Why they called Conrail “Big Blue” - a couple Dash8-40CWs are spliced by an SD50 leading a westbound manifest out of Altoona, PA at the Brickyard Crossing on an October morning. The symbol is ... (more)

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)

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.

Camden to Elkhart manifest CAEL has a pair of snappers coupled ahead of the road power that includes SD50 6813 and a pair of SD80-MACs (4131 and 4130) as well as another pair of helpers shoving th... (more)