Conrail local WHRE-10 has left the well-polished rails of the Lebanon Valley line at Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, and has entered the less-used Reading & Columbia Branch. The train will serve cus... (more)

Half-Patched

Both locomotives in this GP9/GP30 combination appear have been pulled out of the shop before the Conrail rebranding process could be completed. Both units’ long hoods ... (more)

A clean, but eclectic, mix of Conrail power leaves the yard in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The mix includes a C36-7, an SD50, a U36B, an SD38, and an MT6 slug. The latter two are a yard set that like... (more)

Big Boats on the Star

One of the staples of Allentown-area train operations before Conrail was Reading train HB8. Operating from Harrisburg (Rutherford) to Bethlehem (actual... (more)

Drab Power on a Dreary Day

The day after Conrail’s first anniversary finds a GP30/GP9/GP39 power set in a mix of patched and unpatched Penn Central colors (colors?) approaching Al... (more)

A pair of Conrail SD50’s leads a Philadelphia - Allentown freight over Buttonwood Street in West Reading, Pennsylvania. The near track leads to the south leg of the Valley Junction wye that leads ... (more)

Bound for Harrisburg, a westbound empty hopper train from Philadelphia rolls through West Reading, Pennsylvania on the Reading Belt Line. Crossing over Penn Avenue, the train is running left hande... (more)

Philadelphia-bound freight crosses the Schuylkill River on the Reading Belt Line at Titus, Pennsylvania. The smoke stacks and cooling tower of Metropolitan Edison’s coal-fired Titus Generating Sta... (more)

Powered by six EMD’s, a westbound Conrail manifest rolls through the Pennsylvania farmland approaching Titus. Getting a train here was challenging, as the Reading Belt Line was usually eschewed by... (more)

As an eastbound train drifts downgrade toward Altoona, an ex-Penn Central SD40 and an ex-Erie Lackawanna SD45 push a westbound up the last portion of the grade before entering the tunnel at Tunnel... (more)

Having arrived at the one-time Lehigh Valley division point of Coxton, Pennsylvania, Conrail train ALCG prepares to perform some yard work. ALCG was the life blood of a few Conrail locals and sho... (more)

Having completed its descent into the Wyoming Valley, Conrail train ALCG (Allentown – Corning) makes its final approach to Coxton yard. The train is on the former Lehigh Valley main line, and is c... (more)

Conrail train ALCG (Allentown – Corning) has crested the grade at Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, and begins its descent into the Wyoming Valley.

Westbound Conrail train ALCG (Allentown – Corning) passes the parking lot of the Acme supermarket in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. The Lehigh Valley’s Mauch Chunk station was located in this area unt... (more)

Westbound Conrail train ALCG (Allentown – Corning) rolls through the sprawling acreage that was once the Lehigh Valley’s Packerton yard. The yard, located between Lehighton and Jim Thorpe, Pennsyl... (more)