Two E44s dressed in Conrail Blue are long-hood forward, westbound on the Enola Branch. Note the welded rail aside No. 1 Track, ready for installation. No. 4419 was built by GE for the PRR in Sep... (more)

Hard at Work. With the summit only a couple of miles away, an eastbound intermodal is working as hard as it can to crest the West Slope of the Allegheny Mountains. Soon the toughest part of... (more)

Lend some help? A early morning helper set heads up the East Slope approaching the Gallitzin Tunnels. This set would continue over to Cresson where it would be available to help out an east... (more)

The progression of Conrail’s power for high speed intermodal service is seen in this photo of train Mail-9.The newest power is represented by two month-old B40-8’s, followed by one of the B36-... (more)

An unusual mirror-image GP15-1/GP10/GP10/GP15-1 lashup leads Conrail train ALOI (Allentown – Oak Island) eastward across the Delaware River at Phillipsburg, NJ.

A pair of E-44s, still in their Penn Central paint scheme, head east under the 1930-built Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge. The engineer is blowing the 3-chime horn for the multiple grade crossings i... (more)

An eastbound intermodal train is entering Pitcairn Yard as the coal drag behind it waits for a crew change.

Conrail’s wide-nose invasion has begun, and it was started by the GE C40-8W, which would eventually fill 235 spots on the CR roster. Here one-year-old 6076 leads an eastbound train through Lilly... (more)

CR 9929, an Alco RS-3M (re-built with EMD power) handles switching duties at Conrail's Altoona yard in the company of much newer, but stored former Erie-Lackawanna SD45-2s. The venerable RS-3M was... (more)

Tripleheaded E-33s are slowing to negotiate the eastbound switch at Port Interlocking. The now-preserved CR 4604 (as VGN 135 in Roanoke) is leading; this locomotive was built in November, 1956 as... (more)

A trainload of western Pennsylvania coal is headed into Enola yard. Lead B23-7 #1933 would soon be assigned to the Conrail track geometry train.

Conrail is in the midst of rebuilding their Enola Branch as one of their relatively rare diesels set up for long-hood forward operation leads a train west through Port Interlocking. The 2757 was ... (more)

Westbound tripleheaded E44s climb the grade off the Port Road to switch onto the Enola Branch. Today, the Enola Branch is gone east of here, and a public rail trail parking area is located about ... (more)

The 4835 and 4868 are hauling an eastbound manifest through Columbia as their engineer yanks the horn cord for Walnut and Locust Streets. The silver piping in the foreground carried compressed ai... (more)

"Old Rivets" in her US Bicentennial dress is tripleheading eastbound, with all units front-pans up. (Standard PRR-PC-CR practice for Gs was to run with the rear pantographs up, in case ... (more)