact. From FRA Part 223: Except for yard locomotives and locomotives equipped as described in paragraphs (a) and (b), of this section, locomotives built or rebuilt prior to July 1, 1980, shall be equipped with certified glazing in all locomotive cab windows after June 30, 1984. Number 5456 was built by GE in December 1966 ( c/n 36117 ) as CB&Q 112, retired by the BN in August 1986.

[marmarinou]

“A Rock Island eastbound freight behind U25b, U28b (231-250) approaches Union Depot. Soon the U-boats and their attendant piggies will bang the diamonds of the combined Santa Fe and Gulf Mobile & Ohio mainlines.”

Joliet, Illinois

July 1969

Photo by Paul Enenbach

(via Joliet, Illinois, July'69 | A Rock Island eastbound freight … | Flickr)

[aryburn-trains]

As Amtrak's NB Lone Star discharges passengers in the background (with former CZ Obs Silver Solarium carrying the markers), a westbound Rock Island freight behind U28B 271 clunks across the diamonds. Kodachrome 64, Yashica TL August, 1974

[airmanisr]

BN U28B 5455 by Chuck Zeiler Via Flickr: Burlington Northern Railroad U28B 5455 at Clyde, Illinois on an unknown day in September 1980, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 5455 was built in December 1966 ( c/n 36116 ) as CB&Q 111, retired by the BN in August 1986.

[dumbraveanu]

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[dyqaniiofertave-blog]

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[railwayhistorical]

Hunter Switch

A northbound train roars up the hill out of Bloomington, Indiana, on the Louisville & Nashville, former Monon. The lead unit is a General Electric U28B built for the L&N in 1966.

The Hoosier Line was known for their semaphore signals, but this location had searchlights as long as I was around.

One image by Richard Koenig; taken in December 1975.

[20th-century-railroading]

MILW 5511 Milwaukee Shops, JUN 13,1982 by Danial Via Flickr: Built for The Milwaukee Road in July 1966 as their 134, this General Electric U28B sits silent and out of service sixteen years later with no future. The 5511 has been back and forth across this great land many many times, leading time freights early in it's career to lugging freight over the mountains in Washington until it's retirement in May 1980 when the western end of The Milwaukee Road was embargoed. This photo was taken during an employee open house at The Milwaukee Road's shops in Milwaukee on June 13th, 1982.

MILW 5511 U28B Milwaukee, WI. June 13, 1982

[thefakeray]

BN U28B 5458 by Chuck Zeiler Via Flickr: Burlington Northern Railroad U28B 5458 at Galesburg, Illinois on an unknown day in June 1981, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 5458 was built by GE in January 1967 ( c/n 36119 ) as CB&Q 114, retired by the BN in August 1986.

[marmarinou]

Rock Island Yard

Blue Island, Illinois

March 1974

Photo by Robert Jordan

[20th-century-railroading]

Two nearly-new Pittsburgh and Lake Erie GE-built U28B locomotives, led by 2818, pass through the station trackwork at Pittsburgh's P&LE headquarters, in March, 1966, with an eastbound freight train.

[20th-century-railroading]

Joliet, Illinois, 21JUN'70

Rock Island westbound freight passes U.D. tower and crosses ATSF/GM&O behind U25b, GP40, U28b, U28b, U33b (203....) Once he clears the diamonds (and the drawbridge over the DesPlaines River about a half mile ahead), this gaggle of power will probably put the 60mph speed limit in the shade.