You parked your truck in the way of my SD60! No, you parked your engine in the way of my truck! A night photo scene staged as part of Conrail Days at the Railroad Museum of PA back in 2009.

Camden to Elkhart manifest CAEL grinds up the mountain passing MG, which was still in part-time service at this date. This big GE leads an SD60 and SD60I with a pair of SD40-2s shoving. Scanned fr... (more)

Latrobe, PA sits in a dip between 1% grades - Bradenville to the east and Donohoe to the west. In CR days they really ripped through here - coming off one grade and getting a run for the other. Sy... (more)

Westbound passing Sinking Spring, PA.

It was barely a week after NS assumed operations on Conrail lines and their photogenic black was already infiltrating the familiar Conrail blue power consists. A westbound trailvan drops downgrade... (more)

Sailing through Huntingdon, PA on a June afternoon, symbol ALPI9F retains its Conrail designation (Allentown-Conway) for now. A renumbered B23-7 and a B36-7 also retain their Conrail colors with a... (more)

Conrail COSY9, Columbus to Syracuse, approaches the old  Reynolds Road grade crossing in Mentor, Ohio, on December 29, 1978. Power is a Conrail blue SD45 and GP38, both of Penn Central heritage. ... (more)

The Erie heritage signal beckons toward an eastbound as CR 8126 coupled with a Santa Fe SD45u brings a westbound into Marion, OH as clouds build on a spring afternoon. The Erie and NYC (former Big... (more)

A Columbus to Selkirk train heads east on the Water Level Route as it passes through Mentor Ohio on a chilly December morning. Power is a GP40 and a U33B.

Former Penn Central F7(A) #1854 is first out in this lineup at Collinwood on December 28, 1978. A little on-line research shows that this one-time New York Central unit went to scrap in February o... (more)

Hot train on a cold day... Conrail's TV14 (Englewood to Boston), heads east through Mentor, Ohio, on December 28, 1978. Power is U33B #2958, U30B #2873 and GP38-2 #8013. Both of the U-Boats have a... (more)

An SECO7 (Selkirk to Columbus) cuts through the early morning air in Mentor Ohio on December 28, 1978. Power was an ex Penn Central SD45 and U25B with an ex Reading GP35 trailing. This train had a... (more)

The eastbound Rockport Puller is seen waiting on CUT to enter Colliwnood behind three F7s working their last days in Cleveland local service.

I removed a wire from this shot that has bothered me for 47 years since I took the picture. We are looking east from the 152nd St Bridge. Conrail RC3 passes through Collinwood Yard in Cleveland be... (more)

My notes say that this was an ELBO7, but I can't find that symbol in the Conrail schedule I have for that time. There was a Buffalo train, so probably ELBU7. Mentor Ohio, 12/28/78, Charles Freeric... (more)