GE B36-7

TV-4 rolling through Altoona station on the evening of July 26, 1987.

GP40-2 3392 leads TVLA-6 up the main at West Haverstraw, NY

GP40-2 3399 leads TV-80 on its Friday only southbound trek on the River Line. Hoppers were set out for Orange Rockland Gas & Electric..

Mail 9 westbound on track two at View... Conrail's 9th birthday...

Conrail B36-7 5000 is trailing on a westbound TV train at Cresson, PA in 1986. The trio of B36s have just notched out and are doing their best to put an ALCo to shame.

Conrail B36-7 5000 is seen trailing on a westbound TV train at Mifflin, PA in 1993.

CR 5002 at Bloomington, IL May 9, 1999. Todd Pendleton photo, Chris Howe collection

5002 (B36-7) shown at JLS in Altoona, PA pn May 26th, 1994. Terry Nardella photo, collection of Steve Ondik.

Conrail B36-7 5002 is seen leading an eastbound TV train through Bethlehem, PA

Conrail B36-7 5003 is seen leading a westbound auto parts train at Lewistown, PA in 1992.

Westbound Conrail freight led by 5006 at Waterloo, IN in July 1996

CR 5007 is on the point of ALHB at CP-BURN in Allentown, Pa 11/1994

The Bryan local with the 5008 for power poses on the bridge over the Tiffin river in Stryker, OH back in March 1996. This is the same engine that I got on a RR241 a month earlier by Van Wert, OH.

What you often get when you "wipe the throttle" on a GE. B36-7 5009 has a little "heartburn" with TV-9 at MP 139 in Hinsdale, MA. on Sept.3, 1993.

Conrail B36-7 5011 is trailing on an westbound TV train crossing the Little Conemaugh River on the viaduct between South Fork and Mineral Point in 1984. The train must have been a heavy one, since there are helpers ahead of the trio of B-boats serving as road power.

CR 5013, another CR EMD, and a DRGW SD40T-2 powers a southbound UP coal train south of Tuscola, IL on December 18, 1997. This train came from the Nipsco plant in Wheatfield, IN as it was a unit train of NORX cars.

B36-7 5014 leads westbound BOSE at MP 129 in Becket, MA. on July 25, 1992.

BOSE continues past MP 129 in Becket, MA. on July 25, 1992. ConRail, like it's predecessors, had a proclivity for using the B&A as a testing ground for new power. The New York Central borrowed a set of German built Krauss-Maffei diesel hydraulics from the Rio Grande back in the '50's to test on this route. The combination of tonnage, grades, and curvature proved to be more than the, relatively, delicate diesel hydraulic drive could handle. And, of course, in 1926 the world's first 2-8-4 steam loco, Lima's "Super Power" A-1 would be named after these hills in western Massachusetts. The Boston & Albany would acquire 60 of them and adopt Lima's designation as their class....A1a, A1b, and A1c.

Buffalo line, CP Stoney - Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA
April 23, 1994
B36-7 5015
ML411
With a pair of B36-7s bracketing a CSX SD50 and a CR U23B bringing up the rear, a classic Conrail (and PRR, if you add the position signal) scene is captured on the Buffalo Line back in '94.
Photo by Don Kalkman III

Conrail 5018 leads Eastbound BRSE-1 on track #1 near MP 120.2 in North Kingsville, Ohio.

Conrail B36-7 5020 is leading a westbound TV train through Cresson, PA in 1986.

Conrail B36-7 5021 is seen leading a long Mail9H at Rockville Bridge on 10/20/1990

TV-3M drops downgrade through Lilly, Pa

A lengthy train of Clairton coke rolls west on the busy Fort Wayne Line.

TV-202 kicks up the snow as it runs wrong main and passes the double semaphores at 318.

B36-7 5024 leads a mixed lash-up with ML482 at the summit in Hinsdale, MA. on Sept. 26, 1998. UP SD40-2 3326 trails. GE B36-7's were never common on the B&A. CR tried them out on the Boston line when they were new, as they did with the B40-8's, but must have come to the conclusion that the high horsepower 4 axles weren't suited to the grades and curves of the route.