An eastbound Conrail train waits for clearance into Allentown Yard at Adams Island, Pennsylvania. I don’t recall a regular Conrail unit tank train on the Lehigh & Susquehanna line, but it clearl... (more)

It Must Have Been a Long Trip from Coxton

As an eastbound Conrail train approaches Hamilton Street in Allentown, Pennsylvania, the crew looks ready to get off of the lead SD35. The... (more)

Coming 'round the mountain: Symbol freight PIBA (Conway-Baltimore) eases its consist around the curve coming into MG Interlocking, high on the Allegheny slopes. Ektachrome.

In sea of rails, wires, and signals, an inbound New Jersey Transit Morris & Essex service to New York slows for its station stop at Secaucus Junction. A glorious November sunset lights up the sky,... (more)

Note the Metroliner in the background. Sometimes Bruce got so 'lucky' with his compositions, it wouldn't surprise me if he staged them himself. A Bruce Van Sant original Kodachrome slide from my... (more)

This is a helper set, heading away from the photographer. The caboose makes it obvious, but even without it one could tell based on the orientation of the pantographs. According to the Conrail E... (more)

A Bruce Van Sant original Kodachrome slide from my collection

An SD40 and two SD40-2’s lead a westbound Conrail manifest into Reading Pennsylvania on the former Reading main line. The lead unit is passing the former Reading Brewing Company brewery, which c... (more)

MP15 8-Pack

Conrail’s former Reading lines in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania (now the Reading and Northern) had no significant servicing facilities. With most jobs operati... (more)

Conrail Local WHRE-99 shoves a long string of empty hoppers for the anthracite regions toward Tuckerton, Pennsylvania. In two more years, this move would be an interchange to the Reading & Norther... (more)

Two former Reading MP15’s ply a former Reading branch as they lead Conrail local WHRE-10 down the Reading & Columbia Branch in Montello, Pennsylvania. The MP15’s stayed in the Reading area wor... (more)

Conrail train ZBB, a unit ore train from Philadelphia (Greenwich) to Bethlehem Steel in Bethlehem, rolls into Belt Line Junction on the Reading Belt Line. Three SD40-2’s have matters well in han... (more)

Conrail train ALCG (Allentown, PA – Corning, NY)rolls through the rural community of Osterhaut, Pennsylvania.

A trio of Conrail B36-7’s glide through Perdix, Pennsylvania with a westbound TV train.

Conrail TV-301 rolls west at Chemung, New York. The train must have had a slow order or some other sort of delay, because I had just shot it at the Chemung overpass, only about ½ mile away.