A rare Conrail U36B, one of just four on the roster, heads up a U33B and a GP40 on an empty coal train passing the Boston & Maine's Ayer, MA, tower. Coal trains serving a power plant at Bow, NH, o... (more)

At dusk, Conrail trailer train TV-5 departs Boston's Beacon Park Yard for the west behind a quartet of GP40-2s. CSX closed this yard in 2012 under pressure from real estate developers and in 2020 ... (more)

On a misty spring morning, a short Conrail freight behind a smoking SD35, a U25B, and a deadheading switcher rolls west through Wellesley Farms, MA, as an MBTA Framingham-Boston commuter train rec... (more)

Just a couple months into Conrail, train BOEL (Boston-Elkhart) out of Beacon Park Yard follows Amtrak's Lake Shore west on the former Boston & Albany, leaning into the curve at Wellesley Farms, MA... (more)

Model railroaders will appreciate the authentic "weathering" on this locomotive! EMD re-engined RS3M 9981 posed at Conrail's engine terminal in Hartford, CT. It's on home rails, having b... (more)

Led by a U33C and two other six-axle GEs, Conrail train TV-9 accelerates west through Weston, MA, on the former Boston & Albany. In the early 1980s the Sunday edition of TV-9, like this one, was l... (more)

A pair of ex-PRR GP9s head up Conrail freight NHDA (New Haven/Cedar Hill to Danbury, CT) westbound under the wires at Milford, CT.

Conrail's Naugatuck Valley local freight behind RS3M 9946 is parked outside the station at Derby, CT, while the crew takes a lunch break. These EMD re-engined RS3s were common local freight power ... (more)

Led by an SD45 and a mate, Conrail train NHSE (New Haven/Cedar Hill to Selkirk) comes off the ex-NH Springfield Line onto the former Boston & Albany at Springfield, MA. Here the train will back ac... (more)

Conrail train TV-9 (Boston-Chicago) rolls west through Weston, MA, behind the usual GE trio, today a pair of GE C30-7s and a C32-8. Some mixed freight has been included ahead of the trailers.

With a mix of EMD and GE power led by a PC GP38, Conrail train SENH (Selkirk to Cedar Hill via Beacon, NY, and Danbury, CT) rolls through the station at Milford, CT. This was the last heavy road f... (more)

A U33C and two U30Cs growl west through Natick, MA, on the former Boston & Albany with a Selkirk-bound Conrail freight out of Boston. Conrail was just over a year old and the paint shop had a lot ... (more)

Conrail piggyback train TV-6 has nearly completed its run from Indianapolis to Boston as it pulls down the lead into Beacon Park Yard behind a C30-7 and two EMDs.

Conrail GP9 7508 leads a short work train through the station at Bridgeport, CT, on a spring day. CR 7508 was a former New York Central passenger unit and it later became Metro North 750.

Conrail train TV-9 (Boston-Chicago) kicks up snow as it swings through the curve at the former Riverside station location in Newton, MA, on a winter morning. C30-7A 6557 leads the usual trio of bi... (more)