When Conrail was formed, six axle Centuries from the Reading and the Lehigh Valley were sent west to join their Penn Central counterparts in western Pennsylvania/eastern Ohio. Here an ex-LV C628 a... (more)

The conductor is a nano-second away from receiving orders, as his train heads west on the Chicago Line in 1977.

Conrail's bicentennial painted GG-1 leads an Amtrak train east out of the terminal Harrisburg. This Kodachrome was processed in October 1976. Any information on this train would be appreciated!

The Conrail heritage unit leads a string of oil cans up Carney Hill.

ELS #400 sits stripped and forgotten on the sight of the former Harnischfeger crane plant. Hasselblad 500C/M, Velvia 50.

Carrying an unfathomable amount of Tropicana orange juice, the five-day-a-week Bradenton, FL to Jersey City, NJ orange juice train passes the University of Pennsylvania's Franklin Field as it trav... (more)

Conrail's track geometry train sails east through Bailey on the Middle Division.

A pair of clean GP10's switch the west end of Enola yard. They look far better than the NS power currently performing the same tasks.

The Conrail office car train passes the still-operating Bethlehem Steel complex on a crisp December morning.

Over eight years after the formation of Conrail, patched units were still floating around, including this one leading a trainload of coal bound for the Bethlehem Steel coke works up the South Beth... (more)

In 1986, Conrail repurposed the site of the former Lehigh Valley Calypso Yard and built a new intermodal site, the Allentown Trailvan Facility. Here an Oak Island-bound train sets off a single TOF... (more)

A couple bricks in the pit - two GE E44s await their next assignment in Meadows Yard in Kearny. This area was known as the pit and soil there was always black, but with poisonous looking rainbows ... (more)

A quartet of SW1500's lay over for the weekend at Earnest yard. Locals from Earnest served customers on the Trenton Cutoff and the remnants of the PRR Schuylkill branch.

Bethlehem Kaleidoscope 2 - During Conrail's early years, many foreign visitors spent time in Bethlehem mingling with the local power. Usually they were leased or run-through units. Here is a lease... (more)

Checking in with the tower. These locomotives were serviced at Clyde Diesel Shop and are likely ready to take some cars back south down the IHB.