A Conrail manifest passes the former Jersey Central station at Northampton. Pennsylvania late on a March afternoon.

Early Conrail locomotive repaints were less than consistent with respect to lettering style and placement. Cabooses did not escape the inconsistencies, either, as witnessed by this former PRR N5B ... (more)

Back when the weeds were much lower, it was possible to shoot from a low angle at the foot of Christie St in Bogota. A 98-car SECS-9 has passed Ridgefield Park station and is approaching CP5 behi... (more)

A nice variety of standard cab EMDs leads Conrail TV-10 through fresh snow at CP 7 in Bogota, NJ on the River Line.

An empty coal train passes through CP Burn and the site of Reading's East Penn Junction yard in Allentown, PA shortly before sunset. This train would have originated at one of the power plants al... (more)

Wide Vision Pan

Tonnage is moving in both directions at Slope interlocking on Conrail’s ex-PRR main line in Altoona, Pennsylvania. While a westbound intermodal begins its climb t... (more)

The Reading had twenty extended vision cabooses built by International Car Company in 1970 and 1971. When the railroad was dissolved as part of Conrail’s formation, they were equally divided bet... (more)

Two Early 1950’s Cabooses

Two Conrail cabooses of similar vintage but quite different designs are on the rear of a train at the former Reading yard in Rutherford, Pennsylvania. O... (more)

Conrail train APB-1’s power is travelling on the original DL&W main line (the Old Road) in Portland, Pennsylvania/ After dropping its cars in the small yard, the power is now moving to the other... (more)

Conrail ALCS departs Allentown Yard behind an SD50 and C39-8.

An SD40-2/C32-8 combination substitutes for the usual SD38/MT6 set assigned to Allentown Hump. The pair has dropped into the class yard to grab a cut of cars.

Conrail train APB-1 has dropped its cars in the yard in Portland, Pennsylvania, and is now working its way out of the east end of the yard. The stacks in the right background are part of Metropoli... (more)

Conrail train APB-1 has arrived in Portland, Pennsylvania, and the power is positioned to allow the crew to visit the Portland Diner. When first delivered, Conrail’s ten C30-7’s had stars unde... (more)

With the more or less standard power set of the day for trailvans - Dash8-40B, B36-7, GP-40-2 - a westbound van rolls underneath the classic Pennsy signal bridge at Book's crossing that was to las... (more)