Leading an Oak Island to Buffalo freight is a GP38 without dynamic brakes, originally ordered by the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines, but delivered to the Penn Central. No. 7670 was built wit... (more)

CR GP40 3153 with a switching job at Hillburn yard

Two EMDs best products lead an empty coal train along the Port Perry Branch. Photo taken from towering the Westinghouse Bridge.

The local switch job works Pitcairn yard. This scene was taken right before the reconstruction of Pitcairn into an intermodal facility.

The 4887 and 4889 are at the head end of an eastbound freight at the confluence of the Chickies Creek with the Susquehanna River. Both of these engines could be frequently found pulling the Broad... (more)

A new Conrail SD60M leads Union Pacific's Sharp to Los Angeles coal empty through rural Benjamin on Oct. 15, 1995.

Caboose 23512 tags along behind an SD45 helper set, westbound on No. 3 Track. The 23512 is a Conrail Class N-8B, created when the Penn Central modified their ex-New Haven Type NE-5 cabooses. The... (more)

Bethlehem Steel’s Grace Mine in Joanna, PA provided countless trainloads of iron ore for the company’s main steelmaking plant in Bethlehem, PA. Joanna was located on the Reading’s Wilmington... (more)

Got IT! Conrail Block Operator Jim Largent has successfully conveyed a Form D to Conrail conductor Mike Quigley at Derry Road in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The Form D authority would take the ALPI-0... (more)

Looking much like a mini Office Car Special, Conrail’s track geometry train rolls eastbound through Marysville, Pennsylvania.

Changes are in the offing for Conrail's Columbia Branch, as a westbound freight waits on a crew at Spring Street. Before too long, the catenary system will be removed, and the old PRR jointed-rai... (more)

A clean Conrail SD50 leads an eastbound coal train through Marysville, Pennsylvania, on its way to the Rockville bridge. On a warm May day, a large shade tree provides a great place to watch the a... (more)

Conrail block operator Jim Largent is in position to hoop up a NORAC Form D movement authority to the approaching Conrail train NSSE-3 - a train that at the time operated from Linwood, NC to Selki... (more)

A trainload of western Pennsylvania coal is headed into Enola yard. Lead B23-7 #1933 would soon be assigned to the Conrail track geometry train.

There’s an EMD back there, but the GE’s appear to be doing all of the work as a westbound manifest leaves Enola and joins the Middle Division.