THIRD QUARTER 2026: Rock Island’s four-axle, high-horsepower General Electric U-Boats are featured in this edition. See examples from all three U33B orders and the near endless paint schemes and deteriorating condition of this locomotives as they worked through the road’s final decade. All this and more in the Third Quarter 2026 issue of Diesel Era!

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Third Quarter 2026

Vol. 37, No. 3


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A Bicentennial for the Semiquincentennial

The Milwaukee Road 156 Returns – photos by Shane T. Mason and Larry Smoak

Rock Island U33Bs

by Diesel Era Staff

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