Strasburg 2-10-0 90 meets the sunrise while passing the Caboose Motel outside Strasburg.

A GP38 and two C430’s lead an empty ore train into Conrail’s yard in Mingo Junction Ohio. In the background, an eastbound Norfolk & Western train is passing in front of the Wheeling-Pittsburgh Ste... (more)

Conrail train WHRE-10 approaches the Creamery Road crossing in Reinholds, Pennsylvania. Google Maps indicated that the house to the right is now a pile of rubble.

December has taken away much of the foliage in Reinholds, Pennsylvania, revealing the vine-covered stone water tank base. Conrail train WHRE-10 does not need to stop as many of its steam-powered p... (more)

Probably no strangers to this line, two former Reading MP15’s lead Conrail local WHRE-10 through Reinholds, Pennsylvania. The building on the right is an 1863 hotel built by Col. Jesse Reinhold sh... (more)

Conrail local WHRE-10 passes through central Pennsylvania farm land as it approaches Reinholds, Pennsylvania.

A Conrail SD50 leads a former EMD SD60 demo and two GP35’s of Erie Lackawanna and Reading heritage west at East Penn Junction, Pennsylvania. The GP35;s were not on line, and were probably on their... (more)

Conrail train ALCA (Allentown, Pennsylvania – Camden, New Jersey) is on the first leg of its journey at East Penn Junction, Pennsylvania. Due to a runaround move required in Philadelphia, ALCA was... (more)

Three GP40-2’s lead an eastbound Conrail TV Train “into the hole” (the former Lehigh Valley main) at East Penn Junction, Pennsylvania. The grade crossing with Basin Street that it is about to cros... (more)

With part of its train in Allentown yard, a westbound Conrail train enters the East Penn line at East Penn Junction, Pennsylvania. Today the location is more commonly known as CP Burn, a name deri... (more)

The power dispatchers on the Delaware & Hudson sometimes seemed to forget that their Potomac Yard trains reversed direction in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Here train RPPY is seen at Belt Line Junctio... (more)

A westbound Conrail manifest is about to enter the Reading Belt Line at Belt Line Junction, timetable west of Reading, Pennsylvania. The tracks to the right are the former Reading main line from d... (more)

Side-by-side Conrail Trailer Van trains work westward from Altoona at Bennington Curve, Pennsylvania. The GP38/GP38-2 power has a U25B trailing for added “atmosphere”.

GM’s Everywhere

There are GM automobiles as far as the eye can see in the open racks of a train approaching Tunnelhill, Pennsylvania at Bennington Curve. On the next track, Santa F... (more)

Early Conrail action finds an empty perishable train climbing toward Horseshoe Curve on the four track Broad Way. The weeds in the track of one of the busiest railroads in the world illustrates th... (more)