John C. Durant has been shooting CR action since day 1. His career put him in the right place at the right time many times, and we are lucky to be able to bring you his photography from the beginning to the end of Big Blue.
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Delaware & Hudson run thru NE 84 heads for the Buffalo Line at Rockville, PA lead by an exConrail GP40.
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It's a cold and frosty Christmas Eve morning as OIEL-4 hits the single iron at CP-Sloatsburg on the Southern Tier. Three CNW GP50's lead a single Conrail unit as the train picks up speed heading west.
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GP15 1656 and GP38-2 8187 team to pull 20 cars of pipe out of East Mckeesport and over to Shire Oaks. The railroad is the Union and the tracks in the foreground belong to the P&LE/CSX.
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Eastbound Grain Extra powered by 1955, 7948, 1945, 3005 and 3327, Thompsontown, PA 10/09/1982
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Four B23-7's(1972, 1975, 1910 and 1971 power a southbound Detroit Edison unit train at Green, Pa on the MGA 4/02/1982
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B23-7 1979 plus GP38 7923 and GP38-2 8278 power UOH-83 by CP-CITY Monongahela, PA on the Mon Line. Bridge in the background was crossed many times as a youngster on family trips to West Virginia.
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C420's 2072 and 2074 rest between runs on home rails Warwick, NY 7/27/1977
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C420's 2072 and 2077 lead an exEL GP7 on MJ68 at East Rutherford, NJ on the once four track former EL nee ERIE main line
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GP30 2211 in fresh paint leads a Martins Creek bound PP&L coal train near Aqueduct, PA
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Local freight A-1 with GP30 2222 and GP10 7569 exits the Jamesburg Branch and enters the Northeast Corridor for the run back to Morrisville, Pa 11/28/1978
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A westbound PP&L empty hopper train with a GP35 and a GP30 for power at Bethlehem, Pa 2/07/1981
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SYEN-9X swings toward Enola Yard behing a GP35/SD45 combo. Note the High & Wide load behind the locomotives, the EL boxcar missing a door and the red Raritan River boxcar. The RR was later folded into Conrail.
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OIPI-3 with GP35 2323 leading swings onto the Conemaugh at ConPit Jct., New Florence, PA
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GP35 2349 heads up two ex Reading GP30's at Frenchtown, Md on an Indian River Bound coal train the morning of 3/03/1978
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PC RS27 2406, PC F7a 1772 and PC GP35 2354 power Conrail HB-3 west at Ramapo, NY 8-09-1976. Friendlys Bar was located next to the tracks here and was a favorite.
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C425 2441 leads GP8 5407 on UFS-31A as it heads west passing what would become CRHS Presidents back yard. 3-05-1979, two days before MY 35th birthday.....
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Three U25B's 2512, 2522 and 2507 power SELI-7 east out of Selkirk Yard approaching the Castleton Bridge bound for the Long Island RR at Fresh Pond Jct. 10/07/1976
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CR VW-1 with 2539, 2290 and 2654 providing the power runs the siding between CP-13 and CP-7 on the River Line.
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SYSE-1 arrives at the west end of Selkirk Yard at Fuera Bush, NY 7/01/1978
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U23b 2700 and GP38-2 8174 power XM-6 toward Port Reading, NJ at Piscataway, NJ
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Trains don't run here anymore, but maybe someday? HJ-2 with U23B 2743, U25B 2641, SD35 6019 and GP7 5741 crests the hill on the former CNJ at Hampton, NJ 2 days after Conrails second birthday 4/03/1978
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U23B 2751 leads grain mty's downgrade at Gallitzin and an eastbound works up-grade 10/24/1977
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In the early Conrail days, U23B 2776 running long hood forward powers HB-3 approaching "BT" and the interchange with the NYS&W. 1/22/1977
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SEPY-6 southbound at MP-10 Teaneck, NJ on the River Line behind all four axle power. In the coming years it will be unusual to see anything but bigger power on this train.
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DADN-1 northbound on the former West Shore at Stoney Point, NY on 6/11/1990
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B23-7's 2814, 2809 and 2801 power OPSE-8 out of Break Neck Tunnel, Cold Spring, NY on 1/18/80
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Back when a few cups of coffee and a couple of donuts made you and the crew friends for life. My good friend Larry is about to enter the cab of U30B 2847 and JN-5 waits at Bethlehem for permission to enter Allentown Yard. 3/24/1978
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Southbound MW-1a powered by 2930, 2512 and 3064 approaching MP-10 Teaneck, NJ
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Conrail TV-10 arrives at Croxton Yard, Secaucus, NJ behind an early CR lash-up lead by U33B 2953. 6/19/1976
