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Conrail EMD GP38-2 No. 8155 powers a hot metal “bottle train” approaching the busy junction at Dolton, Illinois, on March 19, 1988. These trains shipped molten metal from... (more)

April's Fools Day GG1s. On April 1, 1978, Conrail GG1s 4840 and 4806 bring a freight train westbound through Princeton Junction, New Jersey. Looking at other shots this day (of less interesting to... (more)

When I got into my rent-a-car and starting driving from downtown Cleveland to Collinwood Yard, it had been five and a half years since my previous visit. At that time the deadline was 90% Alco Cen... (more)

Vintage Rotary. What would ultimately become Conrail 64599 was built by the Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works of Paterson, New Jersey in coordination with Leslie Brother in January 1889 fo... (more)

Two westbound U25Bs on the old Reading Lines west of Palmyra in 1977, headed downgrade toward Hershey. Lead unit No. 2645 was built for the PRR in March 1965 as their No. 2545.

SD45-2 # 6660 @ Altoona Pa.

Mail 3.

Still holding onto Conrail paint.

Northbound on the Northeast Corridor.

Conrail's Collinwood to Rockport yard transfer passes through the F-unit mecca (at the time) of Collinwood Yard, Cleveland, Ohio, on December 28, 1978. It is led by three dewormed Penn Central F7(... (more)

Conrail HA16 passes Delaware & Hudson NE87 on the west end of Allentown Yard in Allentown Pennsylvania. The day is February 11, 1978 and my dad and I had been railfanning in the gorgeous sun since... (more)

Conrail AL-13 was also known as the East Penn Drill. On this day it was led by a former Reading SW1001. The drill is appropriately passing the remains of what had been Reading Company's y... (more)

In the Conrail era the concept of a "heritage unit" had not yet taken hold. However, Conrail did offer a smattering of specially painted units such as 6707. This SD50 was decorated wit... (more)

Conrail XNS-114 appears out of "the hole" (former Lehigh Valley main from Bethlehem and points east) and crosses over from track 2 to 1 at CP Burn. The XNS symbol was used for empty coa... (more)

Conrail train #3307 on the North Jersey Coast Line (fka the New York & Long Branch) picks up speed south of South Amboy New Jersey in the afternoon of March 30, 1978. The consist included two ratt... (more)