Guaranteed Pre-Order Deadline is March 14th, 2026After closing, you may still place a pre-order and we will attempt to acquire one for you.Estimated Delivery Date Is: TBA
Product Information:
General Electric had long been touted as a company that supplied parts for other manufacturers. That would all change with GE’s entry into a road-switcher market dominated by EMD and Alco. In the late 1950s, GE’s engineers were developing a new V16 engine. What followed was the creation of the U25B road switcher. Available in both high-nose and low-nose variants, GE would sell over 450 U25Bs to a variety of Class I railroads. The U25B would pave the way for future Universal series locomotives.
Features:
- Improved mesh grilles to be finer in appearance
- Revised exhaust stack (seen above)
- Newly-tooled, thinner end handrails
- Rapido’s innovative dead-straight metal handrails with plastic stanchions on the new phase 3 and 4 designs
- Working step lights
- Revised AAR truck with separate lead springs and spinning bearings
- Improved front numberboard housing
- New Phase IV units representing late U25Bs and early U28Bs
- Working "frog lights" (Rock Island and MEC #225 and #228)
- BN with five-step stepwell
- Single front window or new double front window
- Both low and high-short hood versions
- Flat or new sloped low nose
- New side sill mounted handrails on Phase IV units
- Early high- and later low-style side doors
- Road specific details for each model
- Different exhaust stacks (depending on roadname)
- Road-specific battery box doors on engineer’s side
- MoPower capacitor
