Due to the LaCrosse Division being out of service Milwaukee Road LaCrosse Division trains were being routed via Madison,WI.on the Watertown-Madison branch and the Madison -Portage branch.......it'... (more)

The Conrail Rome local getting ready to pick up the NYSW 3006 to take it back to Utica. Photo taken from the ( somewhat shaky ) roof of Rome Locomotive Works. The N&W caboose on the right belonged... (more)

The semaphores, code lines and jointed rail of the former Erie made the line seem as if a railroad that time had forgotten - for awhile. Mist rises from the Canisteo River as CR 6344 brings a west... (more)

Conrail SD40 6280 leads a train heading south across Iona Island, on the western bank of the Hudson River. (Stoney Point, New York – August 1984). Ed Robinson photo, Craig Walker collectionmore)

Tom Golden photo.

On an autumn early evening CR 5577 and 5583 have 143 cars in tow (with helpers) as the train passes beneath the 2407 signal bridge coming out of Scotch Run curve on its way up the mountain.

The presence of a Conrail SW7 and NW2 in electrified territory was not unusual – it commonly occurred in electrified lines of Pennsylvania, New York Central, New Haven, and Lackawanna lineage. The... (more)

Four years into Conrail’s existence, the engine terminal in Reading, Pennsylvania was still frequented by former Reading switchers in Reading paint. Here an SW900 is in the company of two SW1001’s... (more)

In what looks like a much more recent scene from the Reading & Northern, two of Conrail’s ex-Reading MP15’s spend the weekend in West Cressona, Pennsylvania.

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)

CR 6076 leads a string of empty hoppers westward through Lewistown Narrows on an October afternoon.