CONRAIL Photo Gallery Vol. II by Tom Hildreth
Photos of CONRAIL (Consolidated Rail Corporation-CR) trains and equipment © Tom Hildreth Photography. Click on photos below for larger version. These images may also be viewed as a slide show HERE. These web pages are not affiliated with the subject railroad.
Railfans abound at Palmer, MA., as C32-8 6611 and three other GE units as roll eastward with a train on the Boston Line on 1 March 1991.
C32-8 6618 and two other GE units bring a TV east at MP 132.3 near Becket, MA on the Boston Line at 0745 hrs on 7 July 1989
C36-7 6620 leads an eastbound through the 1910 bore of State Line Tunnel, near Canaan Center, NY during the morning of 2 August 1991.
C36-7 6629 is the lead unit of this westbound TV as it approaches State Line tunnel near Canaan Center, NY on 2 August 1991.
Running eastbound at Becket, MA at 1050 hrs this TV was photogrpahed on the Boston Line on 22 May 1992.
Ex-LV C628 6726 on head end of a westound Boston Line freight at Mittineage, West Springfield, MA., February 1977.
GP9 7277's headlight reveals a highly overgrown Canal Line as NX-1 returns to Westfield, MA from its run to Easthampton, MA on 24 September 1977.
Local NX-1 with ex-PC(NH) GP9 7277 and caboose run light southbound over the Manhan River in Easthampton, MA on the Canal line in this 1977 view.
Ex-PC(NYC) GP7 7306 has puller duty on this morning in December, 1976, busy with a long freight in the B&M yard that has arrived from New Haven.
GP9 7554 inbound at Forest Hills, MA with an inbound commuter job on the pre-modernized Shore Line on 12 May 1978.
SW1200 9370 photographed with a short local (likely NX-1) and caboose 19313 at the Westfield, MA Yard in early 1977.
Local approaches the Bridge Street grade crossing in the Mittineague section of West Springfield, MA on the morning of 7 March 1978.
With B23-7 1990 on the point a westbound smokes it up at the Twin Ledges in Middlefield, MA on the morning of 7 May 1983.
Mid-day winter shot of an eastbound in the ledges at Washington, MA on the Boston Line in early 1978.
C32-8 6610 is on the point of this eastbound running downgrade at Middlefield, MA on the Boston Line at 1145 hrs on 5 Oct 1990.
C32-8 6616 leads a ballast train westbound through the ledges at Middlefield, MA on the Boston Line at 1340 hrs on 13 July 1990.
An eastbound TV led by C36-7 6644 crosses the West Branch of the Westfield River on the Boston line at 1050 hrs on 22 May 1992.
SW1500 9555 southbound on the Canal Line with NX-1 returning to the Westfield yard on 21 April 1978.
RS3m 9972 switching light industry at Bradley International Airport on 26 November 1976. Note the WWII-era Army Air Force buildings.
Early morning eastbound about to pass the block signals (since removed) at Bancroft, MA on the Boston line sometime in 1977-78.
RDC #42 outbound has just entered the Needham Branch in this photot taken at Forest Hills, MA on 17 June 1977.
On a hot afternoon in August,1 1977 Ex-EL U36C 6595 brakes hard with an eastbound on the curve at Bancroft, MA.
The local will be the first to leave the West Springfield yard this April, 1977 morning as a Selkirk-bound job waits on the left .
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