Helper set.

The roundhouse at Conrail’s Conway Yard is mostly empty, but the outside turntable tracks are teeming with six-axle Alco Centuries assigned to drag freight service. Colors of the Lehigh Valley, ... (more)

Conrail’s Conway Yard was one of the hubs for its six-axle Alco Centuries assigned to drag freight service. Multiple C628’s, C630’s and C636’s can be seen in this overview of the outdoor t... (more)

Cheating the Executioner

By the time that this photo was taken in May, 1979, Conrail’s big Alco’s were making their last stand in Ohio ore service. They would soon be cut up, b... (more)

Led by nose-to-nose SW1500’s, Conrail local WHRE-99 crosses the rain-swollen Schuylkill River in the shadow of Metropolitan Edison’s Titus Generating Plant. WHRE-99 originated in Reading, and ... (more)

The standard helper set of the era, a pair of SD40-2s, shove a westbound manifest past the block station (as Pennsy referred to its towers) at MG on an April day that yielded quite a snowstorm. ... (more)

An overcast autumn afternoon on the mountain is embellished with a respectable run of traffic, as usual. This time a westbound has pipe loads on the head-end as it snarls beneath the 2426 signal b... (more)