A pair of year-old SD50’s teams with an SW1500 to lead a Conrail train out of Reading at Belt Line Junction.

An SD40-2. A GP40, and two SD40’s wait for a signal at Belt Line Junction near Reading, Pennsylvania. Belt Line Junction is an “X”-shaped plant. The train seen here is on the main line from ... (more)

Although most eastbounds dropped downgrade at a slow pace, my notes suggest this 81 car outfit was moving briskly for the territory - likely account its ample braking power. The train is entering ... (more)

Symbol CAPI out of Camden, NJ, with its usual block of hi cube boxcars on the head-end, has an SD60, SD40-2R and SD60 leading its 114 cars; and you can be certain there are a pair of SD40-2s on th... (more)

Six months after they rolled out of Erie, two Conrail C40-8W’s lead a westbound train out of Allentown at East Penn Junction, PA.

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 ALCA (Allentown, PA – Camden, NJ) rolls through Valley Junction on the west side of Reading, Pennsylvania. The track in the foreground is the connection for Philadelphia trains to... (more)

This was the place to be to witness mountain railroading in the east. CR volumes were heavy with manifest traffic, vans and mineral freight. Most tonnage outfits had helpers in both directions and... (more)

On one of those brooding summer days when the skies threaten storms, Conway to Baltimore manifest symbol PIBA comes rolling through Mill Creek, PA with a generous power allotment of two SD60Ms and... (more)

Deep in Spruce Creek valley near Birmingham, a westbound ore train for US Steel in Clairton consisting of 109 jenny hoppers negotiates the tight passageway that confined the Broadway to three main... (more)

Reading on the Great Broad Way

A Reading GP35 leads an eastbound Conrail manifest into the cut at Bennington Curve on the former Pennsylvania main line. Because they retained their... (more)

Bruce was on Chickies Rock for this shot, and looks cold. A Bruce van Sant original Kodachrome slide from my collection.

Big Blue in its prime: one of the afternoon fleet of van trains snarls up the grade as it rounds Allegrippus Curve, about midway between Horseshoe Curve and Gallitzin. Fuji Sensia.

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

A Walter Schopp original Kodachrome slide from my collection.