Conrail GE C40-8 6037 at Buffalo, New York.

A pair of helpers on the rear of a westbound intermodal will cut off just ahead at Cresson and return to Altoona to shove the next westbound upgrade.

A pair of SD40-2s, still in Conrail paint, help on the rear of westbound mixed freight 11K.

Conrail local WHRE-99, a job that worked east from Reading along the Reading Belt Line and the former Reading main line, is seen here returning west at Stowe, Pennsylvania.

Apollo 8 was circling the Moon when GP40 No. 3247 was delivered to the Penn Central in December of 1968. Here it is 11 years later, in service with Conrail, westbound in the beautiful Susquehanna... (more)

One of Conrail’s twelve U23B’s inherited from the Lehigh Valley trundles west on the Pottstown Industrial Track in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. The Pottstown Industrial Track was one of several re... (more)

CR SD60M no. 5534 rolls an eastbound coal train through Porter, IN on the former NYC mainline on a humid June afternoon.

Westbound ore, pulled by an SD40-2 and two of its four-axle siblings, rolls past a pair of local-service cabooses and the yard office at Conrail’s Abrams yard near King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.... (more)

Back in Service. In late 1988, an up-turn in rail business forced Conrail to pull some GP30 and GP35 units out of storage. One of the re-activated GP30s is shown leading a coal train. ... (more)

A westbound Conrail train crosses the Rockville Bridge and heads for Enola yard. Tucked in behind the power is SEPTA FP7A 4372, possibly on its way from Wayne Junction in Philadelphia to its new o... (more)

A pair of Conrail SD50’s works a train of laded hoppers (coke from Bethlehem Steel?) west past the Allentown Yard hump leads.

Class units of Conrail’s C32-8 and C30-7A classes, joined by another C32-8, have dropped their westbound train on a hump lead, and are now proceeding to the west end of Allentown yard. All three... (more)

A Conrail Allentown yard job works the west end of the yard as morning fog lingers in the Lehigh River Valley. With Penn Central roots, Conrail’s fleet of nineteen U23C’s seemed to keep their ... (more)

Visiting power from western railroads was still relatively uncommon in the northeast in the 1980’s. Here a Union Pacific SD40-2 has come to Allentown, in a power set with a Conrail SD50 and a Co... (more)

A Conrail GP35 leads a CNW SD40-2 and UP SD40-2 on an eastbound coal train on the Indiana Harbor Belt. Tom Golden photo.