A uniquely Conrail consist in honor of Conrail's 46th Birthday. Conrail SECS-9 is led by a C39-8, SD50 and C32-8 combination. The train is passing the (then) new NYS&W locomotive facility in Rid... (more)

A Conrail-powered train loads at Consolidated Coal’s Blacksville #2 mine in Wana, West Virginia. The inner part of the loop track usually was covered with a huge coal pile, but the ground is rel... (more)

Twilight at Mingo Junction

It’s twilight in Mingo Junction as one of Conrail’s notable “Mingo Monsters” waits to get out on the road at Mingo Junction, Ohio. It’s twiligh... (more)

CR 6640 is paired with the 6616, one of the unusual C32-8s. These units were re-painted gray and lettered for "Ballast Express" in the late nineties. The train of empty Penna. Power & Li... (more)

6112 leads a Piggyback train southbound through High Point NC.

Early Conrail action, with a U-Boat smoking up the catenary in Columbia, PA, westbound on the old PRR Atglen and Susquehanna Branch. No. 2797 was built by GE for Conrail in June 1977.

The crew of Conrail local WJAL-18 has dropped its train at Dover, New Jersey, and is passing a parked NJT train heading to the former DL&W station. After they exchange paperwork with the operator,... (more)

Symbol EDPI (Edge Moor-Conway) streaks through Port Royal on a summer afternoon while big, juicy cumulus clouds portend of a thunderstorm later in the day. The north track was lowered for clearanc... (more)

Eastbound on Conrail's Cleveland Line

A set of light engines roll past the former Reading station at Port Kennedy, Pennsylvania. The public is out in force to see Reading T1 2102 power a Reading – Philadelphia excursion, which is du... (more)

Original Kodachrome slide by B. Van Sant. Conrail TV-22 passes through Harrisburg station with two ex-PRR GG-1s.

Conrail SECS rolls through the curve south of Ridgefield Park station behind a pair of SD50s bracketing a C36-7.

A pair of Conrail SD80MACs mingle with typical Boston Line power, GE C30-7As, at the Selkirk Engine Terminal. CSX units are also present, a foreshadowing of what would come two years later.

One could overdoes on Conrail blue from the "Ben's Bridge" overpass adjacent to the Selkirk Engine Facility. SD80MAC 4127 is front and center, joined by C30-7As, an SD40-2, C40-8W and ... (more)

Conrail ML-405 works upgrade to CP7 behind a pair of fairly new SD70MACs with a dirty SD50 thrown in for good measure. The tracks in the foreground belong to the NYS&W and more would be added in ... (more)