Roger Durfee - Morning fog partially socks in the Bethlehem Engine Terminal on this October 1977 day as C-420 xLHR 2072, a lownose xLV RS-11 and xLV NW-2 quietly idle by the old coaling tower. xLHR 2072 eventually became the only C-420 to wear a coat of blue paint.

Roger Durfee - The call went out for this ex PRR Alco to lead an eastbound COME in this bucolic setting on the former Erie Lackawanna between Brady Lake and Ravenna, Ohio on a fine June 1979 day. Within a year these ALCo's would be stored and eventually retired, leaving the work to the trailing EMD's.

Roger Durfee - The C-628's last year was 1980, although 1979 was the last good active year, and I believe they went to scrap in 1981 and 1982. While many Conrail four-motor ALCo's found new homes on other railroads, only one six-motor class, the C-636, eluded the scrapper. Here are is xLV 6726 in its old cornell red scheme leading a freight in 1979.

Roger Durfee - Here we see another former Lehigh Valley C-628 renumbered for Conrail, rounding the curve on the former Erie Lackawanna tracks through Akron, Ohio in April 1977, a year after the start up of Conrail.

Roger Durfee - A typical sight in the midwest during the first few years of Conrail, until the fleet of covered wagons were sent off for scrap. A trio of former Penn Central F-7A's depart Collinwood, Ohio for Rockport on a crisp morning in March 1978.

Roger Durfee - Let's take a look behind door number 3! What do you know? It's not a Penn Central unit, it's former Peoria & Eastern SW-7 #8905, wearing its Conrail-ized markings, sitting outside the Scranton Diesel Shop in October 1978.

Roger Durfee - Just to show that Roger also shoots contemporary Conrail action as well as classic transistion era scenes, Conrail MOPI (Morrisville - Pittsburgh) pauses in Cresson, PA on February 1, 1998 with CR 4128 (a former demo unit) and CR 4106. It will continue onto Conway momentarily.

Roger Durfee - Shown at Cleveland, Ohio during February 1978, and surrounded by ex-EL units, a former Reading Lines unit, CR 5839 (ex-RDG 652) GP-7, has received the economy version of Conrail's blue paint scheme. Note the lack of dynamic brakes.

Roger Durfee - Former PC/PRR 2419, an ALCo C-425, is paired with a GP-9 still in full Penn Central livery on a helper set drifting downhill for another push up Wooster Hill just west of Orrville, Ohio in July 1977. Note the Conrail name on 2419 is only on the nose.

Roger Durfee - The Terminal Tower looks down on the Whiskey Island ore dock Huletts in Cleveland, Ohio in August 1992.

Roger Durfee - Fresh out of Juniata Back Shop, Conrail C30-7A 6567 heads up an empty PPL train at Cresson, PA on March 15th, 1999 with NS only a few months away.

Roger Durfee - Four 6-axle EMD's head a westbound Conrail freight across the Hudson River in New York State and will be in Selkirk Yard in a few miles. October of 1977.

Roger Durfee - A stenciled former Penn Central RS-27 #2401 heads up an eastbound train on the old Erie Lackawanna at Akron, Ohio in the winter of 77/78. A grubby day but these babies were rare!

Roger Durfee - A westbound on the former Erie Lackawanna at Akron, Ohio in August 1978 is headed up by ex-EL C-424 2476 and two ex-PC C-425's.

Roger Durfee - A late-running COMY has cut away from its train and prepares to back into South Akron yard in Akron, Ohio. A former PC/PRR SD-35 leads on this very cold winter night in 1978. Off to the right, a weed covered ex-EL main and dark search-light signal forcast the future for that once hot main.