Photos of the many types of Conrail and predecessor cranes, track cranes, derricks, wreckers, and other equipment used in wreck train service that rode on rails.
July 30, 2022
Conrail had a large fleet of dedicated maintenance of way gondolas that carried everything from scrap rail to complete switches.
March 11, 2022
Everything involved with maintaining the track on which the trains run plus the right of way: Jordan spreaders, tampers, welded rail, track crews at work and more.
October 29, 2020
Some of the funkiest looking equipment were scale test cars that Conrail used to make sure their scales were properly weighing freight.
October 29, 2020
Conrail had everything from ancient Russell snow plows built in the 1930's to ultra-modern blowers equipped with jet aircraft engines.
October 29, 2020
Like all railroads, Conrail used damaged boxcars, old baggage cars from passenger trains, and other rolling stock for maintenance of way storage.
November 1, 2020
The Oak Island crane, the Altoona crane, yellow trucks, blue trucks, fuel trucks, and many more different types of Conrail road vehicles.
November 1, 2020
Conrail had so many interesting pieces of maintenance equipment. Equipment here just doesn't fit into any CRCyc categories yet.
November 1, 2020
