A bluebird July morning in Huntingdon, PA finds a C40-8W and an SD-60 in charge of an eastbound manifest making time down the Juniata River valley. This was highball territory and they really ripp... (more)

Conrail’s westbound American Presidential Lines stack train, TV-301, rounds the sweeping curve at Lanesboro, Pennsylvania. The cars seen in the upper list have just come off of Starrucca Viaduct... (more)

Still displaying the “mating worms” Penn Central logo, a partially-patched Conrail C430 soaks up the morning sun at Mingo Junction, Ohio.

The local Conrail power at Massena, New York is a pair of former Erie Lackawanna U25B’s.

Conrail’s former New York Central engine facilities in Watertown, New York have been deemed to no longer be necessary, and stand abandoned in this March, 1985 view.

Engineer Jim Dundon, Fireman Carl Spencer and Brakeman Jimmy Dolliver on the Norwich local, switching Standard Brand Dog Foods factory in Sherburne, NY. The boxcar shown was full of Agway Big Red ... (more)

With another winter season just about complete, a Conrail flanger waits on a siding in Watertown, New York.

Southbound Conrail tonnage from Montreal thunders through Dekalb Junction, New York. Looking at Google Maps, it appears that the ex-NYC station, the branch to Ogdensburg curving off in the foregro... (more)

CR 6197 passes beneath the westward home signals for MG interlocking with empty Penna. Power & Light hoppers. The position light signals and air line for the electro-pneumatic switches are hallmar... (more)

Landslide!

The Blandon Low Grade bypass of Reading, Pennsylvania runs adjacent to the Berks Products limestone quarry at Temple, Pennsylvania. On June 24, 1984, the wall of the qua... (more)

Rolling westbound through Northampton, Pennsylvania, a Conrail manifest catches the last light of day. The Jersey Central depot shown in more)

A rainy August afternoon over three decades ago finds CR 6477 leading an eastbound manifest past Phoenixville, PA on former Reading Company rails. The old passenger station here provided shelter f... (more)

A Conrail manifest passes the former Jersey Central station at Northampton. Pennsylvania late on a March afternoon.

Early Conrail locomotive repaints were less than consistent with respect to lettering style and placement. Cabooses did not escape the inconsistencies, either, as witnessed by this former PRR N5B ... (more)