On September 22, 1997, the ritual of passing up NORAC Form D on Conrail's Harrisburg Line was nearing the end of its necessity as CTC was just a few short years away. The hooping up of orders req... (more)
Conrail at its zenith puts on a great show on one of the finest fall days in the Berkshires.
Another of a seemingly endless string of Conrail manifests arrives from Harrisburg on a warm March day. Visible in the upper right beyond the train is the dead line, where many not-yet-scrapped tr... (more)
This CR freight is running on former CNJ trackage in the Lehigh River valley just south of the Lehigh Gap. The lead loco, CR3129, was later acquired by the DRGW, and the New Jersey Zinc plant her... (more)
When the Roadrailer service first started in the mid 1990's the trains were limited to 25 trailers. Over time as the service proved itself and expanded so did the train length.
Early Conrail repaints displayed a multitude of variants, with the only constant being that they were blue with white lettering. Lettering font, full spelling of “Conrail”, can opener herald, ... (more)
After Conrail took delivery of fifty C30-7A’s in 1984, Allentown became the home for about a half-dozen of them. Here one of them switches the west end of the yard.
Factory Fresh Conrail Quality: New GE C40-8W units are ready to pull a Union Pacific Wattis Plateau to Long Beach coal train at Provo Yard on January 25, 1995. These units were part of a fleet of ... (more)
Two Conrail-blue E44s lead a mineral train westbound at the bend in River Road at the south end of the "Boro." Conrail had just finished rebuilding their Enola Branch at that time; note ... (more)
A Roger Puta photograph
Ex-NYC SW7 Dead-in-Tow. A Roger Puta photograph
The Boston Line was always known as a haven for GE power during both the Penn Central and Conrail eras. This ML-482 was no exception, being led by a six-axle GE trio of two C30-7As bracketing a C... (more)
