Carrying an unfathomable amount of Tropicana orange juice, the five-day-a-week Bradenton, FL to Jersey City, NJ orange juice train passes the University of Pennsylvania's Franklin Field as it trav... (more)

A pair of clean GP10's switch the west end of Enola yard. They look far better than the NS power currently performing the same tasks.

Conrail's "Executive E's" are making track speed as they pull an office car special through Port Kennedy.

Enola has been, and continues to be, a place to find variety and unexpected surprises. Here a resident, relatively uncommon, U23C switches the hump while a variety of first- and second-generation ... (more)

The Erie Lackawanna Railroad 3639, later Conrail 6670, sits with the other relics in Norfolk Southern's West Yard in Roanoke. The SPD45 is listed as being owned by the Virginia Museum of Transport... (more)

Over eight years after the formation of Conrail, patched units were still floating around, including this one leading a trainload of coal bound for the Bethlehem Steel coke works up the South Beth... (more)

Three Conrail Schenectady products are on the leads at the Altoona backshop. The RS-27 is apparently in for truck work, as it is sitting on shop trucks. The two former Reading C424's are most like... (more)

W/B Conrail crosses over the former DT&I now Grand Trunk Western diamond. In the distance you can see they still had the old semaphore signals still in place.

Alco's galore but all dead, even the F's too. There was 3 lines of engines lined up. The F's had their prime movers missing. At least 2 RSD 12, 1 C628,1 RS 11, 1 C420, 5 RS27's that I can recal... (more)

An eastbound Conrail TV train crosses the Delaware river on a cold February morning.

Checking in with the tower. These locomotives were serviced at Clyde Diesel Shop and are likely ready to take some cars back south down the IHB.

You can see the old faded NYC stripe showing through on 1847. This train is passing by a abandon PRR yard called Kinsman I believe.

Conrail came into being on April 1 1976. Here we are in May and it sure looks like nothing has changed for the Penn Central.

Conrail Almost forty years ago on April 1st 1976 the Consolidated Railroad Corporation (Conrail) commenced operations and began returning reliable rail service back to the Northeast. Th... (more)

Lehighton Bicentennials 5 - Arriving in Lehighton, looking for an Erie-Lackawanna bicentennial unit in helper service, I instead found an eastbound train lead by a D&H bicentennial unit stopping f... (more)