Ex-Reading Lines.

ALCS (Allentown-Chessie System).

Nothing quite like a big Alco Century... these were the most lovely of brutes, even a former Penn Central one that had been patched for Conrail. Regarding the black dirt, this was the Pit at Meado... (more)

Conrail TV16, a Detroit to North Bergen NJ intermodal train, passes through Haworth NJ on a sunny Saturday morning in autumn.

This was PO87 (The Ordinary). The Ordinary worked Paterson, Suffern, Greycourt, Middletown, and Port Jervis. On this day it came up the Bergen County Line and then went down to Paterson on the Mai... (more)

PIEL (Pittsburgh-Elkhart) led by the last wide cab EMD SD60 bought by Conrail.

A Conrail freight rumbles eastbound between Otis and Pinola, Indiana, on the railroad’s busy Chicago to Elkhart main line on the morning of February 11, 1995.

Ex-Penn Central.

A pair of Conrail SD50s power westbound CR ELIC, a freight from Elkhart Yard in Indiana to Illinois Central, just east of Dolton Junction, Illinois, on December 3, 1988. The train is meeting a sho... (more)

PIOI (Pittsburgh-Oak Island).

A Conrail Office Car Special passes by the Delaware Inn located in Hancock, NY during April 1996. Photographer unknown, Kodachrome from the John E. Troxler collection.

PIAL (Pittsburgh-Allentown).

Two former Erie Lackawanna NW2s and an SW9 await their next assignments in their old home territory of Croxton Yard (the Erie Railroad's big New York area yard). Before being patched and numbered ... (more)

Summer high sun is the worst, but sometimes you can find an angle that still kind of works. Here is Cedar Hill (New Haven) bound SENH1 on July 1, 1978, heading south through Hyde Park, New York ou... (more)

Conrail’s SFEL4 freight off the Santa Fe makes a beeline through Chesterton, Indiana, over the railroad’s busy Chicago to Elkhart Yard main line on the bright morning of June 24, 1990.