Leasers…add Life!

Paraphrasing the familiar mid-‘70’s Coca-Cola advertising slogan from the billboard in the photo, one of the ways that the drab monotony of the ex-PC power... (more)

Viewed from the Tilghman Street/Union Boulevard bridge in Allentown, Pennsylvania, an eastbound Conrail train approaches Allentown yard from Lehighton and points beyond. The truss bridge in the ba... (more)

A Four Builder Lashup?

The lead unit of this northbound Delaware & Hudson train began life as D&H RS3 4122. Although it still carries a lot of its RS3 lines, D&H 505 was outshopped... (more)

With the setting sun barely above the horizon, a southbound Delaware & Hudson train makes its final approach to Allentown yard. The two ex-Lehigh Valley GP38-2’s and two ex-Reading GP39-2’s ar... (more)

After the Delaware & Hudson’s expansion as a result of the Conrail merger, the D&H was short of power, and looked in all directions for additional locomotives. One solution came in the form of a... (more)

Rock Star

When the Susquehanna won the right to run haulage trains over Conrail’s Southern Tier line between the Southern Division in Little Ferry and the Northern Division in Bi... (more)

Eastbound coal arrives at Conrail’s Allentown, Pennsylvania yard on the former Reading East Penn line. The N&W box car is on one of the tracks that curve to the right as part of the former Jerse... (more)

Almost eight years after the Conrail merger, there were still “patch jobs” wandering around the system. Here a GP38-2 in the drab austerity scheme leads a set of power out of the west end of A... (more)

Conrail’s C30-7A “class unit”, number 6550, is sandwiched by twenty percent of GE’s C32-8 production. Conrail purchased the only ten of the 3200 horsepower C-C’s that were produced. In ... (more)

A westbound Conrail freight doubles its train as it prepares to leave Allentown yard. There are two unusual locomotives in the consist. There’s an MT6 slug at the rear of the consist, probably ... (more)

The Erie Lackawanna invested heavily in EMD’s “45” line, starting with 34 SD45’s purchased in 1967-8. Wanting to add range to the next order for the big fuel guzzlers, the EL bought 34 fau... (more)

A local crew takes its pair of Conrail GP38-2’s into a fairly quiet Allentown yard. A train sitting on the main line and one string of cars in the receiving yard are the only other visible sign... (more)

In the mid-1980’s, Guilford looked in all directions for used power. The Boston & Maine was the proud recipient of this ex-Conrail GP40, seen waiting for a crew in Allentown yard.

As Conrail retired the Alco road switchers that held many of the Lehigh Valley area local assignments, replacements came in the form of rebuilt GP8’s. Conrail 5458 began life as Erie GP7 1241.

Nowadays, it seems that any Class 1’s locomotive can show up anywhere in North America. In the 1970’s, foreign power showing up in a distant location was more uncommon. The Delaware & Hudson�... (more)