#u23c

[thefakeray]

BN U23C 5201 by Chuck Zeiler Via Flickr: Burlington Northern Railroad U23C 5201 in the dead line at Cicero, Illinois on an unknown day in May 1981, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.

[digitalrailartist]

ATSF GE U23C 7513 by Craig Garver Via Flickr: ATSF GE U23C 7513 at Denver, Colorado, December 18, 1971. Photographer: Bruce Black. Scanned from a 2 1/4 x 4 1/4 negative owned by Digital Rail Artist.

[digitalrailartist]

AT&SF GE U23C 7506 by Craig Garver Via Flickr: AT&SF GE U23C 7506 at La Junta, Colorado, September 2, 1973. Photographer: Ed Fulcomer. Scanned from a 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 negative owned by Digital Rail Artist.

General Electric built 223 U23C’s between 1968 and 1973, but 170 of those were exported to Brazil. Santa Fe had the largest domestic fleet, with just 20 units, followed by Penn Central with 19. The Burlington picked up nine, and five went to the Lake Superior & Ishpeming. There were no other customers.

[thefakeray]

BN U23C 5200 by Chuck Zeiler Via Flickr: Burlington Northern Railroad U23C 5200 at Cicero, Illinois on an unknown day in May 1981, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Built by GE in April 1969 as CB&Q 460 ( c/n 36988 ), it became BN 5200 and was retired by the BN in June 1984. It is seen here in storage at Cicero. It was the first of nine U23C's ordered by the CB&Q ( road #'s 460-468 ), the last new locomotives acquired by the Q before the BN merger, and the only CB&Q GE locomotives not delivered in Chinese Red paint. The U23C's were delivered in the per-merger green with three white chevrons on the nose.