CR 5005 heads a westbound freight coming off the Blandon Lowgrade and the Lehigh Line, through CP Belt, and onto the Belt Line around the city of Reading.
Location: Reading, PA (CP Belt)
Photo Date: 9-94
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: January 27, 2022

Dead-on-shot of the front of the unit on a snowy morning. Ditch lights have been added. Photo was taken during 1996 or 1997.
Location: Sayre, PA
Photo Date: Unknown
Photographer: Tom Hannon     Added: May 30, 2000

Closeup view of the unit's front conductor trucks. Notice the 20-83 gear ratio markings. Photo was taken during 1996 or 1997.
Location: Sayre, PA
Photo Date: Unknown
Photographer: Tom Hannon     Added: May 30, 2000

CR 5009 leads westbound ALHB (Allentown, PA - Harrisburg, PA) through Spring Township just east of Sinking Spring on the edge of West Lawn. Unseen in this photo, the third engine was Norfolk Southern.
Location: West Lawn, PA
Photo Date: 3-24-96
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: November 7, 2020

CR 5010 in the Quality scheme leads a freight doing some pick-ups and set-offs in the yard on a hazy summer day in 1994.
Location: Harrisburg, PA (Harrisburg Yard)
Photo Date: 8-94
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: January 18, 2022

The second unit on TV-14X (Chicago-Englewood, IL - Boston, MA Extra Section) was B36-7 CR 5012. (See CR 5045 below.)
Location: Hinsdale, MA
Photo Date: 2-10-84
Photographer: Carl Weber     Added: November 24, 2006

CR 5012 leads eastbound TV-12 (Chicago-Ashland Ave., IL - Elizabethport-Erail, NJ) at milepost 127.
Location: Ashtabula, OH
Photo Date: 8-7-94
Photographer: Dave Trenn     Added: August 14, 2019

CR 5021 is the trailing unit on ALHB (Allentown, PA - Harrisburg, PA).
Location: Blandon, PA (CP Blandon)
Photo Date: 2-97
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: May 8, 1998

It was a busy day on the rails when I captured CR 5023 on the PRR's old Middle Division in Duncannon.
Location: Duncannon, PA
Photo Date: 9-1-96
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: October 15, 1998

Location: Windsor, ON
Photo Date: 4-98
Photographer: Brian Switzer     Added: October 9, 2020

CR 5028's paint scheme has been updated into the 'safety stripe' scheme. It's working with CR 5035, pictured below.
Location: Dolton, IL
Photo Date: 6-8-91
Photographer: Brian Ambrose     Added: February 3, 2022

Location: Conway, PA
Photo Date: 12-3-84
Photographer: Dave Hamilton     Added: May 11, 2025

CR 5031, repainted in the Quality scheme, is the fifth unit on westbound Mail-3 (Kearny, NJ - East St. Louis, MO), which had six units that morning. Some of the units were being transferred, and not running. Notice how CR 5031 did not have the "Quality" logo on the nose and on the rear.
Location: West Lawn, PA
Photo Date: 3-24-96
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: November 7, 2020

Nearly two years after the photo of CR 5031 above and the 5031 has never had the "Quality" logo applied to its nose and rear.
Location: Cranford, NJ
Photo Date: 12-24-97
Photographer: Robert Russell     Added: March 9, 1999

Closeup view of ditch lights and pilot.
Location: Cranford, NJ
Photo Date: 12-24-97
Photographer: Robert Russell     Added: March 9, 1999

Engineer's side of cab and trucks.
Location: Cranford, NJ
Photo Date: 12-24-97
Photographer: Robert Russell     Added: March 9, 1999

Fuel tank and Quality logo.
Location: Cranford, NJ
Photo Date: 12-24-97
Photographer: Robert Russell     Added: March 9, 1999

Rear of unit on engineer side showing grills.
Location: Cranford, NJ
Photo Date: 12-24-97
Photographer: Robert Russell     Added: March 9, 1999

Rear end and pilot of unit.
Location: Cranford, NJ
Photo Date: 12-24-97
Photographer: Robert Russell     Added: March 9, 1999

Detail shot of bell and compressor. This is on the engineer side directly in front of fuel tank.
Location: Cranford, NJ
Photo Date: 12-24-97
Photographer: Robert Russell     Added: March 9, 1999

Detail shot of air compressor on conductor side directly in front of fuel tank.
Location: Cranford, NJ
Photo Date: 12-24-97
Photographer: Robert Russell     Added: March 9, 1999

Quality scheme. Lower rear headlight lens is missing.
Location: Wyomissing, PA
Photo Date: 5-97
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: May 8, 1998

A nice overhead view of CR 5034.
Location: Fairpoint, NY
Photo Date: 5-99
Photographer: Brian Switzer     Added: October 9, 2020

Still in its as-delivered paint scheme, the Conrail heralds and road numbers on CR 5035 have taken a beating.
Location: Dolton, IL
Photo Date: 6-8-91
Photographer: Brian Ambrose     Added: February 3, 2022

An overhead shot in the Quality scheme.
Location: Unknown
Photo Date: Unknown
Photographer: Steve Geisler     Added: March 17, 2000

I tried to take as many elevated shots of locomotives as possible so we could see roof and walkway details as on 5037, which was middle unit on HBBE (Harrisburg, PA - Bethlehem, PA).
Location: Reading, PA (CP Belt)
Photo Date: 2-13-97
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: August 10, 2001

CR 5044 leads a westbound freight.
Location: Wyomissing, PA
Photo Date: 1-95
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: February 5, 2022

A raggedy looking B26-7 complete with body dents, open door, and oil leaks does duty in the middle of CSX freight S-471.
Location: Lucama, NC
Photo Date: 11-3-99
Photographer: Craig Zeni     Added: May 30, 2000

According to Carl Weber: our first encounter with the fairly new, at the time, GE B36-7's occurred on 2/10/1984 in Hinsdale, MA Eastbound TV-14X (Chicago-Englewood, IL - Boston, MA), led by the 5045, was stabbed at the Hinsdale crossovers for an opposing train, as one track on the east slope of Washington Hill was out of service. As the railroad was still ABS signal rules and a TBO was controlling the hand-throw switches and handing up orders to trains running against the flow. It didn't matter that the train stopped "in advance" of the block signal seen in the photo.
Location: Hinsdale, MA
Photo Date: 2-10-84
Photographer: Carl Weber     Added: November 24, 2006

The opposing train that TV-14X (See CR 5045 above) was waiting for, BOEL (Boston, MA - Elkhart, IN), also had another B36-7, the 5047, in the lead. Although CR 5047 was new, the Northeast winter has made a mess the locomotive, just as the winter does to automobiles.
Location: Hinsdale, MA
Photo Date: 2-10-84
Photographer: Carl Weber     Added: November 24, 2006

CR 5047 is part of a large freight powered by several locomotives doing some pick-ups and set-offs in the yard on a hazy summer day in 1994.
Location: Harrisburg, PA (Harrisburg Yard)
Photo Date: 8-94
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: January 18, 2022

By the time Robert Palmer had caught up with the 5047, 14 years of hard service in MA and the Northeast had caught up to it. The old white numberboards have been replaced with newer white boards.
Location: Norristown, PA (Abrams Yard)
Photo Date: ?-98
Photographer: Robert Palmer     Added: June 15, 1998

CR 5048 is the trailing unit behind four other locomotives on westbound MAIL-3 (Kearny, NJ - East St. Louis, MO). That afternoon, MAIL-3 was running on the opposing track.
Location: Wyomissing, PA
Photo Date: 3-25-96
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: May 23, 2022

Standard unit with original numberboards.
Location: Morrisville, PA
Photo Date: Unknown
Photographer: Robert Palmer     Added: June 15, 1998

One of the last B36-7's to be delivered.
Location: Baltimore, MD (Bayview Yard)
Photo Date: ?-85
Photographer: Ralph Molesworth     Added: April 29, 2015

Another angle of 5056.
Location: Baltimore, MD (Bayview Yard)
Photo Date: ?-86
Photographer: Ralph Molesworth     Added: April 29, 2015

CR 5056 has been repainted in the Quality scheme and leads eastbound CSAL.
Location: Reading, PA (CP Belt)
Photo Date: 3-95
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: March 2, 2022