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)

Less than a month old, a trio of Conrail C30-7As are seen awaiting their next assignment at the IHB's Blue Island Yard. Note a traincrew's opinion about the new locomotive additions that was draw... (more)

A quarry collapse that severed the Blandon Low Grade forced Conrail to reopen the Hill Track between Reading and Blandon. Here westbound empties enter the Hill Track at Blandon.

After Conrail took delivery of fifty C30-7A’s in 1984, Allentown became the home for about a half-dozen of them. Here one of them switches the west end of the yard.