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Nostalgia & History > room with a view.Date: 07/21/18 03:44 room with a view. Author: Roadjob this shot of a drag entering the Chessie/C&O yard at Russell Kentucky did not draw much interest from me at the time, but it was relief from the coveyor belt of coal trains they were running in the area at the time. Never printed this image, but in going through my land of lost negatives, I couldn't help but be intrigued by the large center window on the lead U25B. Most U25s I had seen were on the EL at the time, or PC, and both has a frame in the center of the middle window. The uniqueness of this unit caught up with me 43 years later. I'm sure other roads opted for this, but this is the only one I ever saw.
 Date: 07/21/18 06:58 Re: room with a view. Author: WM_1109 Interesting. The 1963 GE brochure on the U25B would seem to indicate that the single frame windshield was the standard configuration.
http://www.thedieselshop.us/U25B%20[196306]%20(RFS,%20OCRSIE).pdf -Ted Date: 07/21/18 08:28 Re: room with a view. Author: Evan_Werkema Low nose U25B's had the one-piece windshield until the last year of production, when GE changed to the two-piece design. Erie Lackawanna and Penn Central rostered U25B's with both windshield configurations:
https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,3988981,3988981#3988981 https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,4051716,4051716#4051716 http://www.hebners.net/PC/pcU25B/pc2633.jpg https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,4541986,4541986#4541986 Date: 07/21/18 08:57 Re: room with a view. Author: Roadjob Thanks for the info. I seemed to have seen only the split windshields, or at least I thought so. I only rode in a U25B one time on EL and remember the frame in the center. Would have loved that large view! Have to check back on my photo albums of printed pictures from that era. I think it was the big white frame around the window that caught my attention on this one.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/21/18 08:59 by Roadjob. Date: 07/21/18 09:30 Re: room with a view. Author: PHall GE went to the two piece windshield at their customers request. That single piece of glass was expensive!
Date: 07/21/18 09:34 Re: room with a view. Author: ns2557 Didn't the "slope" of the low nose coincide with units that had the 2 pc windsheild? I seem to recall on at least the PC units, those that had the more flat top of nose also had the one pc windsheild. Or am I imagining this? Thnks, Ben
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/21/18 09:40 by ns2557. Date: 07/22/18 08:36 Re: room with a view. Author: GN599 ns2557 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Didn't the "slope" of the low nose coincide with > units that had the 2 pc windsheild? I seem to > recall on at least the PC units, those that had > the more flat top of nose also had the one pc > windsheild. Or am I imagining this? Thnks, Ben No you’re not. That was a late U25 early U28B thing. Date: 07/22/18 14:59 Re: room with a view. Author: Evan_Werkema ns2557 Wrote:
> Didn't the "slope" of the low nose coincide with > units that had the 2 pc windsheild? The change to a two-piece windshield pre-dated the sloped nose by a few months. One commonly accepted set of "phase" nomenclature for U25B production variations assigns "Phase III" to the two-piece windshield, non-sloped nose version and "Phase IV" to the two-piece windshield, sloped nose version: http://dieseldetailer.proboards.com/thread/15306/u25b Conrail 2648 in this old thread is a two-piece, non-slope U25B: https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,1800497 As is SLSF 823 in this old thread: https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,4388011,4388019#4388019 This YukonYeti thread on Frisco U25B's illustrates the difference between two-piece, flat nose 817 and two-piece, sloped nose 829: https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,3972819,3972830#3972830 |