Westbound pigs roll along the Susquehanna River on Conrail’s Middle Division at Aqueduct, Pennsylvania.

Westbound hoppers rattle the windows of Conrail’s former PRR depot at Duncannon, PA.

An eastbound Conrail manifest rolls past the one-time site of the Lehigh Valley’s Calypso Yard in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

A pair of former Erie-Lackawanna SD45-2’s give a shove to a westbound train on its way to Horseshoe Curve.

Three Builders, Three Decades

Locomotives of three different manufacturers from three different decades pass each other at the west end of Conrail’s Allentown, Pennsylvania yard.... (more)

A Conrail Allentown yard job works the west end of the yard as morning fog lingers in the Lehigh River Valley. With Penn Central roots, Conrail’s fleet of nineteen U23C’s seemed to keep their ... (more)

CR 5023, a B23-7 has the lead on two Dash 8-40Bs handling a coil train from the Burns Harbor area through Porter, IN on its way east. A CP trackage rights train waits its turn to divert off the CR... (more)

One of Conrail's ten GE C32-8s and a pair of C30-7As team up on the point of piggyback train TV-9 out of Beacon Park Yard in Boston as it swings through Weston, MA, on the former Boston & Albany.

Helper Set

Due to a gas leak near its Chicago Line, Conrail had to temporarily divert traffic along the IHB's mainline. In this scene, a GP40-2 leads a pair of GEs on an eastbound intermodal train as it pou... (more)

An freight rolls out of the setting sun on its eastbound journey at Wegley, Pa.

A westbound Conrail ore train rolls past the abandoned yard along the former Reading main line at Woodlane, Pennsylvania. The power combination of a B23-7 and a C30-7A is somewhat unusual.

Doubleheaded GG-1s with 42-year old No. 4821 in the lead are northbound just south of Aberdeen's old PRR station. The 4821 was built by Baldwin/PRR/Westinghouse in May, 1935. 2nd unit No. 4864 w... (more)

The 2nd-to-last E-44 (built July, 1963) heads west on the Enola Branch, with a friendly wave from the fireman. Note the graffiti-free manifest trailing behind. Conrail will rebuild this line a y... (more)

In the last year of GG1-powered freight operations, the 4886 rolls south along the driftwood-littered Port Road. No. 4886 was built for the PRR in March of 1939 by Altoona-GE, 40 years prior to t... (more)