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Conrail 8141 leads a rare U28B, another GP38-2, and a GP40-2 on a Westbound TV train at the crew change in Hornell, NY on May 5, 1979. There were only two U28B's on the Conrail roster, numbers 2822 and 2823.
The crew of Conrail train UPS has dropped their train of coal at Metropolitan Edison’s Portland Generating Station, seen in the distance, and is now headed for the Portland Diner to get a bite to eat. The power is westbound on the pre=Lackawanna Cutoff DL&W old main line. In the right distance and right foreground are two legs of a wye that lead to the Bangor & Portland Subdivision.
A trio of Conrail locomotives pull Southern Pacific’s RODVM through Riverton, Utah the afternoon of Sept. 18, 1995. The power consist includes C40-8W No. 6612, C40-8W No. 6176, and SD60M No. 5563.
Not exactly sure where this was taken at or what directions the trains were heading:{
I'll always remember, right!
Pretty sure it was near Pittsburgh on a hot and humid day in July of 1986.
BN SD45 leads a pair Conrail units east toward home at Hastings,MN. On Milw Joint EWD track. A K-25 stretch,oh well.
Conrail 8183 leads a quartet of GP38-2s across the Chenango River Bridge in Binghamton, NY on May 26, 1979. The light power had just dropped a coal train off down at Vestal.
Since the 1960’s, intermodal trains crossing the Susquehanna River on the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Rockville bridge have been a daily sight. Here an early Conrail version rolls west toward Marysville, Pennsylvania, as the day fades away. The SD45’s are gone, but the drab black and white paint has returned.
Westbound pigs roll along the Susquehanna River on Conrail’s Middle Division at Aqueduct, Pennsylvania.
When Conrail was established in April 1976, they immediately stopped operating the EL main west of Akron as a through route. They established a manual interlocking at South Street in Akron where trains could crossover to the EL main from the PC's former PRR CA&C (Cleveland, Akron, and Columbus), which was also the B&O mainline from Warwick. Here's an eastbound approaching South Street with 2 LV C628's and an EL U25B. The rusty rails leading away from the photographer is the former EL main.
Conrail U30B 2887 & GP38 8083 lead an Eastbound acoss the bridge over Canandaigua Outlet at Lyons, NY on September 3, 1978. The track in the foreground is the West leg of the wye to the Corning Secondary.
Early afternoon on Christmas Eve NS 66X is rolling down their last couple miles into Toledo as they cross over into the controlled siding at CP 295. With no crew available to continue east this is where the train will spend Christmas night. 12/24/2025
E/B CR mixed freight led by SD45 #6072 has an unusual consist containing a Cotton Belt B30-7 and two Southern Pacific B30-7's. The train is approaching River Road at the west end of Enola Yard.
On the Montreal Secondary, Conrail SD50 6751 leads train SEMC across the Raquette River at Potsdam, NY on May 8, 1988.
A Conrail local on comes around the south leg of the wye to the Pope’s Creek Secondary at Bowie, Maryland. The train has just left the Northeast Corridor, and will switch a premix concrete plant inside the wye.
Passing beneath the CTA Englewood branch and across the bridge over the Dan Ryan, a set of eastbound Conrail light power approaches the home signal at Englewood, in May 1984.
No longer used, the sizable yard at the interchange point between the former Jersey Central and the Northampton & Bath is still largely intact in this 1979 view. Today, the line is single-tracked, and there is one switch leading to the remnants of the N&B.
On a beautiful late winter morning, two SD50’s with Oak Island-bound tonnage, including an EMD switcher on a ferry move, come eastward from Allentown. The train is seen crossing the Lehigh River on the former Reading bridge in Bethlehem, and then crossing over from track one to track two after taking the connection to the former Lehigh Valley main line (Lehigh Line). Visible in the upper left is Bethlehem’s union station, and above that the building that was the Lehigh Valley Railroad’s Brighton Street office. The Lehigh & New England Railroad also had offices on Brighton Street.
A pair of Conrail SD50’s works a train of loaded hoppers (coke from Bethlehem Steel?) west past the Allentown Yard hump leads.
Conrail 8648 is an SW900m of obvious LV heritage resting at Binghamton, NY on July 16, 1978. SW switchers were common sights at many Conrail yards early on it seemed, in a variety of color schemes. I had spent the weekend on D&H's Richmondville Hill, and always preferred to take the long way back home, stopping at places like Oneonta, Binghamton, & Sayre along the way, mostly just getting roster shots of any power.
Conrail SDP-45 6668 and U33-C 6576 are at the engine terminal at Rochester, NY on March 25, 1979. Not sure why I was using the telephoto lens in tight quarters, otherwise I could have included that RS3m to the right.
Conrail 6732 - 6720 - 6000 lead OIEL at a farm just North of Andover, NY on December 31, 1987. This was still a somewhat doable angle for the WNYP, but alas they no longer have any regular activity on this section of trackage.
Here is what it looked like when the last big WNYP train ran.
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Until I came across this forgotten slide, I would have sworn that none of Conrail’s MT4 or MT6 slugs ever locked knuckles with an Alco road switcher of the type from which they were rebuilt. Here is proof that I was mistaken, as former PC RS11 7652 stands with the remains of former PC RSD12 6857 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Metrolink 842 pulls into Peekskill with 201 in its newly applied Conrail wrap. The design team at Metro-North really pulled out all the stops with these, they rank right up there with the NJT Geeps as a favorite commuter engine for me. The blue and yellow livery is similar to what Conrail applied to its FL9s during the short-lived Conrail commuter years.
Flowers at the Gravesite
Conrail GP9B 3807 awaits the torch in the Altoona dead line. The curvature of the frame is a good indicator of the cause of death.
Not the best image I ever took, but this shows what the East end of the Hornell yard looked like at ZY in Hornell, NY. Conrail freights would make setoffs and pickups here. CR 2967 and a mixed set of power is making a pickup at ZY on October 7, 1979.
Conrail train PYSE (Potomac Yard – Selkirk) pours it on as it rolls through SEPTA’s West Trenton , New Jersey station. The train is approaching the end of SEPTA’s former Reading suburban electrification, and will soon be in freight-only territory
Wow! An unpatched Conrail locomotive! :D
A Norfolk Southern helper behind a Conrail SD60M locomotive both lead the front of a slow moving Norfolk Southern train. My friend, Sam (who moved away to another town in Illinois kind of far from Edwardsville the day after this bike ride. The reason we did the ride was because he was moving.) We had to wait almost 2 hours for this train, which is unusually long for this particular railroad line. We think that there must have been something wrong with the tracks, like a damage delay, which is why there was such a long time that we had to wait, because usually trains come through on this line once every hour (and many times even more frequently than that!)
Conrail U23B 2788 reaches the end of the Pottstown Industrial Track in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and joins the former Reading main line at MP41, just west of Pottstown.
Austere is the word to describe Conrail’s minimalist effort to patch this ex-Lehigh Valley SW1. All LV markings have been painted over, but there is no evidence that this is a Conrail engine anywhere. The number boards do carry the Conrail number 8415. The train is entering the small yard between JU and Steel Tower in Bethlehem. Judging by the short consist and the presence of a caboose, I would guess that the train is returning from the former CNJ Minsi Trail Branch, renamed the Preemansburg Industrial Track when the Lehigh Valley assumed operations in 1972.
Conrail 8124 - BAR 80 - CR 6691 are on an Eastbound working at Goodman Street Yard in Rochester, NY on May 8, 1979. After I got my first SLR camera I kept the old Graphlex in the glove box of my truck. I would use it if I came across something when I was out and about, in this case on my way to work. I always checked what was around the East end of Goodman Yard on my way in to work, which is where the twin smoke stacks stand above the 3rd & 4th car. I could grab a quick pic or two and then head over to work.
One of Conrail’s observation cars from the office car fleet needed to be wyed in Reading. A lowly GP15-1 was elected to be an “Executive E Unit” for a few short minutes.
Conrail 2034, with 2038 trailing, are parked at the North end of Shire Oaks Yard in Elrama, PA on January 1, 1998. They brought in the last WISO-84 of 1997 the previous day. The ex MGA Super-7's were used primarily out of Shire Oaks at the time, and were the standard power on WISO-84 until the MAC's arrived.
An eastbound Conrail auto parts train rolls through Ardara, Pennsylvania. Four GP40/GP40-2’s was typical power for the hotter trains during that time frame.
Metro North's OCS/inspection train runs north on the Harlem Line through the station at Chappaqua, NY. FL9 inspired Conrail heritage P32AC-DM 2O1 leads "beachball" #208 and the three office cars on a trip to and from the end of the line at Wassaic.
Stacks capped, this former New York Central NW2 has probably run its last. Shown standing in the Altoona yard, it is coupled to an unusual patched ex-Reading fifty foot boxcar. Generally, patched Conrail rolling stock did not receive the wheel on rail logo.
A landslide that closed Conrail’s Blandon Low Grade between Blandon and Belt Line Junction, Pennsylvania caused a hasty reactivation of the “Hill Track”, more formally known as the Laureldale Secondary. The Hill Track was the original portion of the East Penn line between Reading and Blandon via Laureldale. With its 1.1% grades and slow-order trackage, the Hill Track was a bottleneck that caused the rerouting of much of Conrail’s traffic between New York and Harrisburg. Here empty hoppers arrive at Reading Yard after negotiating the hill.
Local lore in the Allentown area was that Conrail’s ex-Lehigh & Hudson River C420’s were intended to be run until they had problems, and would then be retired. They were also not to be repainted. Nonetheless, one rolled out of the Bethlehem roundhouse with a coat of Conrail blue paint. An unsubstantiated story says that the unknown responsible employee was called on the carpet for this infraction. It was still a neat sight to see, as the original L&HR paint was dirty and worn. Here the unit with the unauthorized rebranding stands with an unrepainted sister in the Bethlehem servicinge area.
Conrail 3636 in Reading colors leads a Westbound light engine move at West Avenue in Rochester, NY on May 30, 1977. I scanned this from an 8 x 10 B&W print that I developed in photography class in high school.
With the Delaware Water Gap looming in the background, the crew of Conrail train UPS continues to the Portland Diner to get a bite to eat. I was out with a friend, and we decided to follow UPS when we saw it in Bethlehem. Somewhere along the way, we ran into the late Walter Schopp, who was also following UPS. We caravanned all the way to Portland, and when we completed this shot, Walter, who was a tall, large-framed man that never missed a diner or mom-and-pop restaurant, suggested that we try the diner. He and I both decided on peach pie, and I asked for it to be heated on the grill with a scoop of ice cream. Walter followed my lead, and until the last time that I saw him, he always suggested taking a trip to Portland for pie.
Another shot with no clue as to where it was taken:{
This box of slides starts at Pittsburgh and ends at Willard, Ohio so somewhere between those 2 locations!
The Conrail went over the Chessie at this location and also looks like they did some interchange traffic here as well.
Or they did at one time as the track appears to be pretty weeded over!
I do remember that we were set up down on the Chessie tracks when a Conrail train stopped so we climbed up the embankment to shoot it.
The very friendly crew on Conrail SD50 #6751 invited us into the cab and while we were talking to the crew, a Chessie train passed by and we were extremely bummed that we missed it.
The Conrail crew mentioned that we didn't want to take pictures of that "other railroad" but it seemed that every crossing we went to on this trip, we shot Conrail trains but the other railroads were always MIA!
Oh well, I did manage a cruddy shot of the Chessie from the engine cab window and also this picture of Conrail GP40-2 #3378 meeting us.
Back to the location, any help would be greatly appreciated!