As an eastbound train drifts downgrade toward Altoona, an ex-Penn Central SD40 and an ex-Erie Lackawanna SD45 push a westbound up the last portion of the grade before entering the tunnel at Tunnel... (more)

Conrail at its best, with a freshly-repainted SD50 westbound near MG Tower. This locomotive was rebuilt by NS in 2011 with a 3,000 hp 16-645 prime mover and classified as an SD40E; renumbered to ... (more)

Having completed its descent into the Wyoming Valley, Conrail train ALCG (Allentown – Corning) makes its final approach to Coxton yard. The train is on the former Lehigh Valley main line, and is... (more)

Conrail SD80MACs 4125 and 4100 are eastbound on the Boston line.

Erie-Lackawanna GP35 2556 and 2583 with Penn Central GP38 7905 at Altoona, PA. on October 26, 1976. Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer listed on slide.

CR SD60M no. 5534 rolls an eastbound coal train through Porter, IN on the former NYC mainline on a humid June afternoon.

Westbound ore, pulled by an SD40-2 and two of its four-axle siblings, rolls past a pair of local-service cabooses and the yard office at Conrail’s Abrams yard near King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.... (more)

Streamliners on the Main Line

Arguably the best looking train to travel the PRR main line west of Philadelphia since the more prosperous days of the Pennsy was Conrail’s office c... (more)

Westbound pigs roll along the Susquehanna River on Conrail’s Middle Division at Aqueduct, Pennsylvania.

Back in Service. In late 1988, an up-turn in rail business forced Conrail to pull some GP30 and GP35 units out of storage. One of the re-activated GP30s is shown leading a coal train. ... (more)

The winter of 1985 saw an unusually high amount of ice on the Susquehanna River. Here a westbound Conrail train works its way into Enola Yard as it traverses the partially-frozen waterway on the R... (more)

A pair of Conrail SD50’s works a train of laded hoppers (coke from Bethlehem Steel?) west past the Allentown Yard hump leads.

CR WPAL91 is southbound in the Lehigh Valley on a beautiful fall day, shortly after departing Lehighton.

Six four axle units, from three builders and in three paint schemes, team up to take a manifest west from Altoona, Pennsylvania. During this period, while most trains were predominated by PC black... (more)

Switchers in the Snow. A Conrail SW1500/SW1001 pair are on their way to service a major customer at the end of the ex PRR branch to Devault, Pa. Since this photo was taken, the customer ... (more)