Conrail #6082 leads an eastbound freight off the Porter Branch as the westbound Amtrak Lakeshore Limited races by nearing its final destination of Chicago.

No longer used, the sizable yard at the interchange point between the former Jersey Central and the Northampton & Bath is still largely intact in this 1979 view. Today, the line is single-tracked,... (more)

A year and a half into Conrail, locomotives in the new blue scheme were showing up more and more frequently, but solid blue lashups were elusive. Here a near-miss rolls west through Treichlers, Pe... (more)

An early Conrail repaint, SD40 6317, leads a Jersey Central GP9 and a patched Erie-Lackawanna SD45 westbound through Treichlers, Pennsylvania.

A quarry collapse that severed the Blandon Low Grade forced Conrail to reopen the Hill Track between Reading and Blandon. Here westbound empties enter the Hill Track at Blandon.

Harrisburg-bound freight rolls through Belt Line Junction. The tracks to the left are the Reading Belt Line, while the tracks to the right are the Reading main line to the Reading yard.

The progression of Conrail’s power for high speed intermodal service is seen in this photo of train Mail-9.The newest power is represented by two month-old B40-8’s, followed by one of the B36-... (more)

The times, they are a-changin’ – South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania has undergone quite a bit of change since the late 1970’s, and this image captures the beginning of the change. The Bethlehem S... (more)

An unusual mirror-image GP15-1/GP10/GP10/GP15-1 lashup leads Conrail train ALOI (Allentown – Oak Island) eastward across the Delaware River at Phillipsburg, NJ.

"40 Years Later, Conrail Still Lives in the Bronx" The Consolidated Rail Corporation, known to all of us as Conrail, was the Primary Class I railroad in the northeast created by the gover... (more)

Big Blue lives on in 2016, in southwestern Minnesota of all places, as this SW1200 lives out its days at a Cargill elevator along the Union Pacific between Windom and Worthington.

An empty Wisconsin Central ore train with borrowed CSX SD80MACs arrives at Steelton yard in Duluth for interchange with DM&IR. The train will load at the Minorca mine and unload at WC's former C&N... (more)

CR 6831 blasts out of the now closed Gallitzin tunnel in a cloud of diesel exhaust with a coal train in tow.

Rusty rails and relics. A privately owned GG-1 weathers yet another fall where it is currently stored on the Cooperstown & Charlotte Valley Railroad.

A pair of GP30's as helpers are shoving on the rear of a westbound that originated in Philadelphia. CR2231 wears Conrail lettering instead of the usual CR initials that we would normally see on a... (more)