Conrail purchased sixty B36-7’s from General Electric in 1983. The GE’s were immediately placed into service as the motive power of choice for Conrail’s high-speed Trailer Van intermodal ser... (more)

A pair of light SD50’s crosses the Schuylkill River Viaduct in the West Falls section of Philadelphia. The stone arch structure was built by Reading Company predecessor Philadelphia & Reading Ra... (more)

The lineup on the ready track in Bethlehem includes a Paducah GP10 and a newly rebuilt MT4 slug, both on their way to assignments in North Jersey. The MT4 was previously Penn Central RS11 7653, a... (more)

An eastbound Conrail manifest rolls past the site of the Lehigh Valley’s Calypso Yard in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The need for Calypso was eliminated when the Jersey Central pulled out of Pennsy... (more)

Doubleheaded GG-1s round the bend at the south end of the Boro, with the lead unit still displaying a PRR solid stripe. Note the newly-installed welded rail along the bucolic Atglen & Susquehanna... (more)

Elephant-style E-44s lead a grain train off the Port Road Branch, westbound. No. 4404 was built by GE for the PRR in January, 1961.

Early era Conrail heads west through Calumet City Illinois in 1977.

Bell-bottom pants and gray, dusty GG-1s; two icons of the mid-1970s. We're standing on the old Cly station platform waiting on the American Freedom Train, which is bringing the general public tra... (more)

A single GP40-2 leads a short westbound freight by the row homes along Scull Street. In 1980, when this photo was taken, track speed was 25 mph and trains sounded their bell only; it was a "... (more)

CR 5549 brings an eastbound freight under the signals on the west side of LaPorte, in November of 1998. My wife is from LaPorte and I always managed to shoot a few trains when we would visit there... (more)

In an era before double stacks, a freshly painted B36-7 teams with an SD40-2 to roll a westbound COFC train through Marysville, Pennsylvania. The eastbound and westbound tracks are grade=separated... (more)

Sunset for the code line as two Conrail EMDs head east alongside the old Reading Railroad communication/signal wires, with the late winter sun highlighting the clear glass insulators. I think mos... (more)

Conrail has become a class act by 1993, as attested to by this coil train racing east through Porter, IN behind an SD50/SD40-2/SD60M combo. Porter has been a favorite train watching location for y... (more)

Dusty E-44s 4433 and 4456 power a northbound mineral train past the classic old PRR gooseneck lamps at Aberdeen. Conrail is only two months old, and some units have already been painted with the ... (more)

The fireman's long locks are catching the breeze as a westbound manifest parallels Water Street on the Enola Branch. Conrail is in its 2nd month, and the grimy Penn Central freight electrics only... (more)