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Viewing Album:  Penn Central
 
By:John Hepp
Dates:1/1/1973 - 12/31/1980
Album Info:Although a lot of rail buffs hated the PC, as a teen I thought the PC was not all bad. A clean, fully-lettered locomotive in black looked OK and the lines were no better under the late-PRR or NYC.
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Penn Central 4890
Title:  Penn Central 4890
Description:  A clean GG1 (likely in Amtrak service) at 30th Street Station just before Conrail in March 1976.
Photo Date:  3/24/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 8:42:19 AM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  PC 4890(GG1)
Views:  276   Comments: 0
Penn Central 2345
Title:  Penn Central 2345
Description:  An EMD GP35 leads a freight train through the PATH Journal Square station in Jersey City in March 1976.
Photo Date:  3/24/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 3:59:25 PM
Location:  Jersey City, NJ
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PC 2345(GP35)
Views:  240   Comments: 0
Penn Central 8404
Title:  Penn Central 8404
Description:  An EMD SW1 brings a short work train over the highline by Thirtieth Street Station in March 1976.
Photo Date:  3/24/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 7:32:36 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  PC 8404(SW1)
Views:  279   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4448
Title:  Penn Central 4448
Description:  A GE E-44 rests with its pantograph down at South Philadelphia Yard in March 1976.
Photo Date:  3/27/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 7:52:04 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PC 4448(E44)
Views:  222   Comments: 0
Penn Central 2216
Title:  Penn Central 2216
Description:  A few weeks after the creation of Conrail, evidence of the new regime are these PC locomotives at Bethlehem engine terminal in April 1976.
Photo Date:  4/10/1976  Upload Date: 8/26/2013 9:13:56 PM
Location:  Bethlehem, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PC 2216(GP30) PC 2218(GP30)
Views:  270   Comments: 0
Penn Central 2232
Title:  Penn Central 2232
Description:  Some early evidence of Conrail, a PC EMD GP30 heads a freight train at the ex-LV (and before that, CNJ) Allentown Yard in April 1976.
Photo Date:  4/10/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 8:34:55 AM
Location:  Bethlehem, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PC 2232(GP30)
Views:  309   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4238
Title:  Penn Central 4238
Description:  An ex-PRR EMD E7A at the scrap yard in Morrisville, PA, in April 1976.
Photo Date:  4/10/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 2:32:07 PM
Location:  Morrisville, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PC 4238(E7A)
Views:  355   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4880
Title:  Penn Central 4880
Description:  A Penn Central GG1 still in the old PRR livery (so this engine is dark green not black) heads a North Jersey Coast train at Newark in April 1976.
Photo Date:  4/15/1976  Upload Date: 8/24/2013 9:45:53 PM
Location:  Newark Penn Station, NJ
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  PC 4880(GG1)
Views:  217   Comments: 0
Penn Central 9159
Title:  Penn Central 9159
Description:  The PRR had a line to Reading and coal country that offered competition to the Reading Railroad. Here a few weeks after Conrail, an EMD SW7 sits in the old PRR yard in Reading.
Photo Date:  4/18/1976  Upload Date: 8/26/2013 8:13:33 PM
Location:  Reading, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PC 9159(NW2R)
Views:  294   Comments: 0
Penn Central 6270
Title:  Penn Central 6270
Description:  In April 1976, early evidence of Conrail is this EMD SD40 at the ex-Reading Abrams Yard.
Photo Date:  4/18/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 9:52:41 AM
Location:  Upper Merion, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  PC 6270(SD40) PC 6085(SD40)
Views:  397   Comments: 0
Penn Central 7157
Title:  Penn Central 7157
Description:  An EMD GP9 at Phillipsburg, NJ, May 1976
Photo Date:  5/8/1976  Upload Date: 8/26/2013 8:15:33 PM
Location:  Phillipsburg, NJ
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PC 7157(GP9)
Views:  231   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4934
Title:  Penn Central 4934
Description:  A very clean GG1 awaiting its next train at Harrisburg in May 1976.
Photo Date:  5/15/1976  Upload Date: 8/24/2013 9:49:53 PM
Location:  Harrisburg, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PC 4934(GG1)
Views:  269   Comments: 0
Penn Central 2202
Title:  Penn Central 2202
Description:  A shiny, black PC GP30 in the ex-Readings yard at Reading in May 1976. It was fun in the early days of Conrail to find the occasional oddly placed unit.
Photo Date:  5/15/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 8:28:13 AM
Location:  Reading, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PC 2202(GP30) RDG 903(FP7A)
Views:  581   Comments: 0
Penn Central 5579
Title:  Penn Central 5579
Description:  Just after Conrail in May 1976, an ALCO RS3 in the scrap line at Baltimore. Photographed at speed from a passing Amtrak train.
Photo Date:  5/15/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 8:38:17 AM
Location:  Baltimore, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PC 5579(RS3) PC 5442(RS3)
Views:  819   Comments: 0
Penn Central 2208
Title:  Penn Central 2208
Description:  Two EMD GP30 lead a freight train on the High Line (the elevated freight bypass around Thirtieth Street Station) in May 1976. Photographed from a passing Conrail/SEPTA train.
Photo Date:  5/15/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 2:33:50 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  PC 2208(GP30) PC 2213(GP30)
Views:  322   Comments: 0
Penn Central 272
Title:  Penn Central 272
Description:  An EMD E8A in Amtrak service, near Albany, May 1976.
Photo Date:  5/17/1976  Upload Date: 8/26/2013 8:18:12 PM
Location:  Rensselaer, NY
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  PC 272(E8A)
Views:  384   Comments: 0
Penn Central 5046
Title:  Penn Central 5046
Description:  An EMD FL9 at Grand Central Terminal in May 1976. The FL9s were ex-New Haven units that ran electrially on current drawn from the third rail but also had a diesel engine.
Photo Date:  5/17/1976  Upload Date: 8/26/2013 8:21:34 PM
Location:  New York Grand Centr, NY
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  PC 5046(FL9)
Views:  190   Comments: 0
Penn Central 2525
Title:  Penn Central 2525
Description:  A GE U25B leads a short freight train through the Amtrak station at Albany in May 1976.
Photo Date:  5/17/1976  Upload Date: 8/26/2013 8:25:53 PM
Location:  New York Grand Centr, NY
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  PC 2525(U25B)
Views:  293   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4896
Title:  Penn Central 4896
Description:  A clean GG1 (likely in Amtrak service) at Race Street Engine Terminal. The CNR boxcars behind the locomotive are full of newsprint and bound for the nearby plant of The Evening Bulletin. May 1976.
Photo Date:  5/18/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 9:48:11 AM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives:  PC 4896(GG1)
Views:  242   Comments: 0
PC 5034
Title:  PC 5034
Description:  Two ex-New Haven FL9s at Croton-Harmon, NY, May 1976.
Photo Date:  5/19/1976  Upload Date: 8/26/2013 8:11:14 PM
Location:  Croton Harmon, NY
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PC 5034(FL9)
Views:  262   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4081
Title:  Penn Central 4081
Description:  An ex-New York Central EMD E8A in the scrap line at Morrisville, PA, in May 1976.
Photo Date:  5/22/1976  Upload Date: 8/26/2013 8:59:09 PM
Location:  Morrisville, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PC 4081(E8A)
Views:  298   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4235
Title:  Penn Central 4235
Description:  An ex-PRR EMD E7A in the scrap line at Morrisville, PA, May 1976.
Photo Date:  5/22/1976  Upload Date: 8/26/2013 9:01:27 PM
Location:  Morrisville, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PC 4235(E7A)
Views:  484   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4210
Title:  Penn Central 4210
Description:  An ex-PRR EMD E7A in the scrap line at Morrisville in May 1976.
Photo Date:  5/22/1976  Upload Date: 8/26/2013 9:05:12 PM
Location:  Morrisville, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PC 4210(E7A)
Views:  297   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4095
Title:  Penn Central 4095
Description:  A fully repainted Penn Central E8A in the scrap line in Morrisville in May 1976.
Photo Date:  5/22/1976  Upload Date: 8/26/2013 9:06:48 PM
Location:  Morrisville, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PC 4095(E8A)
Views:  305   Comments: 0
Penn Central 7793
Title:  Penn Central 7793
Description:  A basic black EMD GP38 heads a Conrail freight train Croxton Yard in August 1976.
Photo Date:  5/22/1976  Upload Date: 8/26/2013 9:10:08 PM
Location:  Morrisville, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PC 7793(GP38)
Views:  267   Comments: 0
Penn Central 8514
Title:  Penn Central 8514
Description:  An EMD SW1 at Harrisburg in June 1976.
Photo Date:  6/15/1976  Upload Date: 8/25/2013 6:04:12 PM
Location:  Harrisburg, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PC 8514(SW1)
Views:  299   Comments: 0
Penn Central 8568
Title:  Penn Central 8568
Description:  An EMD SW1 working at Paoli shops (in the background is a Silverliner still with a PRR logo). June 1976.
Photo Date:  6/15/1976  Upload Date: 8/25/2013 6:06:20 PM
Location:  Paoli, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  PC 8568(SW1)
Views:  527   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4889
Title:  Penn Central 4889
Description:  A GG1 in basic black at Harrisburg in June 1976.
Photo Date:  6/15/1976  Upload Date: 8/26/2013 9:22:52 PM
Location:  Harrisburg, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PC 4889(GG1)
Views:  213   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4427
Title:  Penn Central 4427
Description:  A GE E44 leads a freight west through Paoli in June 1976.
Photo Date:  6/23/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 9:50:05 AM
Location:  Paoli, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Bridge,Station,Action
Locomotives:  PC 4427(E44)
Views:  263   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4733
Title:  Penn Central 4733
Description:  An ALCO/GE ex-NYC S2 on an excursion train photographed at North White Plains, NY, on July 4, 1976.
Photo Date:  7/4/1976  Upload Date: 8/25/2013 5:50:09 PM
Location:  North White Plains, NY
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  PC 4733(S-2)
Views:  364   Comments: 1
Penn Central 1718
Title:  Penn Central 1718
Description:  On an eastbound Conrail freight train stopped at Suffern, NY, I saw my first PC F7 ever in July 1976.
Photo Date:  7/15/1976  Upload Date: 8/24/2013 9:52:06 PM
Location:  Suffern, NY
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PC 1718(F7A)
Views:  354   Comments: 0
Penn Central 7638
Title:  Penn Central 7638
Description:  PC 7638 works a local freight coupled to an ex-Lehigh Valley caboose at Newark in July 1976.
Photo Date:  7/15/1976  Upload Date: 8/25/2013 5:59:04 PM
Location:  Newark, NJ
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  PC 7638(RS11)
Views:  580   Comments: 1
Penn Central 4879
Title:  Penn Central 4879
Description:  A clean GG1 on a North Jersey Coast train in July 1976 at Newark.
Photo Date:  7/15/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 8:44:08 AM
Location:  Newark Penn Station, NJ
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  PC 4879(GG1)
Views:  298   Comments: 0
Penn Central 7650
Title:  Penn Central 7650
Description:  Two great PC cabooses with an Alco RS11 in Newark in July 1976. Photographed from the Conrail Crusader.
Photo Date:  7/15/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 9:55:47 AM
Location:  Newark, NJ
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  RollingStock,Bridge,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  PC 7650(RS11)
Views:  764   Comments: 0
Penn Central 8095
Title:  Penn Central 8095
Description:  More early evidence of Conrail, an EMD GP38-2 on the ex-Erie-Lackawanna at Suffern, NY, in July 1976.
Photo Date:  7/17/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 9:59:00 AM
Location:  Suffern, NY
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PC 8095(GP38-2)
Views:  358   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4828
Title:  Penn Central 4828
Description:  A very dirty eastbound GG1 still partially in PRR lettering at Harrisburg in July 1976.
Photo Date:  7/20/1976  Upload Date: 8/25/2013 6:01:09 PM
Location:  Harrisburg, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PC 4828(GG1)
Views:  337   Comments: 0
Penn Central 3213
Title:  Penn Central 3213
Description:  One of those odd post-Conrail juxtapositions: a train headed by PC power pulls through the ex-CNJ station at Elizabethport, NJ, in August 1976.
Photo Date:  8/11/1976  Upload Date: 8/25/2013 5:56:53 PM
Location:  Elizabethport, NJ
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PC 3213(GP40) PC 7993(GP38-2)
Views:  421   Comments: 0
Penn Central 7621
Title:  Penn Central 7621
Description:  An ALCO RS11 at Morrisville, PA, in August 1976 photographed from a passing Amtrak train.
Photo Date:  8/11/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 10:00:53 AM
Location:  Morrisville, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PC 7621(RS11) PC 6870(RSD12) RDG 633(GP7)
Views:  725   Comments: 0
Penn Central 2240
Title:  Penn Central 2240
Description:  This view of an EMD GP30 heading a freight train was taken from the Amtrak Montrealer in Wilmington, DE, in August 1976.
Photo Date:  8/14/1976  Upload Date: 8/25/2013 5:52:21 PM
Location:  Baltimore, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PC 2240(GP30)
Views:  368   Comments: 0
Penn Central 6106
Title:  Penn Central 6106
Description:  Two EMD SD45s head a westbound freight train on the ex-Reading line at Abrams Yard in August 1976.
Photo Date:  8/14/1976  Upload Date: 8/26/2013 9:15:56 PM
Location:  Upper Merion, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  PC 6106(SD45) PC 6109(SD45)
Views:  455   Comments: 2
Penn Central 6558
Title:  Penn Central 6558
Description:  A GE U33C at Croxton Yard in August 1976.
Photo Date:  8/14/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 8:20:20 AM
Location:  Croxton, NJ
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PC 6558(U33C)
Views:  395   Comments: 0
Penn Central 5316
Title:  Penn Central 5316
Description:  An ALCO RS3 sits in the dead line at Newark in August 1976. The overhead wire in the background is on the old Lackawanna line.
Photo Date:  8/14/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 8:23:41 AM
Location:  Kearny, NJ
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PC 5316(RS3)
Views:  657   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4973
Title:  Penn Central 4973
Description:  An ex-New Haven EP5 rusting away in the scrap line at Newark in August 1976.
Photo Date:  8/14/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 9:46:23 AM
Location:  Harrison, NJ
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PC 4973(E40)
Views:  516   Comments: 0
Penn Central 2232
Title:  Penn Central 2232
Description:  An EMD GP30 with a booster at Bayview Yard in Baltimore in August 1976.
Photo Date:  8/14/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 3:55:58 PM
Location:  , MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PC 2232(GP30) PC 3812(GP9B)
Views:  430   Comments: 0
Penn Central 6141
Title:  Penn Central 6141
Description:  An EMD SD45 heads a freight on the former Reading line through Port Kennedy, PA, August 1976.
Photo Date:  8/18/1976  Upload Date: 8/24/2013 9:53:51 PM
Location:  Port Kennedy, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PC 6141(SD45)
Views:  192   Comments: 0
Penn Central 5511
Title:  Penn Central 5511
Description:  Not long after the formation of Conrail in August 1976, an ALCO RS3 discloses its original owner in a scrap line in Harrison.
Photo Date:  8/18/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 8:40:38 AM
Location:  Harrison, NJ
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PC 5511(RS3)
Views:  283   Comments: 0
Penn Central 7626
Title:  Penn Central 7626
Description:  An ALCO RS11 at Newark in August 1976 photographed from the Conrail Crusader.
Photo Date:  8/18/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 10:05:26 AM
Location:  Newark, NJ
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PC 7626(RS11)
Views:  297   Comments: 0
Penn Central 8806
Title:  Penn Central 8806
Description:  An EMD NW2 at Newark in August 1976 photographed from the Conrail Crusader
Photo Date:  8/18/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 2:25:30 PM
Location:  Newark, NJ
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  PC 8806(NW2)
Views:  400   Comments: 0
Penn Central 7829
Title:  Penn Central 7829
Description:  Just post Conrail, motive power and train services shifted a great deal. Here an ex-PC set of engines brings a freight train onto the ex Erie-Lackawanna Croxton Yard in August 1976.
Photo Date:  8/21/1976  Upload Date: 8/25/2013 5:55:03 PM
Location:  Croxton, NJ
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PC 7829(GP38)
Views:  389   Comments: 0
Penn Central 2406
Title:  Penn Central 2406
Description:  Another rare locomotive that I was thrilled to see was this ALCO RS27 at Croxton Yard in September 1976.
Photo Date:  9/11/1976  Upload Date: 8/24/2013 4:16:07 PM
Location:  Croxton, NJ
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PC 2406(RS27)
Views:  474   Comments: 0

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