After the crew has ensured that there will be no derailments due to ice and snow in the switch, Conrail’s North Penn local spots a car in Hatfield, Pennsylvania.

A pair of clean Conrail GP38-2s reverse east for Paterson Yard after arriving at Ridgewood Junction from the Bergen County Line. This extra move was to pick up a cut of trash flats from Paterson.

One of those shots I almost didn't bother to shoot at the time but now so glad that I did. An outlawed Oak Point/Bronx to Selkirk manifest idles beside CP-114 on the Hudson Line on a cold April... (more)

These three SD40-2s, CR 6407, 6408, & 6406, were built August, 1977. It appears this is their maiden trip east from builder EMD at LaGrange, Ill., as they descend the grade at Slope on the Pittsbu... (more)

Conrail SECS-9 rolls through CP 5 just before sunset behind a pair of SD80MACs.

The engineer eases RJC-02 to 10mph through Belford. Track conditions across the RJCP system were less than ideal at this time, heat caused numerous kinks on all of the Pa Lines' subdivisions. Moth... (more)

Conrail local WJAL-19, which worked between Allentown, and Packerton, Pennsylvania, is poised to return to Allentown in the late afternoon light. To the right is the shell of the Lehigh Valley’s... (more)

Double-stack trains are an integral part of today’s railroad scene, but they were cutting edge in the mid-1980’s. Most west-coast and southeastern ports were served by rail lines that could ac... (more)

A westbound Conrail train, most likely OIBU (Oak Island – Buffalo), nears the top of the grade at Gulf Summit, New York.

Like Old Times

Conrail MP15’s 9629 and 9630 lead local WHRE-10 onto the Reading & Columbia Branch at Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania. The EMD’s, former Reading 2779 and 2780, resp... (more)

What appears to be a Bethlehem Steel coke train from Saucon yard rolls westbound on Conrail’s Lebanon Valley Line at Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania.

An eastbound hopper train threads its way across the westbound main of Conrail’s Lebanon Valley Line at Wyomissing Junction, Pennsylvania. The train is entering the track that connects Wyomissin... (more)

A clean, but eclectic, mix of Conrail power leaves the yard in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The mix includes a C36-7, an SD50, a U36B, an SD38, and an MT6 slug. The latter two are a yard set that like... (more)

An SD45 and a pair of GP40-2s accelerate a southbound Conrail freight through the station at North Elizabeth, NJ, on a spring morning.

There were still four tracks up the mountain in 1978 when this 1964-built ex-PRR SD35 was leading three other EMDs west of Horseshoe Curve. No. 2 track was removed in the 1980s.