Ken Freeman - Black and white photography can be just as dramatic as color, maybe more so. Ken captured this freight on at MP 384 on the Chicago Line. The rock wall to the right is the old embankment where the West Shore used to cross the NYC mainline.

Lee Weldon - Lee says this is one of his favorite photos. You can just hear the trainman shouting down: "And when you're done filling 'er up, could you check the oil and toss up a bag of ice?"

Steve Geisler - It's only two months since the Conrail merger and PC 2316 GP-35 sits in its original colors under what I assume is an old New Haven coaling dock in New Haven, CT, sometime in June 1976.

Pete Ruesch - CR 1608 is passing the "shorty" semaphore at Crawfordsville, Indiana with CSX Z460, AKA Conrail WSAV-22.

Pete Ruesch - Conrail train UGS-21 heads west through Danville, Indiana, behind SD-60M 5629 late in the afternoon of April 4, 1998.

Pete Ruesch - Conrail E-8A 4021 leads an Operation Lifesaver special on CSX rails, running as P918-13, past milepost 147 at Crawfordsville, Indiana, on May 15, 1998.

Pete Ruesch - On a different Lifesaver trip, 4021 races northward on Conrail's Marion Branch with train OCS-502 near Silver Lake, Indiana, on June 24, 1998.

Jeff Lubchansky - The observation dome of Conrail 55.

Mike Szilagyi - It's March 1978 at Port Kennedy, PA, and snow still blankets the tracks in the late afternoon as CR 6292, a former CNJ SD-40 3068) leads a train. Mike shot the scene on the way home from school. That crewman must have been cold walking between the two locomotives!

George Elwood - The photo of Conrail 2 to the right was taken by George Elwood on a cold, snowy day. The car was coupled to the rear of an Amtrak train, which was not the usual place to find a Conrail business car. Brrr...you can almost feel the snow. This eventually became Conrail 19.

David Frye Coll. - Sometimes the train is only one small element of a great scenic photo, as is the case in this official Conrail publicity photo from the late 1970s taken by Kent Campbell and titled Along The Ohio River--Cincinnati, Ohio. From the personal collection of David P. Frye.

David Frye Coll. - A familiar scene on 1970s Conrail, a trainman waving from the top of a caboose to a tower operator below. The title of this official Conrail photopgraph taken by Don Jilson is Greetings Exchanged, Horseheads, New York. From the personal collection of David P. Frye.

David Frye Coll. - Sunsets are often the subject of railfan and oficial railroad photography as the case in Sunset In Upstate New York by official Conrail PR photographer Kent Campbell from the late 1970s. From the personal collection of David P. Frye.

David Frye Coll. - This photo bring a tear to the eye of your old webmaster. Many a day I saw this very scene played out in the Reading area. From the looks of the scenery the photo appears to have been taken along the old Lehigh Valley Branch (aka Harrisburg Line) somewhere in the Wernersville area. Official Conrail photographer Ken Kauffman shot the scene in the late 1970s and titled it Hauling Coal, Near Reading, Pennsylvania.

Dave Frye Coll. - Another official Conrail photo taken by Joe Jack outside Ambridge, PA in the late 1970s. The third unit is a Union Pacific GP-9B. Also take notice of the funky freight cars.