Push Up, Drift Down

Helpers move in both directions on Conrail’s main line at Bennington Curve, Pennsylvania. An SD45/SD40 pair are assisting a westbound auto parts train on Trac... (more)

An eastbound Conrail intermodal train is seen from the Freemansburg bridge in Steel City, Pennsylvania. At the time, the American Presidential Lines trailers held no particular significance for me... (more)

An ex-Erie Lackawanna SDP45, an ex-Penn Central U30B, and a Precision National GP35 lead and eastbound trail around Wilt’s Curve in Steel City, Pennsylvania. Just over two years into Conrail, a ... (more)

Conrail ML-433 heads west out of Selkirk Yard, crossing Game Farm Road in New Scotland, NY. Powering the train is an unusual pairing of a Conrail Ballast Express C32-8 and a Burlington Northern c... (more)

A clean quartet of EMD six-axles lead Conrail SEAL-4 south off the controlled siding at CP7. Three SD40-2s are joined by an SD45-2, not a common consist in an era dominated by C40-8Ws. As of the... (more)

Conrail’s TV trains usually had three 3,000 hp four-axle units assigned to them. On Sundays, and possibly other days, Mail-9 was frequently used as a transport to move excess power west. Februa... (more)

Oak Island-bound Conrail tonnage rolls through Wilt’s Curve in Steel City, Pennsylvania.

Conrail 6613 leads 105-car loaded coal train UCR-80 into the tunnel at Weehawken, NJ. The head end has just passed the signal at CP 02 on trackage that was an extension of the River Line also kno... (more)

6102 leads a loaded UCR coal train north through Ridgefield Park, NJ on the River Line. This train would have been destined to the Central Hudson Power Plant in Roseton, NY.

After making a stop for the kids on board to have an Easter Egg Hunt, the LM&M's Easter Bunny Express rolls southbound on former CL&N rails in Turtlecreek Township behind Conrail-painted GP10 No. ... (more)

My wife Christina and our dog Shelby greet the southbound LM&M Railroad Easter Bunny Express behind Conrail-painted GP10 No. 7544 at Glosser Road just outside of Lebanon on an absolutely gorgeous ... (more)

Years after Conrail operated freight traffic in Lebanon after taking over the former CL&N trackage from Penn Central in 1976, a Conrail painted unit it back in town pulling passenger excursions on... (more)

CR 6080 leads an SD50 and SD40-2 into Horseshoe Curve on an early May afternoon. Scanned from a print.

Conrail ALSE passes the former Lehigh Valley EASTON tower in Easton, PA with a pair of SD60Ms in the lead. The train will soon be crossing the Delaware River into New Jersey. The tower would b... (more)

SENS brings a large block of empty clay slurry tanks south past the signal at CP7 in Bogota, NJ. NSSE and SENS typically handled blocks of clay cars, many of which were destined to/from New Engla... (more)