Conrail ALSE-7 charges northbound through Ridgefield Park on the River Line behind a typical (for the era) pair of Conrail SD40-2s. I miss those FGE "Solid Cold" reefers.

Conrail NB-39 works Stone Container on the Ford Lead in Teterboro, NJ. NB-39 was the regular relief for the OI-31 crew which brought this job up to the Pascack Valley Line from Oak Island Yard ev... (more)

Rows of Conrail ore jennies provide a backdrop for a gathering of SW1500s at Greenwich yard in South Philadelphia. Ore and coal were once two of the primary commodities handled at this former PRR... (more)

Conrail SECS hits the curve south of Ridgefield Park station behind a trio of six-axle GEs. So much has changed in the thirty years since this photo was taken. Aside from the obvious, the lack o... (more)

Conrail SEAL (Selkirk, NY - Allentown, PA) approaches Blanch Ave in Norwood, NJ on the River Line. A remnant of the old New York Central code line remained at right among the encroaching trees.

“Breakfast Without Orange Juice…”
Doing its part to ensure an adequate supply of sunshine for the following week, Conrail’s OJT (Tropicana orange juice train) charges across the ... (more)

What a great train symbol for a Logansport-Columbus freight. (C'mon NS, it makes more sense that 13Z.) Anyway the out of town kid is getting a little excursion and dressing up the scene. Photo b... (more)

A train of autoracks from Yard Nine heads east through Chicago & North Western’s Proviso Yard on February 9, 1992. A pair of Conrail GE C40-8W locomotive provide motive power for the train.

An SD60I and SD60M lead a westbound out of the encroaching shadows of an autumn afternoon as the train unwinds from Scotch Run curve, a mile east of Horseshoe. Fuji Astia.

Much of the railroad scene has lost its appeal to me with the sameness or removal of signal systems, the prevalence of container boxes in lieu of rolling stock and the bloated merged systems that ... (more)

Back when there were auto manufacturing plants in the Northeast, Linden and Metuchen, NJ generated appreciable traffic - such as symbol LMPI that carried auto racks and hi cube boxcars. The train ... (more)

Conrail looked great in the 1990s and traffic moved right along over the mountain. Here symbol OIPI snarls through MG interlocking on the east slope with one of the daily succession of manifests o... (more)

MG was so sequestered a location that one only heard bird calls punctuating the silence until a distant westbound's locomotives began to fill the valley below Horseshoe with the sound of power. Ev... (more)

Led by Conrail GE B36-7 No. 5057, CR piggyback train TV1 rolls toward Chicago at Chesterton, Indiana, at 7:41 p.m. on June 30, 1990.

A pair of Conrail C40-8Ws and an NS EMD lead an SENS south through Ridgefield Park. NS run-through power was common on this Selkirk, NY to Linwood, NC (via Hagerstown, MD) train.