CONRAIL

This page will continue the former Pennsylvania railroad mainline across Pennsylvania from Lewsitown to Altoona.

   SD50 6701 brings PIEN east near Mount Union, PA in 1990.

  The former PRR freight station in Mount Union, PA.  1985.

  Just west of Mount Union is (was?) 'Jacks Tower.  It is named after the mountain ridge through which the railroad passes.

  6757 brings a coal train eastward through Mapleton.  Note the very recent removal of the rail.  1985.

   SD40 6461 westbound at Ardenheim, PA.  October 1990.

      Huntingdon, PA station and 'Hunt' Tower in 1985.

     6501 rolls through town westbound in the late afternoon. Also June 1985..

  The next morning brings a heavy valley fog as SD40 6309 comes through eastbound.

   GE unit 6000 is eastbound passing the now privately owned and restored 'Hunt' tower.  1990.

   The eastbound "Pennsylvanian' arrives in town.

  Shortly thereafter, westbound # 47 heads west    meeting PIEN.

  This train has been stopped by a defective wheel journal.

  Finally, westbound B-40-8 5084 on Mail-9.  October 12, 1990.

     GP38 8092 leads ENIN (Enola-Indianapolis) west through Warrior Ridge, PA.

  A new GE 6083 rolls west near Petersburg.

  SD40 6518 passes through Spruce Creek.

  Amtrak F40 303 brings the eastbound 'Broadway' through Tyrone in the morning of June 22, 1985.

  An eastbound at the same location in 1990.

  In weather totally appropriate for its name, 'Gray' tower stands in Tyrone.

    6720 leads an eastbound coal train by the tower in 1985.

    B-30-7 5051 is westbound approaching Altoona.  

    At the very east end of the Altoona yard area is C.P. Antis.  The tower was closed already in this 1985 view.

  GP40-2 3403 is westbound at Antis.

    A quartet of shut down and ready for retirement GP7 and GP9's sit near Antis.

  A white-lined U25B sits in the yard awaiting the scrap yard.  Altoona has served the Pennsylvania Railroad, Penn Central, Conrail and now Norfolk Southern as a major locomotive shop.  

  A single switcher moves through the yard tracks.

  6662 and 6667 are former Erie-Lackawanna SD45-2's and were assigned to pusher service by Conrail.  Several pairs of the units worked out of Altoona for many years.

   A pair of GP38's are assigned to the rail train.  June 22, 1985.

     Another pair of the ex-EL SD45-2's move through the yard as scores of retired first generations units sit awaiting the torch.

  'Alto' tower sits at the bottom of the grade and controlled all movements at the west of the yard.

    6742 comes down off the mountain and past the tower with a hopper train.

     A pair of SD40's drop down the hill and into Altoona at 'Slope'.

        A westbound train begins the tough climb over the backbone of the Allegheny Mountains.  Two helpers are on the point and two more push against the caboose.  June 22, 1985.

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