EMD’s Electrics

By the mid-1970’s, Conrail’s fleet of electric freight locomotives, including GG1’s, E33’s, E40’s and E44’s was aging, and EMD, sensing an opportunity to make a lar... (more)

Talk about the Baltimore & Ohio in West Virginia will often center around coal traffic, but there was also a good deal of products carried for the pulp and paper industry. Here two SD60 demonstrat... (more)

We’re Here to Fix Your Mistakes

After EMD’s SD50’s developed a reputation for being trouble-prone, the builder quickly introduced the improved SD60. Four demonstrator units were se... (more)

Soon after we gave up the day-long westbound chase of EMD SD60 demonstrator EMD-4 at Newburg, West Virg... (more)

Power of Tomorrow, Today

That’s the slogan that EMD applied to their four SD60 demonstrators before sending them out for evaluation. Here EMD-4 rolls westward through Newburg, West... (more)

A northbound Delaware & Hudson train with two cabooses gets a push from a U33C climbing up Belden Hill at Sanitaria Springs, New York.

On a typical Southern Tier day, two Delaware & Hudson U33C’s push a northbound train up Belden Hill at Sanitaria Springs, New York.

One of the Delaware & Hudson’s U33C’s leads four Alcos northbound at Sanitaria Springs, New on a rainy July day.

Three Railroads, Three Builders

Early Guilford action finds a southbound Delaware & Hudson train approaching Nowlan Road in Binghamton, New York with power contributed by each of t... (more)

Three examples of the Delaware & Hudson’s newest power assist a northbound train up Belden Hill at Nowlan Road in Binghamton, New York. The 7600-class GP39-2’s were delivered in late March, 1976, ... (more)

A pair of Maine Central U23B’s, still in D&H lightning stripe paint, have pushed a northbound Delaware & Hudson train up Penobscot Mountain from Lehighton, Pennsylvania. They have run around the t... (more)

Which of These Does Not Go With the Others?

At first glance, it appears that Conrail EMD’s are leading on all lashups waiting to go west from Allentown Yard. On closer inspection, ... (more)

Late in the day, a Delaware & Hudson set of power backs to its train in the west end of Allentown yard. There are two lightning stripe U23B’s in the consist, but the Lehigh Valley heritage is in a... (more)

A Delaware & Hudson Potomac Yard train prepares to head west from Allentown yard on the East Penn line. Within a little over a year, many elements of this scene will disappear as part of Conrail’s... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific coal drag labors through Geneva, Illinois. The locomotives are adding to the poor air quality that is obscuring the setting sun.