Penn Central ex New Haven General Electric U-25B # 2665. From the internet.

Penn Central ex New Haven General Electric U-25B # 2665. From the internet.
Originally uploaded by Eddie from Chicago

I spotted this photograph recently on the internet.

The locomotive shown here, was originally used on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. This railroad was merged in to the 1968 formed Penn Central Railroad in the year of 1969.

The Penn Central, was created from the merger of the financially troubled Pennsylvania Railroad, and it's rival for many years known as The New York Central Railroad in the year of 1968. The Penn Central had suffered many financial difficulties in it's short corporate life from 1968 until 1976, and had declared bankruptcy as early as 1970. It lived on borrowed time and borrowed funds, until a United States Govorment aganecy under the late U.S President Gerald R. Ford created Conrail in the year of 1976.

This former New Haven, General Electric U-25B roadswitcher, was still wearing it's original early 1960's era New Haven color scheme in this 1970's era photograph. The large NH markings on the side of the hood, were merely painted over with black paint, while the NH on the nose had been replaced with a white PC logo.