Helper set.
In helper service- At this time Conrail was using pairs of ex-EL SD45-2s in helper service. CR 6654 was ex-EL 3669 and it's paired with CR 6666, ex-EL 3681.
A pair of former Erie-Lackawanna SD45-2’s give a shove to a westbound train on its way to Horseshoe Curve.
A Conrail manifest with two SD45-2’s and a long consist rolls west through South Fork, Pennsylvania on an autumn day in 1984.
Flexicoil HT-C's bite into the rails as 7200 h.p. leans into the ex-PRR N-5 caboose.
SD45-2 helper set 6654/6661 leads a westbound intemodal with B36-7's 5003/5021/5037 as base power over Big Viaduct, west of South Fork, PA.
helpers ready to shove