Contrail switcher at the yard of the Union station of Chicago. Traces of the old owner Penn Central are still visible

It is April 16, 1982, the last day of Conrail on the Utica Branch. Eddie Luther, Bob Dowling and Jim Dundon pose on the front of the train while waiting for a westbound Amtrak to pass. Shortly aft... (more)

Early Wisconsin Central locomotive consists were certainly colorful and you never really knew what to expect. On a rainy and damp November 7, 1987, WC train 41 rolls smartly through Silver Lake, W... (more)

An interesting mix of power has gathered at the East End of Oak Island Yard. Conrail 6612 is a C32-8 that was rebuilt with a Dash 8-40C-style cab and nose. The mismatched number boards were a ni... (more)

Conrail SECS approaches CP5 behind a pair of SD50s. Five cars back in the consist is a flat car containing two red double-decker buses (BOFC?).

Sunday was light engine move day on the River Line. Conrail ENS-102 heads north across Overpeck Creek with a typical consist of 15 light units. This move was a regular occurrence on Sunday after... (more)

A pair of Conrail SD60s bring the Barnham & Bailey Red Train toward the Merchants Bridge to cross over into St. Louis.

Making an unusual move, two Conrail SW900’s pull a half-dozen SEPTA Silverliver IV;s through Perkiomen Junction, Pennsylvania. I’m not sure of the circumstances for this movement.

Conrail’s OCS and Track Geometry fleet was based in Reading, Pennsylvania. Here a former Reading SW900, looking almost like a member of the fleet, shuttles a car around Reading yard. Note the ho... (more)

1982 photo of the mission-style 1903-built PRR station aside one of the last 4-track stretches of the old PRR Middle Division, with a nice Conrail-blue MW truck parked for the weekend.

A pair of Conrail motors hustle a westbound Santa Fe train through Houlihan’s Curve climbing Edelstein Hill just west of Chillicothe, Illinois, on the afternoon of June 4, 1988.

Apparently just out of the paint shop, this Conrail SW7 was in the yard at Lewistown, Pennsylvania.

For photographers of early Conrail, the least desirable locomotive on the point of a train was a filthy ex-Penn Central unit. Apparently, they occasionally did get washed.

With the sprawling Wheeling-Pittsburgh steel mill as a backdrop, an eastbound Conrail TV train rolls through Mingo Junction, Ohio. An SD45 and a GP35, both of Erie Lackawanna heritage, provide the... (more)