The drip strip over the cab window and the AAR trucks indicate that this Conrail C430 is of Reading lineage, as opposed to the former New York Central units, which had Alco’s Hi-Ad trucks. Conrail... (more)
Most of Conrail’s big Alcos never saw that paint shop for a coat of blue paint. Most of its ex-PC SD40-2’s were quickly transformed to its new corporate image. Here a C636 and a C630 working out ... (more)
A visit to Mingo Junction in the late 1970’s was usually accompanied with expectations of seeing big Alco’s, but a Cleveland Electric GP38-2 and a matched set of Conrail SD45-2’s were not bad find... (more)