Conrail’s TV trains usually had three 3,000 hp four-axle units assigned to them. On Sundays, and possibly other days, Mail-9 was frequently used as a transport to move excess power west. Februa... (more)

Oak Island-bound Conrail tonnage rolls through Wilt’s Curve in Steel City, Pennsylvania.

Conrail 6613 leads 105-car loaded coal train UCR-80 into the tunnel at Weehawken, NJ. The head end has just passed the signal at CP 02 on trackage that was an extension of the River Line also kno... (more)

6102 leads a loaded UCR coal train north through Ridgefield Park, NJ on the River Line. This train would have been destined to the Central Hudson Power Plant in Roseton, NY.

After making a stop for the kids on board to have an Easter Egg Hunt, the LM&M's Easter Bunny Express rolls southbound on former CL&N rails in Turtlecreek Township behind Conrail-painted GP10 No. ... (more)

My wife Christina and our dog Shelby greet the southbound LM&M Railroad Easter Bunny Express behind Conrail-painted GP10 No. 7544 at Glosser Road just outside of Lebanon on an absolutely gorgeous ... (more)

Years after Conrail operated freight traffic in Lebanon after taking over the former CL&N trackage from Penn Central in 1976, a Conrail painted unit it back in town pulling passenger excursions on... (more)

CR 6080 leads an SD50 and SD40-2 into Horseshoe Curve on an early May afternoon. Scanned from a print.

Conrail ALSE passes the former Lehigh Valley EASTON tower in Easton, PA with a pair of SD60Ms in the lead. The train will soon be crossing the Delaware River into New Jersey. The tower would b... (more)

SENS brings a large block of empty clay slurry tanks south past the signal at CP7 in Bogota, NJ. NSSE and SENS typically handled blocks of clay cars, many of which were destined to/from New Engla... (more)

A uniquely Conrail consist in honor of Conrail's 46th Birthday. Conrail SECS-9 is led by a C39-8, SD50 and C32-8 combination. The train is passing the (then) new NYS&W locomotive facility in Rid... (more)

Ex CR 8666 also Ex Lehigh Valley 252 sits in the lonely Greenidge power plant railyard. The unit would be loaded on a trailer and prepared for transport to Williamsville Depot just two days later

One of twenty-five Conrail C36-7's hustle an eastbound away from the Indianapolis area.

Conrail's busy Chicago Line was ex-NYC territory with long stretches of tangent track and minimal grade. A pair of GP40s highball a westbound trailvan through Edgerton, OH - not far from the India... (more)

The old Lehigh Valley #273 will turn 71 years old in September. Showing obvious heritage from previous owner Conrail, she now spends her days working for Maryland Pig Iron of Illinois in Chicago's... (more)