Spring is late to arrive high on the mountain as brand new SD-60I 5630 from the Juniata Locomotive Shop in Altoona leads one of the daily procession of manifests up the mountain grade from Altoona... (more)
The hostler at Conrail’s Bison Yard in Buffalo moves an eclectic 2-1/2 builder lashup through the engine terminal. The second unit may look like an Alco RS3, but it’s all EMD under the hood.
Viewed from the Tilghman Street/Union Boulevard bridge in Allentown, Pennsylvania, an eastbound Conrail train approaches Allentown yard from Lehighton and points beyond. The truss bridge in the ba... (more)
Conrail SD35 6043 began life as Jersey Central 2504 in 1965. For the first seven years of its life, it regularly plied the rails between Jersey City, new Jersey, a... (more)
Having completed its journey over the Hill track through Laureldale, a westbound Conrail manifest joins the former Reading main line alongside the Reading yard. It appears that the train has no wo... (more)