These two units ran up to Fitchburg six days a week with carloads of vinyl pellets for the plastics industry that thrived in Leominster. I like the early Conrail lashups with blue and black units ... (more)

Conrail SBSE-6 crosses the Castleman Bridge and enters the town of Selkirk, NY

No dash 2 here. This ia an original Pennsylvania Railroad SD-45 running strong through snow at the approach signals in Cordaville. This freight will go straight through to Beacon Park in Boston.

8139 was a Penn Central GP-38-2 purchased new with batch of over 200 units. It survived all the way to Norfolk Southern takeover .This shot shows the unit with CR logo overprinted on PC logo. Kind... (more)

With such a warm summer upon us I thought, why not think about winter and cool days and white snow.

The service that made Conrail famous and profitable in the end was the fleet of TV trains like this UPS at the Tunnels. A new B23-7 is in the lead which is unusual for a low horse power BB unit.

This blue road switcher blends with the blue sky and contrasts with the red CP box car. This ex New Haven Geep is right at home on former New Haven trackage at Mansfield just a few hundred feet fr... (more)

Pittsfield pusher waiting for another turn to push a freight up the steep grade East out of Pittsfield. the grade is so straight and steep, trains coming down appear to be on a slide. Sometimes th... (more)

Conrail beauty in a tranquil place between Huntington and Chester beside the Westfield River. TV 10, the UPS train, headed for Worcester.

From the Going Away School of rail pictures. I was surprised to see a heavy manufactured item leaving New England. It came off a ship at Boston Harbor.

At the higest point on the Penn Central in New England. Conrail is just gearing up and PC units along with sister units from EL have teamed up to bring the old Penn Central out of the dark ages.

The helper has just cut off the rear and the engineer is ready to throttle down the units. We are at the top of the grade, from this point east it is mostly down hill to Springfield.