Conrail 3192 leading the APL double stack train up Gulf Summit in September of 1986.

Westbound Susquehanna Sea-Land stack train NTV-9 gets a start on the Gulf Summit grade just west of Deposit, New York. The NYS&W has assigned three C430’s a C420, and a CF7 to the train, but the... (more)

NKP 587 pulls an Indiana Transportation Museum passenger excursion southbound on Conrail's former Pennsy Vandalia Railroad line from Logansport, IN to Indianapolis, IN. Having just crossed the Wab... (more)

The Conrail Rome local getting ready to pick up the NYSW 3006 to take it back to Utica. Photo taken from the ( somewhat shaky ) roof of Rome Locomotive Works. The N&W caboose on the right belonged... (more)

The semaphores, code lines and jointed rail of the former Erie made the line seem as if a railroad that time had forgotten - for awhile. Mist rises from the Canisteo River as CR 6344 brings a west... (more)

Conrail SD40 6280 leads a train heading south across Iona Island, on the western bank of the Hudson River. (Stoney Point, New York – August 1984). Ed Robinson photo, Craig Walker collection... (more)

Tom Golden photo.

On an autumn early evening CR 5577 and 5583 have 143 cars in tow (with helpers) as the train passes beneath the 2407 signal bridge coming out of Scotch Run curve on its way up the mountain.

The presence of a Conrail SW7 and NW2 in electrified territory was not unusual – it commonly occurred in electrified lines of Pennsylvania, New York Central, New Haven, and Lackawanna lineage. T... (more)

Four years into Conrail’s existence, the engine terminal in Reading, Pennsylvania was still frequented by former Reading switchers in Reading paint. Here an SW900 is in the company of two SW1001... (more)