Early Conrail action, with a U-Boat smoking up the catenary in Columbia, PA, westbound on the old PRR Atglen and Susquehanna Branch. No. 2797 was built by GE for Conrail in June 1977.

A fine October day spent on the mountain west of Altoona was the best of all possible worlds - 72 degrees, breezy and sunny. There was a constant procession of traffic, primarily manifests, as mos... (more)

The now-preserved GG-1 No. 4859, as seen in the Rutherford scrap line alongside the old Reading Lines steam era coal dock. The 4859 was built by Altoona/GE in December, 1937 and can now be seen o... (more)

Pan view of a westbound Conrail GP40-2 at the site of the old PRR yard at Denholm. No. 3279 was built in December 1973 as the Reading Lines No. 3675.

The crew of Conrail local WJAL-18 has dropped its train at Dover, New Jersey, and is passing a parked NJT train heading to the former DL&W station. After they exchange paperwork with the operator,... (more)

Eastbound Cleveland to Mingo Jct Ore Train

Not only the can opener, but also the original Conrail reporting marks are still being displayed on this tired caboose now assumed to be owned by CSX.

Working the east end of Conrail's, (PC/PRR) Motor Yard on the Cleveland Line.

A pair of patched forty-foot Conrail boxcars stand on a siding in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. These cars are wearing two of the Reading Company’s final paint schemes.

Symbol BAPI4 (Baltimore-Conway) is just getting started into the long grade to Gallitzin as it passes Brickyard Crossing. Two SD40 "snappers" are coupled ahead of the Dash8 road power an... (more)

It's a humid July evening as westbound CAPI slowly approaches the derailment scene shown in photo no. 787832. Two SD40-2 "snappers" are coupled ahead of the road power. A couple gondolas... (more)

Eastbound PIBE derailed in Altoona the morning of July 13, 1995, tearing up railroad in the process to the extent that traffic was shut off for most of the day. By evening a few trains were slowly... (more)