In April of 1983, Conrail 9232, an EMD NW-2, is working for its third owner. It was originally built in 1949 as Erie 425, and then became the Erie Lackawanna 425. Shown here, working the QD yard j... (more)

Before being rebuilt, and still wearing its Pennsylvania Railroad station signs, the station at Lewistown, Pennsylvania bears witness to the passing of the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Blue U... (more)

Empty hoppers roll west over Conrail’s Middle Division at Mifflin, Pennsylvania. Two B23-7’s will get the train to Altoona, but more power will be needed to get them around Horseshoe Curve.

Every weekend, Conrail gathered locomotives along the former Reading tracks serving Pennsylvania’s anthracite regions (now R&N), and sent them to Enola for servicing. The westbound move is seen ... (more)

It is September 1981 and the local section crew is assisting the crew of Train UT-52 with the brewery switch on Schuyler Street in Utica, NY. This is on the ex-Erie Lackawanna, a year before the N... (more)

After a Conrail Buffalo Line train crept up to a red signal, the dispatcher finally gave it the railroad, and the crew is wasting no time getting up to track speed.

With the rear of its train still on the Rockville Bridge, a Conrail manifest begins its journey over the Buffalo line just north of Rockville, Pennsylvania.

Conrail had a daily run-through manifest between Enola, Pennsylvania and Hagerstown, Maryland with the Chessie System, and later CSX. Here the westbound train has just departed Enola, crossing the... (more)

Conrail train CIR-101, the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Blue Unit, passes the Seventh Street parking garage in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

On a cold moody afternoon in the Taconic Hills of Columbia County, a 90 car Framingham bound Conrail freight approaches the State Line on its journey into New England. The lead SD80MAC compliment... (more)

After a pre-dawn departure from Philadelphia, the 1992 edition of the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Blue Unit train wakes up Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania.