Two westbound E-44s with a sister dead-in-tow are climbing the short, sharp grade from the Port Road to the Enola Branch. It's almost startling to see the graffiti-free boxcars of 40 years ago. ... (more)

The 2nd-to-last E-44 (built July, 1963) heads west on the Enola Branch, with a friendly wave from the fireman. Note the graffiti-free manifest trailing behind. Conrail will rebuild this line a y... (more)

In the last year of GG1-powered freight operations, the 4886 rolls south along the driftwood-littered Port Road. No. 4886 was built for the PRR in March of 1939 by Altoona-GE, 40 years prior to t... (more)

Two Penn Central E-44s with sand-encrusted trucks pull a westbound mineral train into the setting sun along the Enola Branch.

An eastbound E44-powered Conrail freight skirts the river hills along Water Street. I can vividly remember my grandparents taking me at age 6 to a New Year's Eve 1965 service at the Methodist chu... (more)

Heavy Conrail action at PORT, with an eastbound ex-PRR GP30 passing a Central Soya unit train coming west off the Port Road. This was a tremendous location in the 1970s, with Conrail freights con... (more)

With a friendly wave from the engineer, an ex-PRR SD35 heads up an intermodal freight, passing by a typical electro-pneumatic interlocking. Note the PC Deepwater green block station on the left, ... (more)

Doubleheaded GG-1s round the bend at the south end of the Boro, with the lead unit still displaying a PRR solid stripe. Note the newly-installed welded rail along the bucolic Atglen & Susquehanna... (more)

The Penn Central 4436 and a sister lead an eastbound manifest through the electro-pneumatic interlocking at CP PORT, where the Port Road diverged from the Atglen & Susquehanna. Conrail's freight ... (more)

Elephant-style E-44s lead a grain train off the Port Road Branch, westbound. No. 4404 was built by GE for the PRR in January, 1961.

E-44 No. 4410 leads a Truc-Train eastbound on the recently-rebuilt Enola Branch in the summer of 1978. No. 4410 was built by GE for the PRR in May, 1961.

A very bad day for a Penn Central U25C- talk about smoking up the catenary! Built by GE in December 1965 for the PRR, the 6511 would survive into the Conrail era, eventually renumbered as 6811.

Two E-33s are eastbound under the intricate catenary where the westbound Port Road Branch tied into the now-abandoned Atglen & Susquehanna Branch. Note that the eastbound main is half-stick half-... (more)

E-44 No. 4444, still in its Penn Central paint scheme, is in the long-hood forward mode, pulling a grain train eastbound. My Washington Boro cousin's neighbor's boy has ridden his bike to the cro... (more)

Four GG-1s are pulling a westbound Trail-Van train along the weed-choked Atglen & Susquehanna Branch. It was very rare to see more than two GG-1s on a freight; perhaps this was a power move to Ha... (more)