The Conrail heritage works the east end of Iowa Interstate's Silvis Yard. The unit ran through on a coal train to Cedar Rapids, IA and is being held on the property until the empties are returned... (more)

Sparkill Wye
Power for Conrail NB-51 runs around the Sparkill Wye with their N8B caboose in tow. The track immediately behind the GP38 was the single Sparkill Yard track. The two track... (more)

You can see the old faded NYC stripe showing through on 1847. This train is passing by a abandon PRR yard called Kinsman I believe.

Conrail Almost forty years ago on April 1st 1976 the Consolidated Railroad Corporation (Conrail) commenced operations and began returning reliable rail service back to the Northeast. Th... (more)

The Conrail heritage unit is leading westbound out of Toledo on the former Conrail Chicago line by the former Nasby tower.

On a very rainy April day, an eastbound Conrail freight waits for a westbound D&H train to pass. The D&H train is lead by three GP39-2's, while the CR train is powered by a typical "dog's breakfas... (more)

At the time I saw it come into view, I was more excited to see the Conrail leader than the Santa Fe Dash 8. Amazingly, you can still see Santa Fe units as all of the originally painted Conrail uni... (more)

"Conrail Quality visits Dairy Queen"

The weekly Shared Assets job to Staley eases past Dairy Queen with one of the last remaining Conrail blue units on NS's active roster. Whi... (more)

Lehighton Bicentennials 5 - Arriving in Lehighton, looking for an Erie-Lackawanna bicentennial unit in helper service, I instead found an eastbound train lead by a D&H bicentennial unit stopping f... (more)

For "Work Train Service Only" on the former New York Central Chicago Line in 1978.

CR 3374 leads a northbound Wisconsin Central freight past the wig wags at Van Dyne, WI. This looks more like Ohio or Indiana than Wisconsin, and the trackage has seen a number of ownership changes... (more)

A GP38 and three C30-7's lead Conrail freight ALCG (Allentown - Corning) westbound through the Lehigh Narrows. Viewed from the Flagstaff Mountain overlook, the train is on the Lehigh Valley side o... (more)

Still looking like it has that "new locomotive smell", one of Conrail's early wide cabs enters Belt Line Junction off of the Reading Low Grade. Wide cabs were a novelty at the time, but ... (more)

In order to gain access to trackage rights on the Jersey Central, the Lehigh and Hudson River had to build a bridge over the Delaware River between Phillipsburg, NJ, and Easton, PA. This connector... (more)