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.

Two Conrail SD40’s switch the Bethlehem Steel coke works between Bethlehem and Hellertown, Pennsylvania. Across the tracks and to the left was a station known as Didier.

A six-month-old Conrail C39-8 and an SD50 have arrived at Saucon Creek with a train, and are now waiting by the yard office until an outbound train is ready.

Conrail’s Saucon Drill is working in a sea of Bethlehem Steel coke hoppers in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The second unit is one of thirteen ex-New York Central GP20’s on the roster making an unu... (more)

"The 101st Time"

Conrail's SK-03 has just picked up the first arrival of the latest order of ALP45 locomotives for New Jersey Transit. The locomotive will be delivered to Center ... (more)

Westbound empty hoppers have just left Altoona, Pennsylvania for the coal fields of western Pennsylvania. A Conrail GP40-2/SD40-2 combo is working hard to get to Cresson.

Presumably, in an effort to reduce team tensions and establish a corporate identity some corporate genius decided to splash CR on everything, taking an already ratty looking operation into a new l... (more)