New Haven "washboard" electrics in PC paint cruise under the wire at New Rochelle. At this time deliveries of M2 "Cosmopolitans" MU's were replacing many of these ex NH MU's.
A train out of Hunts Point appears out of the cut at Spuyten Duyvil with clean PC power 9 months after the Conrail startup.
The Washington section of Amtrak's "Broadway Limited", almost to its destination
Penn Central power waits at IHB engine track
By August of 1977 the three remaining Penn Central E7s in North Jersey Coast Line service were real railfan favorites that everyone was trying to shoot. I, being 15 and using the commuter trains t... (more)
After pulling off their train in order to make way for the GG1 waiting in the distance, a pair of Penn Central E8s pull across the manually operated grade crossing and head towards the engine hous... (more)
Nearly 40 years ago, while a 15-year-old pup, I got up early one morning and went into work with my dad. He dropped me at Penn Station Newark and I rode a Conrail North Jersey Coast Line train to ... (more)
For awhile in the late 1970s there was a deadline sitting along Route 9 in Croton NY with a selection of the original PC/MTA painted FL9s (with white nose) and some never repainted New Haven units... (more)
An eastbound trailer train races by the platform in Princeton Junction on April 17, 1977. Over a year into Conrail but still looking completely Penn Central.
For a couple months in 1977, just before the end of all MP54s on Conrail's commuter lines, a pair of the old cars replaced the normal Jersey Arrow on the Princeton Dinky (aka PJ & B - Princeton Ju... (more)
Alco and EMD products converge at Weirton Jct., WV.
LENOX TOWER IL Aug 3 1976 -- A Penn Central (Conrail?) GP40 passes Lenox Tower southbound.
LENOX TOWER IL Aug 3 1976 -- A Penn Central (or is it Conrail?) SD45 passes Lenox Tower.
Westbound PC train South Bend
The Broadway Limited heads into the morning sun, with one of the GG-1s not picked up by Amtrak- No. 4894, built by PRR/GE in April 1940. I'm sure the passengers in the sleeper right behind the ba... (more)