Worcester bound Conrail freight "SEPW"(Selkirk to Providence & Worcester) slogs up the 1.4% grade to the summit of Hinsdale deep in the Berkshires on a cold November day. The crew has adorned the... (more)

Living in the Berkshires in the early 90's was a great way to capitalize on the Conrail's "blue boats" on the former NYC B&A. Looking back I can still hear the brace of Dash 8s as they chuffed t... (more)

Conrail C32-8 No. 6610, dressed in the "Ballast Express" scheme, was leading westbound manifest CAPI at Longfellow, PA on Feb. 15, 1998. Although I saw these units several times, on everything fr... (more)

One of CR's ugly, gray, Ballast Express units leads TV-203 on a Spring day. Those NS units were an indication of what was to come for this line a little over 2 weeks later after CR was divided up ... (more)

Junction City Mining (former CR Ballast Express) C32-8 8466 at Junction City, GA in February 2002.

Eastbound Conrail train TV6 was dropping downgrade east of Bancroft, MA on June 13, 1987, led by C32-8 No. 6619.

A rare C32-8 mingles with CSX power at Pot Yard. Between CSX, RF&P, NS, CR, and the D&H, one never knew what interesting power might show up at PY!

A rare C32-8 leads NS 111 east from Louisville as it heads for Danville and points south.NS 8547 was the former Conrail 6616 and later became NS 8462 before being retired.

One of only 10 C32-8s owned by Conrail leads an eastbound.

NS 8463 (former Conrail Ballast Express 6613) in Roanoke, VA in 2000. This locomotive is now retired from the NS roster and 8463 is worn by a former Conrail/LMS C40-8W.

With a friendly wave and some exhaust, one of the interchange trains from Guilford at Barber, MA accelerates out of CP-83 and on to Springfield and the Berkshires. Conrail only had 10 C32-8's, ref... (more)

All but one C32-8 were scrapped, 6 of Conrail's 10 went to NS before being purged fromt he roster.

Three of Conrail's battleship gray "Ballast Units" actually pulling a ballast train. There were only 10 C32-8's on Conrail's roster and all of them were painted in this scheme in the spring of 97... (more)

A classic Conrail lashup of big blue boats led by rare C-32-8 'camel' '6618' descends off the hill through North Adams Junction in Pittsfield Mass on the Boston Line on a sunny May afternoon.

Wrecked Ballast Express unit waits to be repaired at Altoona.