A coal train lead by two of Conrail's unique C30-7A sits waiting for clearance to go from the Pittsburgh Line through Wing Interlocking to take the Port Perry Branch and head south down the Mon Li... (more)

A westbound auto rack train exits Wing Interlocking as it rounds the bend in in front of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company.

MKT line up of GP38's and a GP40 at Fort Worth, Texas. The second unit, still in Conrail paint and number. An original Kodachrome slide from my collection.

Conrail SD60 #6816 and B36-7 #5045 are departing the yard in Blue Island, IL at the same time in November of 1986 while a third train will leave when they clear.

A blue gem lies hidden within the vastness of CSX's Waycross Shop facilities, more specifically the Locomotive Specialist Group shop complex. CSXT 7136 was retired nearly a decade ago, and has sat... (more)

Serenade in blue: The distant roar of power steadily becomes louder as a heavy westbound manifest works up the grade. Coming out of Scotch Run curve and passing MP 241 the sound is overwhelming an... (more)

One of the impressive locations along Conrail's ascent of the Alleghenies is MG Interlocking at MP243.4. Westbounds struggling up the mountain could be heard way down in the valley, their sound fa... (more)

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)

Factory fresh 'Conrail Quality' GE C40-8W units have been assigned to a Union Pacific's Wattis Plateau, Utah to Long Beach, California export coal train at Provo Yard on January 25, 1995. The trio... (more)

A pair of light SD50’s crosses the Schuylkill River Viaduct in the West Falls section of Philadelphia. The stone arch structure was built by Reading Company predecessor Philadelphia & Reading Ra... (more)

Philadelphia-bound hoppers roll eastbound through Belmont on the former Reading main line. The road on the hill above the train is the Schuylkill Expressway, sometimes known as the world’s longe... (more)

Conrail CAOI (Camden, NJ to Oak Island, NJ) rolls through Piscataway on Conrail's 18th birthday with a C39-8/SD40-2 combo leading. Conrail 6007 is one of only 22 C39-8s on the roster. This unit sp... (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)

Fallen Flags

Evident in this photo of Conrail’s Cement Secondary local are assets that have belonged to five different post-1960 railroad companies that have disappeared since th... (more)

A snow-encrusted TV-204X is holding at the pedestrian crossing just north of CP7 in Bogota. As traffic increased on the River Line, neighbors in this area would complain about fumes and noise fro... (more)