Conrail’s U23C’s and SD38’s spent most of their time in hump service at classification yards around the system. Occasionally, one of them would get to stretch their legs in the road. Here a ... (more)

Six months into Conrail’s existence, I’m sure that I took this photo to record the former Erie-Lackawanna U33C in Conrail blue, still a rarity at that time. Almost exactly forty-one years late... (more)

Conrail RS11 7652, a relative newcomer to the Bethlehem Engine Terminal, stands with two long-term veterans. SW900m 8650 has been a regular since the Lehigh Valley took over the Jersey Central’s... (more)

LMS 713 works upgrade passing MG as a set of helpers drift downgrade. The 1944 MG Block Station was built to add crossover capability on the lengthy grade from Altoona to Gallitzin, made critical ... (more)

Conrail 6619 leads rail train RAI-101 long hood forward. The train is holding the main at West Haverstraw on the River Line. This unit would later be painted in Conrail's gray and black "Ba... (more)

Conrail SD60I 5599 is westbound waiting to get across the Calumet River draw bridge on the far southeast side of Chicago Mar 1997.

Nearly new (Jan. 1993) CR 5515 Rests at Chesterton, IN while an Elkhart-Streator, IL Santa Fe run through led by SD40 ATSF 5005 rolls by, preparing to exit to the former NYC line to Kankakee and S... (more)

Westbound NYS&W Sea-Land stack train NTV-9 crests the grade at Gulf Summit, New York on a beautiful October day.

Q317 rolls across the stone viaduct in Cumberland, Md. as it departs Cumberland on the "old main line".

Conrail EMD SW1500 #9569 with small faded Conrail name, former Penn Central 9569 unit.

Conrail EMD SD40 6348, former Penn Central, nee PRR 6095. A Mike Bledsoe Photo.

Conrail GE B23-7 No.1942. (1900-2023, 2800-2826) Built 1977-79 117 units.

Conrail EMD SD40-2 6467.

The morning mist is still burning off on a Sunday morning as Conrail's PIAL ( Conway-Allentown) behind a pair of “Altoona builts” comes whistling through Huntingdon, PA with 135 cars in rapid ... (more)

It's just a brief bit of tangent as Conrail's Mail 3 comes out of Allegrippus curve and enters Cold curve while assaulting the east slope on an early November afternoon. Fuji Provia.