Conrail local WHRE-99 crosses over to the former Reading westbound main line at Stowe, Pennsylvania. The siding in the foreground leads to the Pottstown Trap Rock quarry, which was a supplier of b... (more)

Passing the Flag at Stanley Flagg

After working the former PRR Pottstown Industrial Track in Pottstown, Conrail local WHRE-99 heads west on the former Reading main line at Stowe, P... (more)

Conrail’s track geometry train, operating as symbol GS-121, travels westbound through Mertztown, Pennsylvania. The consist, which included a dedicated B23-7, is returning to its home base in Rea... (more)

Georgetown Rock Train

A westbound Conrail manifest, largely made up of ballast cars, approaches Lewistown, Pennsylvania.

Passing the small yard in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, a train of empty hoppers rolls west on Conrail’s Middle Division.

Big Blue, With A Touch Of Red. While EMD SW8 8687 it shows its Conrail heritage more prominently, its original owner Lehigh Valley's red (273, 9/1951) is becoming more obvious. At Maryland ... (more)

On a bright and brisk morning, hotshot Boston bound van train TV-6 storms east past the Blue Seal Feeds Mill as it approaches Chatham Village. Note the watchful engineer spying the railfan as the ... (more)

The sun breaks through heavy clouds to light a pair of Conrail GP10’s. The rebuilt EMD’s are the local power serving Lewistown, Pennsylvania.

In April of 1983, Conrail 9232, an EMD NW-2, is working for its third owner. It was originally built in 1949 as Erie 425, and then became the Erie Lackawanna 425. Shown here, working the QD yard j... (more)

Before being rebuilt, and still wearing its Pennsylvania Railroad station signs, the station at Lewistown, Pennsylvania bears witness to the passing of the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Blue U... (more)

Empty hoppers roll west over Conrail’s Middle Division at Mifflin, Pennsylvania. Two B23-7’s will get the train to Altoona, but more power will be needed to get them around Horseshoe Curve.

Every weekend, Conrail gathered locomotives along the former Reading tracks serving Pennsylvania’s anthracite regions (now R&N), and sent them to Enola for servicing. The westbound move is seen ... (more)