Conrail CAOI (Camden, NJ to Oak Island, NJ) rolls through Piscataway on Conrail's 18th birthday with a C39-8/SD40-2 combo leading. Conrail 6007 is one of only 22 C39-8s on the roster. This unit sp... (more)

Conrail’s yard in Lansdale, Pennsylvania served as a staging area for freight traffic on SEPTA’s North Penn, Doylestown, and Stony Creek branches. A local from Abrams Yard near King of Prussia... (more)

Less than a month old, a trio of Conrail C30-7As are seen awaiting their next assignment at the IHB's Blue Island Yard. Note a traincrew's opinion about the new locomotive additions that was draw... (more)

Sometimes a GP38-2 Isn’t Enough

While I don’t recall the exact problem, the crew of a Conrail local switching a readi-mix concrete plant in Bowie, Maryland encountered an issue... (more)

Working inside the wye where Conrail’s Pope’s Creek Secondary meets the Northeast Corridor, a Conrail local switches cars at a readi-mix concrete plant in Bowie, Maryland. Behind the concrete... (more)

A Conrail local on comes around the south leg of the wye to the Pope’s Creek Secondary at Bowie, Maryland. The train has just left the Northeast Corridor, and will switch a premix concrete plant... (more)

A work train from Enola, led by CR 7580, heads towards Marysville, PA in June of 1993. While most of the GP 10's were scrapped, this unit lives on in PA and was repainted in a Pennsy scheme.

Fallen Flags

Evident in this photo of Conrail’s Cement Secondary local are assets that have belonged to five different post-1960 railroad companies that have disappeared since th... (more)

The conductor gives the engineer an indication of how much farther he has to proceed until he makes the hitch. This is Conrail’s Cement Secondary local, and it’s switching the remains of the L... (more)

Conrail’s Cement Secondary local passes a local farm as it approaches Steuben. This job usually had two or three locomotives, but a light weekend as-needed call only warranted a single GP38.

After servicing in Collinwood, this TV train (trailer van) races east on good looking track towards Buffalo, NY and points east. Conrail was starting to rebuild the former PC and other acquired li... (more)

A snow-encrusted TV-204X is holding at the pedestrian crossing just north of CP7 in Bogota. As traffic increased on the River Line, neighbors in this area would complain about fumes and noise fro... (more)

Conrail SENS-9 rolls south past Ridgefield Park station with a typical mixed consist of Conrail and Norfolk Southern power. The lead unit is a rebuilt former Pennsylvania Railroad SD40 (ex-PRR 60... (more)

Running on a Saturday, which was an “as-needed” day, Conrail’s Cement Secondary local makes a run for Bethlehem at Steuben.

An SD38/MT6 slug set rests at the east end of Oak Island Yard. These slug sets were the usual power at Oak Island hump during the last decade of Conrail's existence.