I tend to think of these as gone too soon but Conrail & NS got 25 years or so out of them so here’s a portrait that’s deserved.
Southbound NS mainline train meets KCS coming off the “Racetrack”
NS 119 climbs Five Row and prepares to heads over Long Ferry Road with a 15 MPH speed restriction due to a telephone pole draping live wires over the crossing gate and #2 main track.
NS 261 races west trying to get out of fostoria before the csx's rush, per F-tower.
Rarity today for NS yard transfer run H5A which normally has 4 axle power out of South Philly Yard to Abrams Yard - Ex Conrail dash 8 combines with SD70M-2 this time eastbound on the ex PRR high l... (more)
NS freight train led by a pair of GE's rolling through Marshall and along the French Broad River in September 2007.
Eastbound roadrailer catches a green signal passing the old Wabash Railroad depot.
A former Conrail unit takes Q-NYCLAC west through Verona, bound for the west coast.
Ex Conrail Q unit leads NS general freight 39G west on track 1 alongside Stowe Yard near Pottstown at about milepost 41 of the Harrisburg Line; a parked coal hopper train stretches from here to CG... (more)
A very colorful 21G rolls west with a UP and SP unit in the lash-up.
Side profile of former Conrail Q unit rushing east on the Reading Line approaching CP Belt under sunny skies.
Westbound NS run thru-on BNSF crossing Pecos River.Rear of train can be seen at lower right.
Former Conrail unit begins to pull west on Reading line