Looking good awaiting an assignment. Photo by Dave Petke.

WB stack train. Photo by Jim Satterwhite (?,no name on slide), from my collection.

WB merchandise. Photo by Mike Dolenski, from my collection.

Hot bottles
Conrail EMD GP38-2 No. 8155 powers a hot metal “bottle train” approaching the busy junction at Dolton, Illinois, on March 19, 1988. These trains shipped molten metal from... (more)

April's Fools Day GG1s. On April 1, 1978, Conrail GG1s 4840 and 4806 bring a freight train westbound through Princeton Junction, New Jersey. Looking at other shots this day (of less interesting to... (more)

When I got into my rent-a-car and starting driving from downtown Cleveland to Collinwood Yard, it had been five and a half years since my previous visit. At that time the deadline was 90% Alco Cen... (more)

Vintage Rotary. What would ultimately become Conrail 64599 was built by the Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works of Paterson, New Jersey in coordination with Leslie Brother in January 1889 fo... (more)

Two westbound U25Bs on the old Reading Lines west of Palmyra in 1977, headed downgrade toward Hershey. Lead unit No. 2645 was built for the PRR in March 1965 as their No. 2545.

SD45-2 # 6660 @ Altoona Pa.

Mail 3.

Still holding onto Conrail paint.

Northbound on the Northeast Corridor.

Conrail's Collinwood to Rockport yard transfer passes through the F-unit mecca (at the time) of Collinwood Yard, Cleveland, Ohio, on December 28, 1978. It is led by three dewormed Penn Central F7(... (more)

Conrail HA16 passes Delaware & Hudson NE87 on the west end of Allentown Yard in Allentown Pennsylvania. The day is February 11, 1978 and my dad and I had been railfanning in the gorgeous sun since... (more)

Conrail AL-13 was also known as the East Penn Drill. On this day it was led by a former Reading SW1001. The drill is appropriately passing the remains of what had been Reading Company's y... (more)