One of Conrail’s former Erie/EL E8’s escaped the fate of its roster mates, who gave up their prime movers to the DeWitt Geep RS3 re-engine program. Shortly after the consolidation, Conrail’... (more)

Sometimes a GP38-2 Isn’t Enough

While I don’t recall the exact problem, the crew of a Conrail local switching a readi-mix concrete plant in Bowie, Maryland encountered an issue... (more)

A pair of Conrail EMDs head south along the IHB's Kankakee Line as they transition from home rails at Indiana Harbor CP502 with the massive Inland Steel plant looming in the background. Tom Golde... (more)

CR 6084 skirts the Canisteo River on the Southern Tier near Addison, NY in June of 1993. The work train is removing portions of the double track here.

Keep it Moving with Conrail

That’s the slogan added to the long hood of Conrail B23-7 1980, seen here putting its money where its mouth is. The GE with one-of-a-kind paint is lea... (more)

Spring is late to arrive high on the mountain as brand new SD-60I 5630 from the Juniata Locomotive Shop in Altoona leads one of the daily procession of manifests up the mountain grade from Altoona... (more)

The hostler at Conrail’s Bison Yard in Buffalo moves an eclectic 2-1/2 builder lashup through the engine terminal. The second unit may look like an Alco RS3, but it’s all EMD under the hood.

The hills of north Georgia overlook a ribbon of jointed steel rail that negotiates the landscape formerly dominated by the Southern Railway. A Hartwell Railroad southbound glides out of Toccoa beh... (more)

Westbound empty hoppers roll through Catasauqua, Pennsylvania on the former CNJ main line. I didn’t hear the symbol of this train, but I am inclined to think that the hoppers are headed to Hazle... (more)

Let it snow! Just after being re-assigned to CNW's Cleveland sales office, I ventured over to see the famous former NYC Collinwood facilities. I was rewarded with an eclectic group of pre-Conrail ... (more)

One of my personal favorite locomotives on the Hartwell Railroad roster is this well worn and rusted former CONRAIL GP38. Here it is seen pulling a small cut of cars out of a storage track in Toc... (more)

Ahhh, ignorance is bliss. At this point in my railfanning, I am 100% into shortlines. Any Class 1 action is caught on the side during shortline trips. And here is a classic example. While rail... (more)

Helpers push Conrail train UPS, laden with coal for the Portland Generating Station, through Bangor, Pennsylvania. The view is from the West Messinger Street bridge, known locally as “the viaduc... (more)

Jersey bound, a Conrail TV train traverses the junction from the East Penn line to the former Lehigh Valley main line at East Penn Junction. In the background are the former Reading bridge over th... (more)

An eastbound container train waits for a signal at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. This is just west of the Hill-to-Hill bridge, at the one-time location of the Lehigh Valley’s Calypso Yard. After the ... (more)