The U25B (nicknamed U-Boat) is the first commercially successful domestic diesel electric road locomotive designed, built, and sold by General Electric after its split with the American Locomotive Company (Alco), a company dating back to the steam era.

Unit # Notes Model Serial # Pictures : BN 5210: ex-Frisco: U25B 34573: 1: 266544: BN 5217: ex-SLSF 815 New as GE demonstrator 54. U25B GE 34565

Burlington Northern Railroad U25B 5411 stored at Cicero, Illinois on an unknown day in November 1980, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Built in April 1965 as GN 2511 ( c/n 35568 ), it is listed as retired in May 1981, although it may have been taken out of service earlier, judging by the paper or plastic covering the exhaust stack.

Now, the ground-breaking and much-admired, 2,500-horsepower, four-axle General Electric U25B – together with its six-axle (C-C) U-Boat sister, the U25C – comes to Train Simulator Classic in the liveries of six legendary BNSF predecessor railroads!

Ex NYC, PC 2510. Scrapped 2022.

Sold to Precision National Corp 6/1981.

May 20, 2005 · GE U25B - 10 of 54 units; Road Numbers Builder Date Date Date Notes BN # 1st # BNSF # Number Built Rebuilt Retired: 5210 SLSF 808 - 34573 Jul 63 Oct 81 5211 SLSF 809 - 34571 Jul 63 Oct 81 5212 SLSF 810 - 34572 ...

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It became BN 5217, Class U25B, in December 1980 and retired in September 1981. It was sold to Precision National Corp. 5218, Class U25B, was built in March 1965, #35522, as SL-SF 816.

7. BN GE U25B 5233 built as SLSF 831 in Feb. 1966 and retired Sept. 1981, seen Sept. 11, 1981. Larry Anglund photo Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 09/24/23 19:38 by MartyBernard.