A Port Road coal train shot on Kodak Tri-X Pan film, using a 135 mm telephoto lens. No. 2806 was built by GE in October, 1977.

A westbound Conrail freight swings under the ex-Pennsylvania Railroad signals at McElhattan, Pa.

The end of the Conrail electric years, as a rented crane yanks the oil-filled transformer from its place behind the 4412's cab. No. 4412 was built by GE for the PRR in June, 1961.

The 4445 still has its yellow PRR-style numerals on the cab as it passes under the Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge. You can also see the painted-over PRR lettering and keystones on its flanks. 4445... (more)

Two ancient GG-1s with a bay-window caboose right behind their drawbars haul a manifest up the center freight track. No. 4811 was built by General Electric in July, 1935.

Eastbound manifest Ayer

Two "Hoovers" (they sounded like giant vacuum cleaners) power a westbound mineral train in the summer of 1978, during the rebuilding of the Enola Branch. Note the old stick rail between... (more)

A big U33B smokes up the catenary, northbound on No. 3 Track by Substation No. 17. The 2948 was built by GE for the Penn Central in December, 1968.

Where are the tracks? Two E-44s and two GG-1s power a westbound freight over the weed-covered Columbia Branch. The 4429 was built by GE for the PRR in January, 1962.

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)

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

Westbound empty hoppers approach Lehigh Gap in the last light of a March day. The history of the residence shown is unknown, but it is unusual that someone managed to place a structure on the narr... (more)

Conrail suffered a major service interruption on July 24, 1984. Around 5 o’clock in the morning, westbound train OIIN was passing the Berks Products stone quarry in Temple, Pennsylvania when sev... (more)

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.