Former Reading Company #3271, here in CR stencils, was the first of the five GP40-2's the Reading Company purchased in 1973. Originally, the units were assigned to magnetite ore trains from Bethlehem Steel's Grace Mine in Morgantown, PA. Conrail kept the five former Reading Company locomotives in the same service until the mine closed in 1977. The five former Reading Company GP40-2's were then sent across the system, away from their original home of Reading, PA.
Location: Fort Wayne, IN
Photo Date: 8-11-78
Photographer: Arnie Morscher     Added: June 11, 2000

By 1979, Conrail had added the modern coupler lever extensions, which were not on the Reading Company GP40-2's originally. Conrail # 3275 (former Reading Company #3671) is still in CR stencils.
Location: Croxton, NJ
Photo Date: 4-27-79
Photographer: Bob Dobrowolski     Added: September 19, 1998

Close up of the engineer's cab of Reading Company #3672. She was stopped momentarily outside the tower at the northern end of Reading Yard, which was called Water Station since the Reading Company days. I loved these engines. I was trying out some black and white photography with a Pentax K1000 and just decided to snap this shot of the cab, which had been untouched by Conrail.
Location: Reading, PA (Water Station, Reading Yard)
Photo Date: Summer 1977
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: September 4, 1999

Conrail #3276 is former Reading Company #3672 with CR stencils and numbers applied.
Location: Meadows, NJ
Photo Date: 11-3-78
Photographer: Bob Dobrowolski     Added: September 19, 1998

This angle clearly shows what a Phase I class light looks like along with the headlight assembly. Of course the cab signal box on the engineer side of the nose is a Conrail addition to the unit, but other than that the locomotive changed little since the Reading Company owned it.
Location: Nashville, TN
Photo Date: 9-99
Photographer: Wes Reminder     Added: June 18, 2000

If you were the engineer standing behind your chair, this would be your view of the cab and control stand of Conrail #3276 (former Reading Company #3672). Notice the locomotive number painted on the stand, a common practice in locomotives back then. To the left are your brake controls, one for the locomotive the other for the entire train. On the right is the throttle and direction lever. Unlike automobiles, locomotives run in 'notches.' So you put the engine in forward, then open the throttle to notch "one." Your speed will then depend on how heavy your train is and how much horsepower you have.
Location: Nashville, TN
Photo Date: 9-99
Photographer: Wes Reminder     Added: June 18, 2000

Repainted former Reading Company #3673. Note the Conrail-added extensions on the coupler lift bar so that the trainman could open the coupler while standing in the step well.
Location: Cleveland, OH
Photo Date: 6-83
Photographer: George Elwood     Added: May 2, 1999

Conrail #3278 is former Reading Company #3674 with its CR stencils and numbers applied.
Location: Croxton, NJ
Photo Date: 11-14-78
Photographer: Bob Dobrowolski     Added: September 19, 1998

Former Reading Company #3674 in CR stencils.
Location: Enola, PA
Photo Date: 4-13-79
Photographer: Bob Dobrowolski     Added: September 19, 1998

Taken on a hazy summer afternoon at the Water Station end of the Reading Yard. Water Station was the yard tower for the north end of the yard. Reading Compamy #3675 was the spare Grace Mine locomotive and was being moved around the yard that day. It remained in Reading colors for some time into the merger. Eventually, it became Conrail #3279. This is one my favorite photos. I shot it using one of my dad's old cameras from the 1960's. A few months earlier, I had just turned 14 years old. Looking back, it seems like it was several life-times ago.
Location: Reading, PA (Water Station, Reading Yard)
Photo Date: 7-77
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: May 2, 1999

One of my experiments with the new ASA 400 black and white film and home photo developing. This time the experiment worked, but sadly it failed most of the time.
Location: Reading, PA (Water Station, Reading Yard)
Photo Date: 7-77
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: September 4, 1999

A new, unpainted battery-box is just one Conrail addition to former Reading Company #3675 in CR stencils. Conrail #3279 leads TV-98 over the former Erie Lackawanna in Akron, OH.
Location: Akron, OH
Photo Date: 11-78
Photographer: Roger Durfee     Added: November 17, 2004

CR 3282 was the third GP40-2 EMD built for Conrail, completing the locomotive in April 1977. It was still working freights in 1994. Here it is part of ALNS (Allentown, PA - NS-Hagerstown, MD)
Location: Hagerstown, MD (Shomo Yard)
Photo Date: 8-94
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: January 28, 2022

Conrail #3285 in the Conrail Quality scheme is on a westbound freight, with Conrail GP40-2 #3402 on the lead. Conrail #3285 is a Phase II GP40-2 that Conrail purchased in 1977. The locomotive survived the duration of Conrail.
Location: Hummelstown, PA
Photo Date: 4-10-99
Photographer: Kevin DeGroff     Added: February 20, 2002

It's 1997 and Conrail #3286 is still in its as-delivered Conrail paint scheme, although rust is starting to take over parts of the locomotive. This seemed a common problem in the 1990's with Conrail's GP40-2's, as many photos show. It's 9:30am, and Conrail #3286 is the trailing unit of a westbound intermodal, TV-211 (Kearny, NJ - Atlanta, GA) via Conrail and then the Norfolk Southern.
Location: Wyomissing, PA
Photo Date: 2-7-97
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: May 8, 1998

Conrail #3286 is coming towards us on westbound intermodal TV-211 (Kearny, NJ - Atlanta, GA). Notice a replaced latch on the engineer's door and some replaced latches on the long-hood door.
Location: Wyomissing, PA
Photo Date: 2-7-97
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: October 15, 1998

Conrail GP40-2 #3289 leads Conrail GP40-2 #3368 and Conrail GP38-2 #8012 (former Penn Central #8012 in CR stencils).
Location: Meadowslands, NJ
Photo Date: 3-80
Photographer: Joe Testagrose     Added: March 12, 2020

Conrail #3932 leads a freight. Conrail #3932 is interesting because it is riding on GP38-2 Blomberg Type M trucks. Conrail #3292 and Conrail #3291 were wrecked in 1998 at Salem, Ohio. Conrail #3291 was sold to Motive Power Industries and rebuilt in December 1998 as #104, a MP2000D, for Coastal Marine Corporation railroad. Conrail #3292 was rebuilt and sold to New Orleans Public Belt as #2002.
Location: Bound Brook, NJ (Bound Brook Yard)
Photo Date: 10-29-88
Photographer: Robert Russell     Added: October 30, 1999

CR 3293 leads several blue units under the wires.
Location: South Elizabeth, NJ
Photo Date: 8-7-80
Photographer: Joe Testagrose     Added: October 9, 2020

Location: Kearny, NJ
Photo Date: 9-19-77
Photographer: Joe Testagrose     Added: October 9, 2020

The nose on a Phase II unit is 88" long from front to back, whereas the nose on a Phase I unit is merely 81".
Location: Hershey, PA
Photo Date: 2-20-99
Photographer: Kevin DeGroff     Added: February 20, 2002

Notice the yellow band around the one vent fan.
Location: Ashtabula, OH (Ashtabula Harbor Yard)
Photo Date: 8-29-98
Photographer: Dave Trenn     Added: December 24, 2005

Not much to say about this repainted loco other than the oil leaks are only just making their marks on the fresh paint.
Location: Reading, PA (CP Belt)
Photo Date: 11-96
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: May 8, 1998

Conrail #3317 suffered a wreck in the mid-1980's and was rebuilt with a cab from a retired Erie Lackawanna SD45. The horn is located where it is because it was the only way the shop crews could get the piping through the cab. Notice how all three bells on the horn face forward, making for a rather loud blasting sound if you're standing in front of the locomotive.
Location: Unknown
Photo Date: Unknown
Photographer: Robert Russell     Added: October 30, 1999

This is a view of the cab from the engineer's rear.
Location: Unknown
Photo Date: ?-92
Photographer: Robert Russell     Added: October 30, 1999

GP40-2 CR 3325 and C40-8W CR 6253 are the power for work train #204.
Location: La Crosse, WI
Photo Date: Unknown
Photographer: Jim Matuska     Added: November 2, 2022

It is late afternoon when everything casts long shadows and the sun glows orange. CR 3327 in the Quality scheme leads the daily westbound Norfolk Southern runthrough on the Harrisburg Line.
Location: Wernersville, PA (Furnace Rd.)
Photo Date: 3-26-98
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: November 8, 2020

Conrail #3336 was one of the Phase II units that Conrail ordered in June 1978.
Location: Allentown, PA
Photo Date: 5-16-81
Photographer: Joe Testagrose     Added: December 17, 1999

Another GP40-2 still in its as-delivered paint but showing its age, not just in grime but also in missing parts, such as no headlight hoods. Conrail #3346 and Conrail #3338 are pulling BAL (ballast work train) westbound out of Reading up the Harrisburg Line.
Location: Wyomissing, PA
Photo Date: 10-12-96
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: October 15, 1998

CR 3349 leads with a trailing former Reading Company GP35 with its long hood doors open.
Location: South Elizabeth, NJ
Photo Date: 8-7-80
Photographer: Joe Testagrose     Added: October 9, 2020

Location: Philadelphia, PA (Frankford Junction)
Photo Date: 10-83
Photographer: John Bondura     Added: June 4, 2002

Conrail #3357 was on the point of NSSE (Hagerstown/NS, MD - Selkirk, NY) on a crisp February afternoon. NSSE had been having troubles that day due to one of its trailing units dying on route, which put an even greater strain on remaining locomotives.
Location: Blandon, PA (CP Blandon)
Photo Date: 2-97
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: May 8, 1998

The Conrail logo stripes on this Phase II unit do not wrap around the blower or axle-greaser box.
Location: Gang Mills, NY
Photo Date: 4-28-83
Photographer: Kevin DeGroff     Added: February 20, 2002

CR 3359 has been repainted in the Quality scheme and has had some additional modifactions, such as the cab window wind screen. On this day it is part of NSSE (NS/Haggerstown, MD - Selkirk, NY).
Location: Reading, PA (CP Belt)
Photo Date: 1-96
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: April 7, 2022

It is high noon with the sun glaring as CR 3363 leads eastbound PIBE-5 (Pittsburgh, PA - Bethlehem, PA) through Wyomissing Junction on the Harrisburg Line.
Location: Wyomissing, PA
Photo Date: 3-26-96
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: November 8, 2020

Not sure why this GP40-2 was assigned local duty, but here it is as the rear unit of WPRE on the way back into Reading, having completed its work. A GP10 was on the front end coming back.
Location: Wyomissing, PA
Photo Date: 9-95
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: March 17, 2022

CR 3365 leads TV-212. CR 6770 SD50 was its other unit.
Location: Wyomissing, PA
Photo Date: 2-25-96
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: April 7, 2022

Location: Cleveland, OH (Collinwood Yard)
Photo Date: 3-16-91
Photographer: Dave Trenn     Added: March 4, 2005

The class lights are still the same as those on the Phase I nose.
Location: Nashville, TN
Photo Date: 9-2-99
Photographer: Wes Reminder     Added: June 18, 2000

It a light move today, with two Geeps and a former Penn Central caboose.
Location: North Philadelphia, PA
Photo Date: 5-18-83
Photographer: Joe Testagrose     Added: October 9, 2020

CR 3383, a Phase II unit, entered service in May 1979 and went to Norfolk Southern in May 1999 as NS 3058.
Location: Harrisburg, PA (Harrisburg Yard)
Photo Date: 8-94
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: January 18, 2022

CR 3387 was part of ALNS (Allentown, PA - NS/Hagerstown, MD) that morning.
Location: Hagerstown, MD (Shomo Yard)
Photo Date: 8-94
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: January 28, 2022

CR 3387 was part of ALNS (Allentown, PA - NS/Hagerstown, MD) that morning.
Location: Hagerstown, MD (Shomo Yard)
Photo Date: 8-94
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: January 28, 2022

A shot of the front trucks along with fuel fill on the conductor side.
Location: Unknown
Photo Date: Unknown
Photographer: Robert Russell     Added: October 30, 1999

Shot of rear trucks on conductor's side.
Location: Unknown
Photo Date: Unknown
Photographer: Robert Russell     Added: October 30, 1999

A good shot showing how the cab signal box is hooked up to the short hood.
Location: Nashville, TN
Photo Date: 9-11-99
Photographer: Wes Reminder     Added: June 18, 2000

A detail shot of an FRA-approved class light on a Phase 3 unit.
Location: Nashville, TN
Photo Date: 9-11-99
Photographer: Wes Reminder     Added: June 18, 2000

It appears that EMD introduced a variation with Conrail #3386-#3393, which were the first order of Phase III GP40-2's to arrive on Conrail with this notched-hood version of the rear class light mount.
Location: Nashville, TN
Photo Date: 9-11-99
Photographer: Wes Reminder     Added: June 18, 2000

Overview of the control stand. The heater is in the front.
Location: Nashville, TN
Photo Date: 9-11-99
Photographer: Wes Reminder     Added: June 18, 2000

The view of the control stand from the engineer's chair.
Location: Nashville, TN
Photo Date: 9-11-99
Photographer: Wes Reminder     Added: 9-11-99

The lavatory in the nose of the unit.
Location: Nashville, TN
Photo Date: 9-11-99
Photographer: Wes Reminder     Added: June 18, 2000

Conrail #3394-#3403 were the second and final order of Phase III GP40-2's on Conrail. On these units, the FRA-approved rear marker lights are mounted much like on the nose, except that they have a hood-like bracket around the light. This was a Conrail spotting feature.
Location: Wyomissing, PA
Photo Date: 6-97
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: January 16, 1999

One of the final GP40-2's to be delivered to Conrail. Notice the classic Phase III FRA-approved "bug-eye" class lights on the nose.
Location: Gang Mills, NY
Photo Date: 1-12-85
Photographer: Kevin DeGroff     Added: November 3, 2018

Close up view of the pilot and ditch lights on a Phase III unit.
Location: Unknown
Photo Date: 9-97<
Photographer: Robert Russell     Added: October 30, 1999

Location: Unknown
Photo Date: 9-97
Photographer: Robert Russell     Added: October 30, 1999

An enlarged shot of the class light mounts on Conrail #3399. Compare this unit's mounts with those of Conrail #3393.
Location: Unknown
Photo Date: 9-97
Photographer: Robert Russell     Added: October 30, 1999