Back in the days before it became a national park with rangers ensuring your eternal safety, one could access the backside, the outer portion of the Horseshoe Curve. Doing so in August of 1986 en... (more)

Passing through East View, Pennsylvania on the Monongahela’s Waynesburg Southern branch, a loaded coal train has a C36-7/SD50 leading it toward West Brownsville.

A Conrail C36-7/SD50 combination hauls coal away from one of the mines on the Monongahela’s Waynesburg Southern branch. The train is on the huge fill at Rogersville, Pennsylvania, with part of t... (more)

Conrail GE C36-7 No. 6620 leads a three other six-axle GE locomotives on westbound train NESE-2 through Hinsdale, Massachusetts, over the former Boston & Albany late in the afternoon of May 22, 19... (more)

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Conrail 6640, the Conway-bound OIPI out of Oak Island, rounds Horseshoe Curve on a lovely autumn day.

Norfolk Southern GE C36-7 8535 one of 43 former Norfolk & Western units (8500-8542)

A trio of Missouri Pacific C36-7's 9033, 9024 and 9056 in merger colors UP yellow and gray at Fort Worth, Texas on June 21, 1986.

A redo in the 1920s turned Central of Georgia's Birmingham-Columbus main from a substandard curvy, hill-and-dale line into a fine piece of railroad. One of the projects included in the rebuild wa... (more)

Missouri Pacific GE C36-7 60 units 9000-9059. Delivered new with yellow and gray paint and MP lettering. These C36-7's are husky engines measuring 67 feet, 3 inches long, and stand 15 feet, 4 inc... (more)

The train could be heard for a good fifteen minutes as it labored up the grade. Symbol CAEL has passed the westbound home signals at MG interlocking on its way across the Allegheny Mountains.

Crossing the trestle at Pine Bank, Pennsylvania, an empty train led by a Conrail C36-7/SD50 combo moves south toward Blacksburg.