Four Decades - 2

Forty years ago today, several sets of Conrail power wait to leave the servicing tracks at Mingo Junction, Ohio. To the right is the yard office building, and beyo... (more)

Four Decades

Forty years ago today, a college friend, a friend of his, and I walked into the yard office at Mingo Junction, Ohio to ask permission to photograph Conrail’s facilit... (more)

Although Mingo Junction gained fame as a hub of Conrail six-axle Alco Century action, many four axle Alcos also frequented the Ohio yard. Here a former Penn Central C425, still displaying its PC N... (more)

Wearing the corporate paint scheme and showing the grime that quickly builds up in ore train service. Conrail C430 idles with a variety of roster mates at Mingo Junction, Ohio.

With two Alco C430’s trailing, a Conrail GP38 leads a power set into the engine terminal at Mingo Junction, Ohio for servicing,

EMD and GE power is in force at the normally Alco-dominated engine tracks at Mingo Junction, Ohio.

The drip strip over the cab window and the AAR trucks indicate that this Conrail C430 is of Reading lineage, as opposed to the former New York Central units, which had Alco’s Hi-Ad trucks. Conra... (more)

Most of Conrail’s big Alcos never saw that paint shop for a coat of blue paint. Most of its ex-PC SD40-2’s were quickly transformed to its new corporate image. Here a C636 and a C630 working ... (more)

A visit to Mingo Junction in the late 1970’s was usually accompanied with expectations of seeing big Alco’s, but a Cleveland Electric GP38-2 and a matched set of Conrail SD45-2’s were not ba... (more)

Mingo Monster

A Rails Northeast article by Jay Potter, titled “The Monsters of Mingo Junction”, made the small industrial town of Mingo Junction, Ohio, a bucket list des... (more)

No Shore Line Around Here

Temporarily removed from its environs along the western shore of Lake Erie, Detroit & Toledo Shore Line SW9 118 finds itself in a land-locked location. Ap... (more)

A few months back, one of my photos started a discussion about the radiator overhangs on Dash-7 GE’s being noticeably different from those on 33- and 36-series U-boats. This photo of a U33B and ... (more)

A Conrail C636 gets refueled at the service rack at Mingo Junction, Ohio. Those Hi-Ad trucks gave these units an extra-brutish look.