While the ballast crew has tied down and gone to lunch, the regular crew passes #4211 with inbound cars in tow

While the regular train crew uses Baldwin S12 #301 to pull inbound cars off the Conrail Interchange, an Extra crew is utilizing B23-7 #4211 to dump ballast on one of the many tracks recently built... (more)

The East Penn crew is heading West on the Octoraro Branch with cars bound for Avondale

The East Penn crew is heading North to interchange cars with Brandywine Valley Railroad in South Coatesville

Here is another Baldwin Locomotive Works 4-8-4, number 2651, built for the Northern Pacific Railway. My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., who worked for Baldwin as a design engineer, would... (more)

A West Bound East Penn train is seen south of Pocopson on the Wilmington and Northern branch of the railroad. The train has several covered hoppers and tank cars bound for the Octoraro Branch of t... (more)

The East Penn crew has just picked up inbound cars from Brandywine Valley's Coatesville Yard and are heading South through Mortonville towards Pocopson.

Paoli, 1975- a mixture of Deepwater Green Penn Central and Tuscan Red PRR MP54 MU cars are trundling into Paoli Yard. Bringing up the rear is Wilmington-rebuilt (1950-53) ex-PRR no. 508. Today, ... (more)

Doubleheaded Penn Central GG1s lead autoracks eastbound through Earnest Yard in Norristown, PA, on a misty spring day.

Streamliners on the Main Line

Arguably the best looking train to travel the PRR main line west of Philadelphia since the more prosperous days of the Pennsy was Conrail’s office c... (more)

Varnish at West Falls

Conrail’s Office Car Special traverses the former Reading bridge at West Falls, Pennsylvania. The train has left Philadelphia, and is entering the West Tren... (more)

An ex Reading SW 1001 is on a cut at Reading's Darby Creek Yard, just south of the Philadelphia International Airport.

This is another example of a beautiful Northern built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the RF&P, number 610, the Governor Fitzhugh Lee. The order was for six locomotives, 607 - 612. I noticed... (more)

Back in Service. In late 1988, an up-turn in rail business forced Conrail to pull some GP30 and GP35 units out of storage. One of the re-activated GP30s is shown leading a coal train. ... (more)