The passenger cars on the left belong to the Railroader's Memorial Museum.
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)
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.
Tom Golden photo.
Single-unit trains on the Conrail main west of Altoona were not a common occurrence. Here a lone SD50 with an empty CWR train drops into Altoona at Slope.
A Conrail SW900 assists an Amtrak train through 21st Street Interlocking. Tom Golden photo.
CR 7726 leads the UT-41 north past the crossing in Stittville, NY, as a young railfan looks on.
A pair of Conrail Quality C40-8Ws lead ML403 north across Overpeck Creek on a fine morning along the River Line.
The eastbound Pennsylvanian thunders through Edison Station on its last legs to New York. A stark mix of clouds helps to illuminate the details of the scene on this cold and blustery January afte... (more)
