HEMAN OK May 15 1978 -- Two SD45-2s haul a mixed freight on their way west. In the top right dunes at Little Sahara State Park are visible. The train has just changed crews at Waynoka, crossed the... (more)

The Milwaukee Road had 2 extended vision cabooses and 1 of them rests in the yard in Green Bay, WI.

What has to be the oldest piece of equipment on Conrail’s roster stands within the Reading shop complex. Ninety two years old at the time of this 1983 photo, this scale test car was built by the... (more)

NORTH ENID OK Aug 1977 -- Rock Island U30C 4596 is tied down just south of the Breckinridge Road grade crossing.

A modern cupola caboose brings up the rear of an eastbound BN manifest at Tuscor, MT.

Idling away the time until it returns to Avon.

On a roster dominated by big six-axle units these two units were almost orphans. Here they wheel and EB Conrail train through the interlocking. This was a nice day trip from Louisville for some ... (more)

CLOVIS NM May 25 1985 -- Santa Fe C30-7 8087 pauses at the west end fuel racks. Scanner traffic identified the train as 189.

An eastbound SP manifest cuts in a mid-train helper at Bena. In a moment the man on the ground will raise his hands to indicate to the engineer that he's approaching a "hook."

A grizzled veteran looking good in blue. Photo by Mike Dolenski, from my collection.

In the early days of Conrail, all of the six-axle Alco Centuries were based in Ohio for heavy drag freight service, and the epicenter was Mingo Junction. A long weekend visit yielded less of the b... (more)

For lack of a better name I guess you could call it Conrail crud, sort of a mix of road dirt and some kind of greenish fungus that splotched up older units. It looked contagious. This ex-PRR uni... (more)

Fallen flag boxcars in pre-graffiti days lead Conrail's N5B caboose No. 22874 over the old stone arch bridge at the confluence of the Chickies (or Chiques) Creek and the Susquehanna River. The 22... (more)

E-44 No. 4410 leads a Truc-Train eastbound on the recently-rebuilt Enola Branch in the summer of 1978. No. 4410 was built by GE for the PRR in May, 1961.

Conrail’s Allentown Local to Washington, New Jersey, WJAL-18, enters the former Lackawanna Phillipsburg Branch from the ex-Jersey Central main line at Phillipsburg, New Jersey. This local was ab... (more)