Conrail II
Author: John C Durant
Photo Gallery
PIEN-6x disturbs the quiet as it rushes along the Juniata River at Bailey, PA
SEEN-1's power heading down to couple up to ENSE-1. ENSE-1's power developed problems and it was decided to switch power. Note: the star on 6604 indicating a test unit.
OIPI-9 heads up the three track former PRR Middle Division across the Juniata River from Amity Hall
The hogger has 'em screeming as OIPI hammers down the tangent toward Cove. Check out the hopper topper...
It's fill in the spaces as TV-27 rolls toward Rockville.
Sometimes the train IS faster..... From the DARK side
The hard part of the journey is over and now its downhill and track speed as TV-1 does its best to rattle the windows in Lily, PA
Mail-9 powered by three new B36-7's hammers through Mattawana at track speed.
ALSE-4 runs the siding between CP-7 and CP13 to meet two south bounds. Spring is just arriving in North Jersey.
Three SD40's lead a UOR coal train across Center Street, Blandon, PA
BOSE-2 exits the north bore of State Line Tunnel. When Conrail single tracked the B&A, it removed the north track leaving the south track intact.
Three B40-8's power TV-14 as it slows for the Senaca River causeway and bridge.
Local freight WPKI-90 hustles south to the siding at West Haverstraw to meet two northbounds before running around its train and heading north. The SW1500 will be left at West Haverstraw.
Three six axle GE's are in charge of SEAL-0 as it rolls through Bear Mountain State Park.
Not quite street running. Another train of empty's heads for West Brownsvill yard.
LMPI-3 is on the final leg of its journey that will terminate at Conway Yard a few miles ahead.
A GP15-1 and a 38-2 team to pull pipe from the rolling mill at Riverton Jct. The track in the foreground is CSX exP&LE.
A SD60 and C40-8W power a Buffalo bound Somerset Coal train on the Chicago Line.
SEMC-3 rolls north toward Massena, NY under threatning skies on the Montreal Secondary.
A B40-8 and B23-7 team to roll an ADM Grain MTY west passed the Fonda, NY Fairgrounds.
TV-80 was a Friday only train on the "RIVER". Most times it wasn't very long. Here it is seen passing the north switch of Orange-Rockland Electric's siding.
BUOI-1 hustles east toward the double track at Sloatsburg passing through Arden on the way.
DADN-4 exits the north portal of Fort Montgomery Tunnel looking like its exiting a hole in the wall.
TVLA, Conrails's hottest of the HOT rolls north at Tomkins Cove. The Cove was made famous as the resting place for Mothballed WWII Liberty Ships in the 1950's.
Almost like clockwork.... TVLA-7 was a train you could almost set your watch by...
The engineer on MCSE-2 gives a thumbs up as the train passes a flanger sign near Fort Plain, NY
Conrail 6756 and brand new 6135 rest at the south end of W.Brownsville yard after forwarding another train of empty hoppers.
OIPI-6 meets a ballast train on Rockville Bridge.
3354 and two sister units power TVLA across the Doodletown Blight on the Fred D. Day Memorial Bridge. Fred was Conrails' Chief Engineer Structures and my boss. He designed the bridge.
SEBU-6 with 6707 leading is about to slam the diamond at CP-VO as a D&H track geometry special holds in the clear.
SENS-2 is just south of Coxsackie after meeting TVLA-2 at Ravena siding.
Two SP six axles power SEIN-7 west on the Selkirk Branch on a cold December day. SEIN is about to past under the former New York, West Shore and Buffalo as the tracks switch sides.
NFSE-3 approaches Fonda, NY on track one....
TV-11x hustles by the Mifflin Depot on a muggy August afternoon.
CR 6009 smokes it up as it leads the APL Stack Train down the main at CP-7 Bogota, NJ
It's still dark and gloomy as TV-79 makes its way north at Tomkins Cove, NY. The coal is for Orange Rockland Gas & Electric, on of the River Lines major customers seen in the back ground
Southbound TV-200 passes the CR A-2439 at Stoney Point, NY. Note: the leaking radiator on the 5047 trailing.
A UOR coal train drops down through Manville to Port Reading Jct with a GE leading three EMD's.
DA-BU-4 is doing track speed as it heads up the Southern Tier at Masthope, PA
It was just starting to snow again as I arrived at the Massena Depot to call the T-Center in Pittsburgh to bill my test car out of Alcoa Alum.
TV-79 is doing track speed as it approaches NY Rt-38 and the Brutis, NY HBD/DED
WPAL-? moves west to clear the CP-Burn Interlocking to make a reverse move.
PWSE-5 runs west on track one at Westfield, Mass with two 80mac's.
marks the spot where a depot and small yard were located at Iona Island providing plenty of depth to watch SEAL.
SENS-9 passes Central Hudson Gas & Electric's Coupled In Motion scale at Roseton, NY, a location few fans get to see let alone photograph. The NS power will be used on my test train later in the morning.
Three four axle GE's are in charge of TV-9 westbound and CP-308, Jordan, NY on a snowy March 4, 1999. It would be the second to last time I was up here before the SPLIT!