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)

Two GP38’s and a C430, all wearing Penn Central black, bring a train of ore empties into Mingo Junction, Ohio.

After getting lunch at a local convenience store, the crew of Conrail local WHRE-10 has retrieved its train o continue its work. Here it crosses Main Street in Denver, Pennsylvania. The Denver Nat... (more)

A Conrail autorack train, led by CR GE C40-8W No. 6098, approaches Chicago & North Western’s Proviso Yard at Northlake, Illinois, on February 9, 1992. On the left, C&NW EMD SD38-2 No. 6654 switc... (more)

Gone to Beans

…or at least to prepackaged sandwiches. After dropping its cars a few hundred feet back, the crew of Conrail local WHRE-10 has crossed Main Street in Denver, Pennsy... (more)

Conrail local WHRE-10 spots cars at the Gehman Feed Mill in Denver, Pennsylvania.

With the Pennsylvania Turnpike bridge in the distance, Conrail local WHRE-10 crosses Locust Street in Denver, Pennsylvania.

A classic cast iron Reading whistle post protects the Main Street crossing as Conrail local WHRE-10 approaches Creamery Road in Reinholds, Pennsylvania.

With part of its train still on the bridge over the Lehigh River, a westbound Conrail manifest rolls through East Penn Junction, Pennsylvania. Today this view from Susquehanna Street is two tracks... (more)

Late on a summer evening, an eastbound Conrail coal train waits for clearance at East Penn Junction, Pennsylvania. The most interesting locomotive in the consist, a former New Haven U25B is leadin... (more)