Nothing quite like a big Alco Century... these were the most lovely of brutes, even a former Penn Central one that had been patched for Conrail. Regarding the black dirt, this was the Pit at Meado... (more)
This was PO87 (The Ordinary). The Ordinary worked Paterson, Suffern, Greycourt, Middletown, and Port Jervis. On this day it came up the Bergen County Line and then went down to Paterson on the Mai... (more)
A Conrail freight rumbles eastbound between Otis and Pinola, Indiana, on the railroad’s busy Chicago to Elkhart main line on the morning of February 11, 1995.