Conrail train PYSE (Potomac Yard – Selkirk) spent a lot of its journey under wires, travelling the Northeast Corridor from Washington to Philadelphia, and former Reading commuter lines from Nort... (more)

In urban regions, obtaining a right of way for public utilities can require some creative engineering. This was the case when the Philadelphia Electric Company developed its 220 kilovolt system in... (more)

Two ex-New York Central rotary plows survived into Conrail’s roster. The first, NYC X-659, built by Leslie in 1889, became PC/Conrail 64599 and survives unrestored in the Buffalo area. The seco... (more)

Three 1965 products of EMD, all SD35’s, lead local train WJAL-18 west through what once was Richards yard on the Lehigh Valley on the last day of 1983. The PRR/PC unit is still a “patch job”... (more)

Rio Grande 346 takes a spin on the turntable at Golden. The 1881 Consolidation currently appears as it did in the mid-1930s when leased to Colorado & Southern - the C&S Ridgway "Beartrap&quo... (more)

Carrying an unfathomable amount of Tropicana orange juice, the five-day-a-week Bradenton, FL to Jersey City, NJ orange juice train passes the University of Pennsylvania's Franklin Field as it trav... (more)

Conrail's track geometry train sails east through Bailey on the Middle Division.

A pair of clean GP10's switch the west end of Enola yard. They look far better than the NS power currently performing the same tasks.

Conrail's "Executive E's" are making track speed as they pull an office car special through Port Kennedy.

Enola has been, and continues to be, a place to find variety and unexpected surprises. Here a resident, relatively uncommon, U23C switches the hump while a variety of first- and second-generation ... (more)

A consecutively numbered pair of C30-7A's lead the Saucon Drill through Bethlehem Union Station.

A set of light engines running from Saucon to Bethlehem illustrate the metamorphosis from Penn Central to Conrail. Of course, the lead unit is still wearing full PC garb, and the U33B is an early... (more)

The Conrail office car train passes the still-operating Bethlehem Steel complex on a crisp December morning.

Over eight years after the formation of Conrail, patched units were still floating around, including this one leading a trainload of coal bound for the Bethlehem Steel coke works up the South Beth... (more)

Three Conrail Schenectady products are on the leads at the Altoona backshop. The RS-27 is apparently in for truck work, as it is sitting on shop trucks. The two former Reading C424's are most like... (more)