Several clean Guilford EMD’s are joined by a Norfolk Southern SD40-2 at Delaware & Hudson’s East Binghamton servicing facilities.

During the years that EMD switchers were still in force on the Conrail roster, Allentown yard was predominated by ex-Lehigh Valley pups, and the former Reading SW900’s were largely assigned to R... (more)

Conrail 8693, an SW8 inherited from the Erie Lackawanna, stands in front of the former Jersey Central shops in Elizabethport, New Jersey. Somewhere along the line, the EMD received a replacement s... (more)

Conrail SW8 8692, originally built for the DL&W in 1951, Works in the former Lehigh Valley Yard in Coxton, Pennsylvania.

Conrail’s theater car brings up the markers of a westbound Office Car Special on the Amtrak Harrisburg Line at Strafford, Pennsylvania.

A Conrail Office Car Special rolls west on the Amtrak Harrisburg Line, passing SEPTA’s former PRR gingerbread station at Strafford, Pennsylvania. E-units were quite unusual on this line, as the ... (more)

On a clear May day, a westbound Conrail COFC train powered by a B36-7/SD40-2 combo glides through Millerstown, Pennsylvania on the former PRR Middle Division.

Skirting the Juniata River, a westbound Conrail TV train approaches the community of Newport, Pennsylvania. The presence of two SD40-2’s on an intermodal train was somewhat unusual, as four-axle... (more)

Two Conrail SD50’s lead a westbound train of covered hoppers at Bailey, Pennsylvania, on the former PRR Middle Division. Between the power and the revenue traffic are a GP35, a GP9, and an SW9, ... (more)

Conrail and B&O had a run-through freight between Enola and a point that I don’t recall on the B&O. Here it has just left Enola and is making its first of two crossings of the Susquehanna River.... (more)

An eastbound Conrail manifest rolls across the Rockville Bridge. The switcher is probably being ferried to a local assignment after work at Enola or Altoona.

Conrail mixed intermodal train TV2 stretches across the Rockville Bridge in the last light of a June day.

The weekly Conrail power move from Reading to Enola approaches its destination as it crosses the Rockville Bridge. This assemblage of local power from Reading, usually predominated by former Readi... (more)

The mist hasn’t yet burned off of the Schuylkill River valley as the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus train makes its westward journey through Birdsboro, Pennsylvania.

The Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus train rolls west through Perkiomen Junction, Pennsylvania. The rails in the foreground are the former Reading Perkiomen Branch, which ran from here to ... (more)