Beside the usual lineup, Union Pacific’s Cheyenne diesel shop has a visitor. It’s the day before a Denver – Laramie excursion, and 4-6-6-4 3985 is having its boiler warmed up by the shop’s... (more)

Two ex-New York Central rotary plows survived into Conrail’s roster. The first, NYC X-659, built by Leslie in 1889, became PC/Conrail 64599 and survives unrestored in the Buffalo area. The seco... (more)

Delaware & Hudson train RPPY (Rouses Point - Potomac Yard) passes the site of the once-bustling Lehigh Valley yard in Packerton, Pennsylvania.

Conrail inherited about forty mechanical reefers from the Erie-Lackawanna, numbered in the EL 5000 series. Some, but not all, were repainted in what has to be the most striking and unusual freight... (more)

A stop by the small Maine Central yard in Rockland, Maine turned up this aged flanger.

Two Erie Lackawanna veterans, GP7 1234 and SW1200 459, are on the engine tracks of the former Lehigh Valley’s Coxton Yard. While processing this photo, I realized that the top of the Sullivan Tr... (more)

"You're not from around here are you?" With a seemingly endless array of loco models and colors flowing through the area, it was still a unique surprise to have a high-hood GP30 lead a D... (more)

Bringing Home the Hook

On the Saturday one day after Conrail’s first birthday, I planned to spend the day recording Conrail at age one. The day turned out to be very dismal, but ... (more)

The Pittsburg & Shawmut Brookville passes the one-time depot at Timblin, Pennsylvania. A look at Google maps reveals that nothing related to the railroad, including the station, is left today.

Eastbound coal rolls through the small community of Mount Carbon, West Virginia. The Chessie SD50’s were the pride of the fleet in the mid-1980’s.

Lehighton Bicentennials 5 - Arriving in Lehighton, looking for an Erie-Lackawanna bicentennial unit in helper service, I instead found an eastbound train lead by a D&H bicentennial unit stopping f... (more)

Conrail’s Allentown Local to Washington, New Jersey, WJAL-18, enters the former Lackawanna Phillipsburg Branch from the ex-Jersey Central main line at Phillipsburg, New Jersey. This local was ab... (more)

Susquehanna train NTV-4 negotiates the shelf next to the Delaware River at Basket, New York. Apparently management has applied a belt and suspenders approach to monitoring the rear of the train, a... (more)

The drip strip over the cab window and the AAR trucks indicate that this Conrail C430 is of Reading lineage, as opposed to the former New York Central units, which had Alco’s Hi-Ad trucks. Conra... (more)

A Delaware & Hudson Penn Division detour train begins the journey north to Binghamton, having reversed direction after entering the former Erie Jefferson Division at Jefferson Junction. The portio... (more)