On a beautiful late winter morning, two SD50’s with Oak Island-bound tonnage, including an EMD switcher on a ferry move, come eastward from Allentown. The train is seen crossing the Lehigh River... (more)

"Resting Easy"

A former Conrail C39-8 rests in the back of the the New Hope & Ivyland shops awaiting to be repaired so it can once again return to service.

Both tunnels are still in use as CR 6369 leads a westbound freight thru town in June of 1992.

Coal loads for the power plant at Morgantown on the Potomac River roll south behind a trio of former Conrail 80MACs. My formative high school railfanning years were spent chasing these in my back... (more)

A Conrail MoW gondola sits on the remains of the old Lehigh & Hudson River main. The L&HR railroad was a bridge line running northeast-southwest across northwestern New Jersey. This was the L&HR m... (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)

Not What it Seems

What appears to be one of the cooler consists to lead a train over the Tehachapi Mountains is, in actuality, just the rear helpers on a westbound Burlington Norther... (more)

Conrail's track geometry train rolls through Pennsylvania Dutch farm country at Lyons, Pennsylvania. Heading west on the former Reading East Penn branch, the train is halfway between Allentown and... (more)

Year-old C40-8 No. 6028 with a half-blue/half-black snowplow heads west, halfway to the summit at Gallitzin.

In an era before double stacks, a freshly painted B36-7 teams with an SD40-2 to roll a westbound COFC train through Marysville, Pennsylvania. The eastbound and westbound tracks are grade=separated... (more)

CR 6082 is coming off the Porter Branch as Amtrak's Lakeshore Limited roars by in the opposite direction, near it's final destination of Chicago.

Sunset for the code line as two Conrail EMDs head east alongside the old Reading Railroad communication/signal wires, with the late winter sun highlighting the clear glass insulators. I think mos... (more)

With a C430 performing yard switching duties, a C424 brings a local into the Weirton Junction yard.

Taking the high line bypass of 30th Street Station, Conrail train PICA (Pittsburgh – Camden) looms over the nearly empty Amtrak coach yard. The two C40-8W’s still have their factory shine afte... (more)

After the formation of Conrail, it was not unusual to see former Erie-Lackawanna units at Allentown, or in the Bethlehem engine terminal, but they were almost always GP35’s or SD45/SDP45/SD45-2â... (more)