EMD-GM built a pair of electric locomotives in the 1970's, a GM6 on the frame of a SD40-2 and a unique GM10. Both worked the Penn Central/Conrail electric lines with GM staff onboard.
Horn place makes it a dead giveaway that this is ex Erie Lackawanna.
Early Conrail was not a pretty sight. This nee PRR unit gives mute testimony.
Evidently when Conrail stored a unit they wanted to use again they went out of their way to insure nobody messed with it. Steel bands hold all the doors shut on this chunky powerhouse. I wonder ... (more)
Nee PRR, ex-PC unit looks somewhat nautical sitting inconguously sitting in a patch of goldenrods.
Nee-Pennsy. What were the little sightglasses behind the cab for.
14G passes through CP Paxton with an ex Soo Line SD60 in the consist.
Warning to those merging. In your efforts to create uniformity don't make everything uniformly crappy. I any case this grizzled old unit has a certain dignity and reflects the agonies of its var... (more)
Eastbound on Rockville bridge to go up the NS Buffalo Line to go up the CP Sunbury Sub at Sunbury , Pa.
The National Limited. The E8A was ex-PRR.
Conrail painted SD50 5406 leads 37Q passing thru Paxton interlocking. It is here that the train leaves the Harrisburg Line for the Lurgan branch and points south. Amtraks Harrisburg Station is in... (more)
NS 2755 sits with manifest train 38Q on the ex-Reading, NS Lurgan Branch bridge over the Susquehanna River, while waiting to enter Harrisburg Yard.
