A pair of GP60s, one Southern Pacific and the other a very weathered Cotton Belt, lead Conrail TV-556 through the interlocking at CP7 on the River Line. TV-556 was the train to catch at th... (more)

During one of several "rainbow eras" on the NYS&W, a colorful consist leads HAN-2 across the Hackensack River bridge. The train will soon arrive at Ridgefield Park where the power was typically s... (more)

A clean quartet of EMD six-axles lead Conrail SEAL-4 south off the controlled siding at CP7. Three SD40-2s are joined by an SD45-2, not a common consist in an era dominated by C40-8Ws. As of the... (more)

Conrail ALSE passes the former Lehigh Valley EASTON tower in Easton, PA with a pair of SD60Ms in the lead. The train will soon be crossing the Delaware River into New Jersey. The tower would b... (more)

SENS brings a large block of empty clay slurry tanks south past the signal at CP7 in Bogota, NJ. NSSE and SENS typically handled blocks of clay cars, many of which were destined to/from New Engla... (more)

A pair of clean Conrail SD70s lead two other units on SENS at CP7 in Bogota, NJ. Conrail's SD70s were numbered in series with Norfolk Southern's own fleet. They were built to NS specifications, ... (more)

Conrail SEAL-6 has gotten the signal off the controlled siding at CP7 after holding for a meet with OISE. A C30-7A and SD50 have 117 cars in tow as the head end passes the dwarf signal. The pain... (more)

A nice variety of standard cab EMDs leads Conrail TV-10 through fresh snow at CP 7 in Bogota, NJ on the River Line.

A local crew uses the power for the evening's SU-99 to do some final switching of the train before the road crew arrives.

The NYSW SU-100 (with the WS-1 local crew on board as a relief crew) crosses the Hackensack River into Bogota, NJ with the USS Ling in the background. In the lead is one of the railroad newly acq... (more)

One of the hottest trains on Conrail's River Line was TVLA. It handled a solid TOFC consist from North Bergen, NJ to Los Angeles, CA via a connection with the Santa Fe at Corwith Yard in Chicago ... (more)

CSX 5245 on the middle siding in Bogota.

A pair of SD40-2s lead a southbound past the northbound signal at CP7 in Bogota, NJ. New signals were being installed here by CSX as part of the upgrade to include a second controlled siding betw... (more)

In the earliest days of the Conrail split, some things changed and others did not. In the case of this particular train, CSX power certainly wasn't foreign to Conrail's River Line. Train symbols... (more)

SU-99 sits at Cross Street in Bogota NJ waiting for the crew to take it west to Binghamton. In the background, the New York City skyline and the Empire State building are visible.