Locomotive profile: U25B

Locomotive profile: U25B

By Angela Cotey | March 16, 2020

| Last updated on November 3, 2020


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U25B No. 3100 calls Orange Empire Railway Museum home.
U25B No. 3100 calls Orange Empire Railway Museum home.
Jim Wrinn
U25B

•YEARS BUILT: 1959-1966

•MANUFACTURER: General Electric

•OPERATED ON: Santa Fe, Burlington, Chesapeake & Ohio, Erie Lackawanna, Great Northern, Louisville & Nashville, Milwaukee Road, New York Central, New Haven, Pennsylvania Railroad, Frisco, Southern Pacific, Union Pacific, Rock Island, Wabash

•NAME: U-boat

•QUANTITY: 478

•HORSEPOWER: 2,500

•KNOWN FOR: General Electric’s first road diesel

•STATUS: One remains in operation, Southern Pacific 3100, and several located in museums

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