Resting on a quiet Christmas Morning in 1983.

On a misty morning at Niagara Falls, a former Niagara Junction electric switches a pair of fresh per-diem box cars. Soon, the electrics will be gone, and the per-diem boom will implode.

Westbound Conrail tonnage passes through Catasauqua, Pennsylvania on the former Jersey Central main line. Three former Erie Lackawanna work cars, a baggage car and two troop sleepers, are on the h... (more)

Eastbound coal rumbles through Alburtis, Pennsylvania, on Conrail’s former Reading East Penn line. The track in the foreground is the C&F (Catasauqua & Fogelsville branch. The branch, which once... (more)

Harrisburg-bound hoppers pass the yard in Reading, Pennsylvania. Normally, this train would be on the Reading Belt Line, but a landslide has taken the Blandon Low Grade out of service, and all All... (more)

A Conrail N7A bay window caboose brings up the markers on a westbound manifest at Duncannon, Pennsylvania.

One of the rear end crew enjoys the view from the caboose of a westbound grain train on a pleasant October morning. As the train approaches Horseshoe Curve, he’s probably happy that he isn’t s... (more)

With the Delaware Water Gap looming in the background, the crew of Conrail train UPS continues to the Portland Diner to get a bite to eat. I was out with a friend, and we decided to follow UPS whe... (more)

The crew of Conrail train UPS has dropped their train of coal at Metropolitan Edison’s Portland Generating Station, seen in the distance, and is now headed for the Portland Diner to get a bite t... (more)

A Conrail Bangor & Portland local spends the weekend at Portland, Pennsylvania. The tall stack at the extreme right is part of Metropolitan Edison’s Portland Generating Station.

With the power from the last through train over Pocono Summit on a siding in Conrail’s small yard in Portland, Pennsylvania, the crew of the Bangor local runs between that power and its cars. Th... (more)

End of the Pocono Mountain Route

The last power to bring cars to Conrail’s Bangor & Portland subdivision from Scranton lays over next to the scale track in Portland, Pennsylvania... (more)