Roger Durfee - A classic northeastern Lehigh Valley cabib car (LV A95073) brings up the rear of a Conrail westbound through Akron, OH in July 1976.

Roger Durfee - A former EL unit is hooked up to the Search Test Center in Collinwood yard in Cleveland, Ohio for some troubleshooting in May 1978. The unit is former EL 2558, a GP-35.

Roger Durfee - An outlawed ore train awaits a new crew with an impressive Alco consist of a C-628 leading three C-636's in Hudson, OH in November 1977.

Roger Durfee - Another goodie from the early days of Conrail. PC 6270 (SD-40) and LV 506 (U23B) are sitting on the west leg of the wye at Hudson, Ohio in November 1976. Neither unit has been restenciled, but that ex PC cabin car going by over on the main is already blue. Just a note from, this photo is large enough to make a great 800x600 wallpaper image and has already spent some time on my home monitor; I do love Roger's photos!

Roger Durfee - Train CIME pauses at South St. TBS in Akron, Ohio. Bangor & Aroostook 86 (GP-38) helps out xPC 3157 (GP-40) and another xPC unit in this Sept 1979 view. (A quick note: BAR 86 made the rounds around the Northeast, from Ohio to Pennsylvania.)

Roger Durfee - CR 6771 (SD-50) leads CR 6015 plus a switcher on PIME-3 heading north on the Youngstown Line just outside of New Castle, PA on April 23, 1989.

Roger Durfee - Westbound PC 3150 leads two EL U25B's, all still in original numbers, by SR Tower on the former Erie Lackawanna in Susquehanna, PA in September 1976.

Roger Durfee - Conrail SD-45-2 6657 (ex-EL 3672) with an xRDG C-630 and an xPC GP-9 pass through Berea, Ohio in November 1977.

Roger Durfee - Here is a little "early blue" to look at from the Youngstown, Ohio area. This is the former Erie Brier Hill yard, a good place to find Alco power in Conrail's first few years. The trailing Alco C-425 is an ex-New Haven unit and is running out its last few months at this location. It would be renumbered 5087 by year's end and retired soon after. The GP-10 would work well into the 80's. Today, most tracks here are gone, replaced by a junk auto recycle business. What does remain is operated by the Ohio Central System, and there are usually a couple of units around.

Roger Durfee - A grab shot on the Northeast Corridor at Newark, NJ in June of 1977 (note the former LV line to Oak Island above the units). It shows that some of the PC Alco S-2's ran for a while early on in Conrail. These small shifters also worked in Buffalo, along with some Alco RS-1's no less.

Roger Durfee - A C-636, C-630, C-628 and C-630 head up this ore train at Maple Height, Ohio, which is near Cleveland, during November 1976.

Roger Durfee - PC GP-38 7961 is with LV U23B 507 and EL GP-9 1260 in Cleveland, Ohio in November 1976.

Roger Durfee - A classic Winter day, a rare former-Lehigh Valley GP-38AC (CR 7658) leads a general merchandise train on the old Erie Lackawanna mainline in March 1978 at Rittman, OH. Conrail owned only four LV GP-38AC's, so they were a treat to shoot no matter what the weather.

Roger Durfee - xEL 3684 GP-35 is leading TV-98 eastbound on old home rails through Akron, OH in September 1977.

Roger Durfee - Spring thaw snow melt reveals two units in need of attention at the Collinwood shops in Cleveland, OH in March 1978. Ex-Lehigh Valley Alco C-628 #6736 and ex-Reading GE U30C #6579 are xLV 640 and xRDG 6300.