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)

Amtrak’s Phase III Heritage Unit has been a regular on the Pennsylvanian for the past couple of weeks. Today it led the westbound train under the eastbound signals at Ronks, Pennsylvania ... (more)

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)

As lightweight passenger cars came into vogue on the Pennsylvania Railroad, some of the older cars ended up in maintenance of way service. Here three of those MW cars are placed east of Division S... (more)

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.

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.

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)

Steam at Rockville

In the sixty-plus years since the Pennsylvania Railroad dropped its fires, only abut five occasions come to mind when steam once again ran on the Great Broad Way... (more)

A few minutes before sunset, the daily run-through train from Hagerstown, Maryland passes Conrail’s Rockville Tower in Rockville, Pennsylvania.