Southbound on "The Short Line" this Louisville-bound freighter gives premonitions of the upcoming merger and was a rare occurrence in those days. At this point they are slowing down for... (more)
Conrail's track geometry train backs into the shop area in Reading as it returns home from an over-the-road journey.
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.
Travelling the four-track great broad way, an eastbound manifest rolls along the Susquehanna River. The train is rolling into Banks interlocking as it nears the end of its journey on Conrail’s M... (more)
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)
Two of Conrail’s “Executive E’s” are being readied for their next journey outside the enginehouse where they reside. The 4022 exists today, repainted in its original scheme as Erie 833.
Pairs The symmetry of two back-to-back locomotives of the same model lends a pleasing element to any railroad photo. Here a pair of Conrail C425’s works the yard in Altoona, whil... (more)
Conrail’s C30-7A “class unit”, number 6550, is sandwiched by twenty percent of GE’s C32-8 production. Conrail purchased the only ten of the 3200 horsepower C-C’s that were produced. In ... (more)
A westbound Conrail freight doubles its train as it prepares to leave Allentown yard. There are two unusual locomotives in the consist. There’s an MT6 slug at the rear of the consist, probably ... (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.
A farmer working his field has his attention momentarily diverted by a westbound ballast train passing the old Reading RR signal near Mill Street. No. 7570 was built in October, 1956 as PRR GP9 N... (more)
