Westbound #5, the Rock Island Quad Cities Rocket, pulls into Joliet Union Station with two coaches and a very dirty E unit on the point.

When Conrail first decided upon blue and white as its corporate image, quite a few units were painted without the correct lettering, and without the wheel-on-rail “can opener” logo. Outlying s... (more)

One of Conrail’s former Erie/EL E8’s escaped the fate of its roster mates, who gave up their prime movers to the DeWitt Geep RS3 re-engine program. Shortly after the consolidation, Conrail’... (more)

Only two of Conrail’s immediate predecessors rostered E8’s, and both contributed examples to the Conrail roster. Many of the Penn Central’s large roster of the EMD passenger units were conv... (more)

653 waits at Blue Island Round House with a mate.

After pulling off their train in order to make way for the GG1 waiting in the distance, a pair of Penn Central E8s pull across the manually operated grade crossing and head towards the engine hous... (more)

Nearly 40 years ago, while a 15-year-old pup, I got up early one morning and went into work with my dad. He dropped me at Penn Station Newark and I rode a Conrail North Jersey Coast Line train to ... (more)

Rock Island train to Chicago with two private cars stops at La Salle/Peru Station

The North Coast Limited lead by CB&Q E8A 9947A at Eola, IL on September 10, 1964. The time would have been a little after 2 pm. The train is headed east through Eola Yard. Eola is a uninco... (more)

A Grenada Railway Polar Express excursion cuts through the cold December rain on a trip to the "North Pole" located in nearby Pope. Former CNW E8 No. 515 and a GRYR GP38-2 do the ... (more)

A cosmetically restored ex-C&NW EMD E8, now in Louisville & Nashville colors, sits at the L&N Railpark Museum in Bowling Green, as a model train show brings a crowd to the museum.

SLRG 515, a former CNW E8A, holds in Horn Lake for an excursion train along the Grenada Railway.

One never knew what to expect from Amtrak on the Thanksgiving holiday between Milwaukee and Chicago. Here a Metra E8 leads MILW commuter cars thru Oak Creek in November of 1991. 518 was ex-CNW 503... (more)

SLRG 515 trails on this Fall color excursion as it crosses the bridge over Coldwater River.

TCRM 6902 sits in the museum track beside of the Nashville and Eastern freight yard.