Less than a month before Conrail, the PC 4857 West leads its sister 4856 and a train of empty hoppers around the big curve near Chickies Rock. The 4857 and 4856 were both built by the PRR's Altoo... (more)

A 4-car set of owl-eyed MP54s pulls into Paoli on a mid-afternoon run. The basic design of these cars dated from 1915 when the PRR started to convert some of its standard P54 steam suburban coach... (more)

A Penn Central helper set shoves a mineral train westbound as a nearly-new Silverliner IV gets ready to head east to Philadelphia. The ex-PRR electrification from Paoli east is 100 years old this... (more)

The 4410 is eastbound, passing the L351-L352 signals by the parking lot of the Washington Boro United Methodist Church. The old PRR position lights have been replaced by modern hooded color-light... (more)

A pair of GG-1s switching tracks near the east end of Enola Yard. Note the wooden cat poles. The 4887 was built in April, 1939.

An unusually clean Penn Central GG-1 pulls the "National Limited" through the farmland of Lancaster County on its way to Harrisburg.

We’re standing on the Jersey Central right-of-way, watching a westbound 86-car Conrail train descend the ramp to the Lehigh Valley main line. This ramp was built as a result of the 1965 shared t... (more)

The eastbound Washington Section of the Broadway Limited is passing the L351-L352 signals adjacent to the Washington Boro United Methodist Church parking lot, preparing to switch onto the Columbia... (more)

An old Penn Central E8 that has seen much better days as it sits collecting rust. It belongs to the Mad River & NKP Museum in Bellevue, Ohio. Perhaps one day it'll be restored.

The consist matches the dull day as a westbound train crosses over the Lehigh Valley and approaches East Penn Junction. This helps to illustrate why early Conrail was so difficult to swallow for t... (more)

A set of light engines running from Saucon to Bethlehem illustrate the metamorphosis from Penn Central to Conrail. Of course, the lead unit is still wearing full PC garb, and the U33B is an early... (more)

7908-7939, blt 1969-71, single controls/std, paper air filter, DynBrake, 2600 gal tank.

The Poughkeepsie Bridge, July 1973. 212 feet above water, and 6768 feet long. Now, it is "...the longest footbridge in the world." A Penn Central-Erie Lackawanna run-through train rolls eastwa... (more)

I saw this engine for the first time back in 1974 on a work train. It had then a quick PC paint job with a small PC logo where the big one is in the picture and on each end under the headlight. It... (more)