Five 38-series GP’s and a GP40 lead Conrail train WJAL-1 up the grade on the Bangor & Portland Division in East Bangor, Pennsylvania. Before symbol UPS was instituted for Portland Generating Sta... (more)

A pair of GE-built E44 electrics glide south through Rahway, New Jersey, with a Conrail freight. A deadheading diesel switcher is tucked behind the ex-PRR motors.

Over the Hill

A landslide that closed Conrail’s Blandon Low Grade between Blandon and Belt Line Junction, Pennsylvania caused a hasty reactivation of the “Hill Track”, more f... (more)

Like Old Times

Conrail MP15’s 9629 and 9630 lead local WHRE-10 onto the Reading & Columbia Branch at Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania. The EMD’s, former Reading 2779 and 2780, resp... (more)

Conrail train Mail-9 rolls west past the station sign at Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania. The new B40-8’s were dominating the mail trains by this time, but this edition still had a combination of B... (more)

Bygone days on the old NEC- my then 15-year old cousin is hanging out with me down by the depot as a northbound E44-powered freight rolls by.

Bound for Harrisburg, a westbound empty hopper train from Philadelphia rolls through West Reading, Pennsylvania on the Reading Belt Line. Crossing over Penn Avenue, the train is running left hande... (more)

Conrail train ALCG (Allentown – Corning) has crested the grade at Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, and begins its descent into the Wyoming Valley.

Westbound Conrail train ALCG (Allentown – Corning) passes the parking lot of the Acme supermarket in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. The Lehigh Valley’s Mauch Chunk station was located in this area... (more)

An eastbound E-44 running long-hood forward is awaiting clearance to proceed, near CP PORT.

Two westbound E-44s with a sister dead-in-tow are climbing the short, sharp grade from the Port Road to the Enola Branch. It's almost startling to see the graffiti-free boxcars of 40 years ago. ... (more)

Roadrailers heading north through the Shenandoah Valley

Conrail GE C40-8 6037 at Buffalo, New York.

Spring has bought lush green foliage back to the hills around the Susquehanna River as a westbound Conrail COFC train rolls through Aqueduct, Pennsylvania.

An ex Reading SW 1001 is on a cut at Reading's Darby Creek Yard, just south of the Philadelphia International Airport.