The town clock has just tolled 9am as a pair of Conrail's lovely SD-80MACs, the 4110 and 4114, highball through town with 159 cars. The former Hunt Block and Interlocking Station once housed a US&... (more)

Two big GE's lead their train into Conway Yard.

Westbound coal train waits for a crew change in Wall, PA. The fresh crew will take the train south down the Mon-Line to be loaded in the coal fields of Southwestern Pennsylvania.

One Conrail's battleship gray "Ballast Units" leads a coal train west. There were only 10 C32-8's on Conrail's roster and all of them were painted in this scheme in the spring of 97'.

With everything but the kitchen sink - 4 Dash-8s, SD-50, GP-40, and a new C40-9W in primer - Harrisburg to Chicago symbol Mail 9H accelerates through the Lewistown narrows at CP Hawstone. Fuji Ast... (more)

A pair of Conrail EMDs head south along the IHB's Kankakee Line as they transition from home rails at Indiana Harbor CP502 with the massive Inland Steel plant looming in the background. Tom Golde... (more)

One of Conrail's new SD50s has been delivered to the Indiana Harbor Belt's Blue Island Yard and is working its way toward its outbound train. Tom Golden photo.

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)

CR GP9 7588 with the help of slug MT4 no. 1020 waits for its next assignment at their Collinwood Yard on Cleveland's east side in March 1981. CR 7588 was originally PRR 7030, and 1020 was built as... (more)

CR 6441, an SD40-2 and a GP40-2 power an eastbound hotshot that has arrived at the "launching pad", a quick engine servicing facility that allowed hot trains to remain intact for re-fuel... (more)

A Conrail freight train led by a long-hood front U23B (so it's facing forward believe it or not, these units were known as "Long Snauters") passes through Princeton Junction on April Fool's Day 19... (more)

Working up the Allegheny grade with 26 cars and no push, Mail 3 leans into the reverse curve between the 2455 signals and Bennington; one of 29 train movements in eight hours.

On a warm and breezy October afternoon the crew is enjoying the air as their pair of SD50s, the 6778 and 6782, bring the 135 cars of symbol ALEL-0 through the curves of the Allegrippus between MG ... (more)

An ex-Penn Central Geep leads a 7-engine lashup on an eastbound freight passing by the snowy 16th Street yard. A lot has changed here in 20+ years; the old Reading signal is gone, the yard is emp... (more)

CR 6084 skirts the Canisteo River on the Southern Tier near Addison, NY in June of 1993. The work train is removing portions of the double track here.