New Years Eve 1988, with two Conrail freights meeting on Rockville Bridge. Note the alignment of the original bridge to the right of the signal bridge.

Chuffing up to the Dalton Hinsdale town line on a beautiful, dramatic October morning with a heavy eastbound on the tough 1.4% grade. During this time the rare 10 unit order of 'camels' C32-8s ... (more)

CR 6571 passes Tower BE in Berea, OH in June of 1993.

Two Penn Central E-44s are leading an eastbound Truc-Train by the signal next to the parking lot of the Washington Boro United Methodist Church.

One-month-old Conrail C39-8 6009 leads an eastbound train through Geissingers, Pennsylvania. Geissingers is just east of East Penn Junction on the former Lehigh Valley main line.

A very early Conrail mixed freight descends the mountain grade east towards Altoona as a westbound train with helpers climbs upgrade in the distance.

A westbound Trailer Van train climbs the mountain, just 10 days into Conrail ownership of the railroad.

Two SD50’s lead a westbound manifest up the ruling grade on the Southern Tier line at McClure, New York. McClure is about halfway between Deposit and Gulf Summit.

Double-stack trains are an integral part of today’s railroad scene, but they were cutting edge in the mid-1980’s. Most west-coast and southeastern ports were served by rail lines that could ac... (more)

A westbound Conrail train, most likely OIBU (Oak Island – Buffalo), nears the top of the grade at Gulf Summit, New York.

A hazy September day finds four 40-series EMD’s leading a train past the yard in Reading, Pennsylvania. The train’s routing through town instead of on the Belt Line indicates that there are pr... (more)

Over the Hill

A landslide that closed Conrail’s Blandon Low Grade between Blandon and Belt Line Junction, Pennsylvania caused a hasty reactivation of the “Hill Track”, more f... (more)

Conrail train Mail-9 rolls west past the station sign at Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania. The new B40-8’s were dominating the mail trains by this time, but this edition still had a combination of B... (more)

Big Boats on the Star

One of the staples of Allentown-area train operations before Conrail was Reading train HB8. Operating from Harrisburg (Rutherford) to Bethlehem (actual... (more)

Powered by six EMD’s, a westbound Conrail manifest rolls through the Pennsylvania farmland approaching Titus. Getting a train here was challenging, as the Reading Belt Line was usually eschewed ... (more)