E-44 No. 4410 leads a Truc-Train eastbound on the recently-rebuilt Enola Branch in the summer of 1978. No. 4410 was built by GE for the PRR in May, 1961.

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)

Twin SD40-2’s lead a train west over the Schuylkill River on Conrail’s Lebanon Valley Line, on a bridge that still bears the lettering, “Reading Lines”, which was the logo of its previous ... (more)

A westbound Conrail manifest continues its journey toward Harrisburg as it is at the eastern end of the Lebanon Valley line. The bridge in the background is the North 4th Street overpass in Readin... (more)

New Holland Branch action, with one of Conrail's 100 GP15-1s in the lead, switching the R.R. Donnelley siding. These locomotives had a bit of a "tunnel motor" appearance, with the see-t... (more)

An essential step in firing a steam locomotive is the blow-down. This opens the boiler to atmospheric pressure just above the mudring, allowing the steam pressure above the water to force all of t... (more)

Bell-bottom pants and gray, dusty GG-1s; two icons of the mid-1970s. We're standing on the old Cly station platform waiting on the American Freedom Train, which is bringing the general public tra... (more)

Eastbound coal arrives at Conrail’s Allentown, Pennsylvania yard on the former Reading East Penn line. The N&W box car is on one of the tracks that curve to the right as part of the former Jerse... (more)

Got it! The engineer of an eastbound E33-powered freight grabs orders from the operator at COLA. The now-preserved CR 4604 (as VGN 135 in Roanoke, VA) is near the end of its operating days, with... (more)

Almost eight years after the Conrail merger, there were still “patch jobs” wandering around the system. Here a GP38-2 in the drab austerity scheme leads a set of power out of the west end of A... (more)

Where's the rails? The double-tracked electrified Columbia Branch has almost sunk into the ground by the late 70s, as a short local heads upgrade through the weeds to Lancaster.

The Dyers stone quarry has long been a major carload supplier along the former Reading Belt Line. On a crisp August morning, a set of fresh-looking Conrail power, four GP38-2’s and an SD40-2, ha... (more)

By 1985, not many Reading cast iron crossbucks were still in service. This one, guarding Elverson Road in Joanna, Pennsylvania, has little time left, as one of the final Grace Mine cleanout trains... (more)

On the pleasant autumn day of October 23, 1988, a trio of GE B36-7s lead a Conrail “TV” train storming westbound through Tunnelhill, Pennsylvania.

A "Conrail Quality" GP10 rests at the 16th Street Yard, Christmas Eve, 1992. This locomotive was originally built as a GP9 for the New York Central in October, 1955, and was upgraded by... (more)