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I decaled and weathered this Penn Central SD45 and lent it to my friend Kyle (who took this photo) to enjoy for a while. He took this loco, along with his blue SD45, and some of his freight cars to another friend's railroad, that of Dave Weber.
This hobby is a lot more fun with good friends who can team up like this to share trains, railroad, tips, ideas, photos, etc.
A Penn Central U25B waits as a mixed freight passes on the far track. I photographed this scene on a foggy New Year's Eve on my Garden Railroad.
A Penn Central U25B waits as a mixed freight passes on the far track. I photographed this scene on a foggy New Year's Eve on my Garden Railroad.
Penn Central delivered a load of glass insulators but something happened and the load must have shifted.
I modernized the roof of this boxcar, weathered it, and made a load of boxes out of a paper bag. A friend of mine 3D printed the insulators which I painted into different shades of greens (and blues) using a set of paint for glass.
Zeiss Milvus 50mm Makro Planar @ f/13
Late in 1976 a lone SD45 pusher, still wearing Penn Central lettering, is working uphill behind a freshly painted blue Conrail caboose on the end of a mixed freight somewhere on the Pittsburgh line.
Actually, this is of course my backyard railroad and the caboose is unweathered to look like it is freshly blue, while the other cars and the loco are customized (patched and weathered) to look the part of an early Conrail freight.
May 3, 1975 was the kind of gray day where I'd find something else to do now. But I ventured down to Mingo Jct and got this pair of EMD's working the north end of the PC yard. Glad I did, it was an impressive yard. Shot off of the N&W (now W&LE) main. And no, I didn't shoot the Clinchfield Cushion Car.
Norfolk Southern's Penn Central heritage unit splits a pair of Pennsylvania Railroad position lights in North Robinson, Ohio.
Penn Central Baldwin S12 switcher #8168 leads an MOW train of air dump cars westbound on the Port Road. The train will enter Williams Tunnel just ahead in a few seconds, August 1972. At this point in time it had been about two months since the devastating floods from Tropical Storm Agnes which flooded and washed out much of the northeast railroads including the Penn Central's Port Road. One can assume from this train that it was involved in rebuilding the line.
Original Kodachrome slide by Walter Schopp, my collection.
The authentic looking Penn Central heritage SD70ACe rounds the S curve in Shawsville, VA as it leads westbound 11E on the Christiansburg District. With NS starting to cycle the EMD heritage SD70ACes through the paint shop, let's hope this one gets a turn in the paint booth soon.
A pair of G's with freight have just entered the NEC at "Lane" and by my 1970 Buick Skylark Custom in the empty parking lot at North Elizabeth, NJ.
2-1976
A caboose hop with an SD35 and SD45 rolls through East St. Louis of the Eads Bridge, which is now dedicated to light rail. Note the lineup of Vermont Railway trailers at bottom right. J. David Ingles photo, Brian Schmidt collection
A Penn Central GP35/GP38-2 duo leads a piggyback train west out of Allentown Yard at East Penn Junction. The intermodal traffic will continue to go through the yard until the weed-grown track in the foreground, the connection between the East Penn line and the former Lehigh Valley main line, can be rebuilt to accommodate the traffic.
EMD power is in abundance as a Penn Central SD40 teams up with a patched Conrail SDP45 and a patched SD40 to lead an empty hopper train into Bennington Curve, about a mile east of Tunnelhill, Pennsylvania. Two tracks over, a helper set consisting of an early repaint SD40 and a patched SD45 drift east toward Altoona. This was my first trip to the Horseshoe Curve area, and it seemed that there was always activity on at least one of the four tracks.
Conrail, CR U33B #2966 -U25B #2605 - #2514 -GP38 #8079, with WM-1, northbound on the ex-NYC River Line at Teanack, New Jersey. September 3, 1977. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
(SEE & HEAR)---Bangor and Aroostook, BAR GP38 82-Conrail SD45 6156 -GP38-2 8027, with train ABPB-1 on the ex-Reading line at CP Burn, Allentown, Pennsylvania. October 22, 1977. Jack D Kuiphoff photo © video
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(SEE & HEAR)---Conrail, CR GP38 7861 -U25B 2607 -GP40 3014 -U23B 2759- GP35 3624, with a new crew and symbol ALOI-6 is about to leave Allentown, Pennsylvania. December 16, 1978. Jack D Kuiphoff photo © video
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Pittsburgh and Lake Erie, PLE GP38 #2040 -U28B #2819 -GP38 #2033, empty hopper trains ready to head to the mines on the Monongahela Railway, at Newell, Pennsylvania. May 6. 1987. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
#2040, built as PC #7818, 11/1969.
#2819, built 3/1969.
#2033, built as PC #7785, 10/1969.
This Penn Central boxcar started life as a PRR but I patched it for PC. The prototype for this build lasted through Conrail in its PC livery so I thought this would be a great car to model.
I made the boxes for the interior load using brown paper bags.
The car is seen here on a friend's garden railroad for his first open house after completing his lovely mainline.
The NS Penn Central heritage, looking like a true Penn Central engine, leads 61U west on the former Virginian through Leesville, Virginia.
The Penn Central Heritage Unit is seen leading NS train 21Z on track 2 at Pettisville, OH on the Chicago Line. At CP 327 in Archbold, 21Z will cross back to track 1. The headlight in the distance on track 1 is 25N, which is starting to move again after holding back at the first grade crossing east of Pettisville.
(SEE & HEAR)---CR, Conrail GP40-2 #3312 leads two other GP40's with an eastbound trailer train on the Pittsburgh mainline at, Trafford, Pennsylvania. August 25, 1990. Jack D Kuiphoff video © photo
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(SEE & HEAR)---Conrail, CR SD40-2's #6283 -#6239 -#6361 -#6311, eastbound mp247.1, Horseshoe Curve, Altoona, Pennsylvania. October 10, 1989. Jack D Kuiphoff photo © video
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Conrail, CR GP38-2 8081, leads SEER-6, at CP-132, Selkirk, New York. July 1, 1978. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
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Conrail, CR GP38 #7990 on the siding to the Southwest Secondary picking up a coal train, as SD45-2 #6661 hustles east on the Pittsburgh Mainline at CP RADE, Radebaugh, Greensburg, Pennsylvania. September 30, 1985. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
#7990. built as PC GP38, 6/1972.
#6661, built as EL #3676, 11/1972.
Conrail, CR B36-7 #5022 leads 11 other units on a westbound at Jeannette, Pennsylvania on the ex-PRR Pittsburgh mainline.. March 10, 1985. Jack D Kuiphoff photo©
The mighty EJ&E 610 and 924 pull L&N coal loads from the Penn Central yard. This is on the connector that parallels Kennedy Avenue in Schererville, Indiana. However, to railroaders and foamers it's (and always will be) Hartsdale.
Triple-header on the New Haven Line. New Cannan Branch in foreground. May 1974. Otto Vondrak collection.
New York area commuter service to the Jersey shore on the former New York & Long Branch was one of the last strongholds of E units. Here a Penn Central E8A stands near the engine house lead in South Amboy, New Jersey.
A short Amtrak train for Chicago swings over First Street in downtown Milwaukee in November 1972. Russ Porter photo, Brian Schmidt collection
Lehigh Valley, LV #630 C628 at ex-PC Meadows terminal, Kearny, New Jersey. December 11, 1976. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
Built as, LV #630 C628, November 1965.
LV #630>CR #6726.
(SEE & HEAR)---Conrail, CR SD40-2's #6283 -#6239 -#6361 -#6311, eastbound mp247.1, Horseshoe Curve, Altoona, Pennsylvania. October 10, 1989. Jack D Kuiphoff photo © video
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Conrail, CR SD60 6854- C39-8 6020, just east of Horse shoe curve on the ex=PRR Pittsburgh mainline, Altoona, Pennsylvania. October 10, 1989. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
A Penn Central U33C leads an early Conrail freight across the Lehigh River at Allentown, Pennsylvania. This unit was in the first order of U33C’s delivered by GE, between February and April of 1968.
39 years before my previously uploaded shot at Wenona Yard was taken, Penn Central was still operating the former New York Central in Bay City. Present are U23Bs 2741 and 2747, U28B 2823 (one of just 2 U28Bs on the PC roster), GP40 3009, and extended cab GP38 7822. Before Conrail's inception in 1976, Penn Central would sell off their line from Saginaw to Bay City and Midland to the Grand Trunk Western, while the line north of Bay City to Mackinaw City would be sold to the Detroit & Mackinac. 15 years later, the Central Michigan's fleet of U23Bs would call Wenona home as well.
A scanned slide from my collection, originally taken by B Carlson.
I am headed home on the National Limited after visiting a friend during Halloween weekend and on departing Paoli I captured a few images out of the rear window of the train, one of which is this E44 shoving on (and I'm guessing here) the rear of an ore train departing Philly for the Pittsburgh area.
10-30-1977
After a delay thanks to idiot kids trespassing around CP West Lang, Eastbound Intermodal 26E arrives at CP John at the west end of Morrisville Yard with a colorful lash-up. Also - I agree with the sentiment left behind the cab, and whoever did that should get employee of the month!
The Kaskaskia Regional Port District railroad runs west from Lenzburg, IL with 30 limestone empties from Prairie States Generating Station, dropped off minutes earlier by CN's L544.
This railroad used to have some interesting ex-Katy and Frisco power. Today it's KRRC SW1500 1117, reportedly built as SP 2532, and GMTX GP38-2 2611, built as Penn Central GP38 7683. So, not as good...
A far cry from its glory days pulling the 20h Century Limited, this Penn Central E8 is showing its New York Central heritage in the dead line at Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Conrail, CR SD40-2 6364 -6436 with Mail 8 on the NEC at Linden, New Jersey. December 19, 1977. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
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Conrail, CR GP38AC #7658 -SD45 #6105 -GP38-2 #8150 -SW9 #9136, eastbound on the Middle Division at Middle Cove, Duncannon, Pennsylvania. March 3, 1979. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
Conrail, CR SD45's #6143 - #6159, with ALPI-6 on the ex-Reading Line at, Allentown, Pennsylvania. October 6, 1979. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
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#6143, built as PRR>PC #6143. 1/1967.
#6159, built as PRR>PC #6159. 1/1967.
(SEE & HEAR)---Conrail, CR SD40-2 6384 - 6368, on the rear on a westbound freight on Conrail's Pittsburgh Mainline at Penn/Manor, Pennsylvania. October 18, 1994. Jack D Kuiphoff video © photo
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E44's lead a freight thru the plant at Union Tower as seen from the Rahway platform. The former PRR main is 6 tracks wide from here north to Elmora Tower in South Elizabeth, a distance of just under 6 miles.
1-4-1976
(SEE & HEAR)----CR, Conrail, PC U25B 2662 -U30B 2852 -U25B 2556 leads MW-1 south on the ex-NYC Riverline at Haworth, New Jersey. The U30B obviously has a problem. June 6, 1977 Jack D Kuiphoff photo & video
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2662, built as NH 2502, 10/1964.
2852, built as NYC 2852, 8/1967.
2556, built as NYC 2556, 2/1965.
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It’s February of 1976, and the inception of Conrail is only a couple of months away. Until that date (April 1), the railroads that will be combined into the new system continue to limp along in bankruptcy. The worst of these was the giant Penn Central, which had declared bankruptcy 6 years earlier in June of 1970. Born from the merger of the once mighty Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads (and later, the New Haven), the giant was plagued by poor management, overregulation, outdated labor agreements, and an incredibly beat-down physical plant. That Conrail would be able to completely turn the ashes of the PC and other northeast railroads around inside of 10 years is nothing short of a miracle.
Here we see a Penn Central coal train arriving at Dow Chemical in Midland. I’m not entirely sure on the timeline, but I believe that at the time these trains were still running up from Toledo to Owosso via the Ann Arbor, after PC’s own lines north from Detroit and Lansing were in poor enough shape that they could no longer handle trains like these. These coal trains beat the hell out of the Ann Arbor, too, which I’m sure was a contributing factor in the Annie also declaring bankruptcy a few years earlier. After the inception of Conrail, these trains would be handled by Grand Trunk Western, as they would purchase the former NYC line to Midland from the PC estate. PC would often put its biggest power on these heavy trains, and this day’s version is led by a GE U30C, two Alco C630s, and a GE U23B.
A scanned slide from my collection, originally taken by B Carlson.
A westbound Erie Lackawanna train bangs across the Penn Central (nee-NYC, nee-CI&S, nee-IH RR) diamond at PC's "ND" tower in Highland, Indiana in February of 1976 with EL 2413-2514, Don Ellison photo. This view is looking S/E next to the EL westbound track. Bridge in the distance is Ridge Road. In a few months, the Penn Central would be Conrail, the Erie would be disappearing and ND would no longer have anything to protect. Nowadays, the NS owns the old Egyptian line and not much runs on it anymore. ND was another favorite tower of mine as my 2nd and 3rd favorite RR's crossed here, and soon the Milwaukee Road, my favorite RR would also be coming through here.
EL C424 #2413 was built by ALCO in June of 1963 and would become CR #2487 until March of 1978 where it was scrapped at the Juniata shops in Altoona, PA.
EL U25B #2514 was built by GE in July of 1965 and became CR #2583 and was scrapped at Erie, PA in May of 1984.
Westbound EL Train
NYC "ND" tower
Crossing of PC's Danville line
February 1976
Don Ellison photo