Conrail E8 #4020 leads an "Office Car Special" as it crosses the massive Delair bridge linking Philadelphia and Camden NJ.

Led by a Conrail GP7, the Interlake Steel bottle train is seen on the former South Chicago & Southern at Calumet Park Junction. This line would be abandoned by Conrail in the 1990s causing Amtrak... (more)

Conrail 6710 brings westbound autoracks thru the s curve in New Carlisle, IN in January of 1998. This view is from the cemetery adjacent to the tracks.

On their first revenue move, a trio of Conrail SD50s heads east from the IHB's Blue Island Yard. Note the flatcars loaded with truck frames which were a common sight throughout the 1980s and earl... (more)

Bethlehem Engine Terminal hosted its share of six-axle Alco Centuries in the pre-Conrail era. Besides the Lehigh Valley’s fleet of C628’s, which were resident power, Reading C630’s were also... (more)

A Conrail SW1500 pulls a string of loaded piggyback flats off the trailer loading tracks and past the yard office at Beacon Park Yard in Boston. The yard closed in 2013 as CSX moved intermodal ope... (more)

From 1890 to 2013, Beacon Park Yard in the Allston section of Boston was a busy terminal for the Boston & Albany and successors NYC, PC, CR, and CSX. It was closed in 2013 to free up the valuable ... (more)

Wearing the special "Ballast Express" paint scheme, a pair of Conrail GE C32-8 units are working hard as they haul a loaded ballast train upgrade through Wyomissing Junction.

Conrail 6831 brings a freight thru Cresson, PA in June of 1992 as coal/helper power looks on.

Conrail SD40-2 6452, GP38-2 8131, GP38 7873 and GE U23B 2746.

Boston-Chicago piggybacker TV-9 is underway west though the suburbs on Conrail's former Boston & Albany line at Wellesley, MA. This was once four-track territory to accommodate commuters. The trio... (more)

A GE trio comprised of one of Conrail's ten humpbacked C32-8s and a pair of C30-7As is almost done with its work as their eastbound intermodal train eases down the lead track into Beacon Park Yard... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

CR 3269 brings a TV train thru Hammond, IN on a foggy, but moody day in March of 1985.

A Conrail manifest crosses over mains at Chesterton/Porter, Indiana. If I recall right the train was crossing over to exit onto the Indiana Harbor Belt line, which in addition to heading to IHB ya... (more)