Conrail's ex-New Haven caboose Class N-8A No. 23662 (originally NH Class NE-6 No. 687,) built by International Car Co. in 1948, rounds the Horseshoe Curve westbound, behind a Penn Central trail va... (more)

An ex-EL U25B smokes up the catenary after a crew change, as the relief fireman gets in a few last words with his fellow employees waiting on a taxi. No. 2573 was built by GE for the Erie-Lackawa... (more)

The end of the Conrail electric years affords a rare opportunity to see an E-44 and an E-33 coupled nose-to-nose in the scrap line at Rutherford.

A westbound Conrail N-7A caboose flashes across the diamond at Block Station LANDIS, where the Reading & Columbia Branch crossed the double-tracked PRR mainline. No. 21738 was built by the St. Lo... (more)

Taking the high line bypass of 30th Street Station, Conrail train PICA (Pittsburgh – Camden) looms over the nearly empty Amtrak coach yard. The two C40-8W’s still have their factory shine afte... (more)

A former Conrail caboose trails NS local freight TS29 out of Sharon Yard at CP 246 as they head out to switch out a couple of customers between here and Milepost 245.

A westbound Conrail freight swings under the ex-Pennsylvania Railroad signals at McElhattan, Pa.

Eastbound manifest Ayer

CR 6084 leads a train near Canaseraga on Conrail's Southern Tier on what was once obviously double track.

The Alco era on the Susquehanna was interesting, if not always rewarding. The sight of Alco Centuries on a mainline train was a treat for railfans, but a long journey to encounter them could resul... (more)

Conrail #6082 leads an eastbound freight off the Porter Branch as the westbound Amtrak Lakeshore Limited races by nearing its final destination of Chicago.

No longer used, the sizable yard at the interchange point between the former Jersey Central and the Northampton & Bath is still largely intact in this 1979 view. Today, the line is single-tracked,... (more)

A year and a half into Conrail, locomotives in the new blue scheme were showing up more and more frequently, but solid blue lashups were elusive. Here a near-miss rolls west through Treichlers, Pe... (more)

On an oppressively hot last day of July, a Lehighton-bound local rolls west out of Treichlers, Pennsylvania. Although there is evidence of the multi-track main line that was once here, this portio... (more)

CR 6831 blasts out of the now closed Gallitzin tunnel in a cloud of diesel exhaust with a coal train in tow.