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By:Tom Beckett
Dates:1/1/1976 - 6/1/1999
Album Info:Photos of Conrail action in and around the ex PRR yard at Enola, Marysville, Rockville Bridge and vicinity.
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Dead line
Title:  Dead line
Description:  There will be a bunch of these. The Enola dead line abounded with all kinds of diesels in the mid 80s. I took several photos from points along US 11/15 hoping to capture some of the power that would soon be going to its final rest. Some nuits still wore their pre Conrail garb-note the ex EL GP 35 to the right rear.
Photo Date:  8/6/1985  Upload Date: 10/4/2014 2:16:54 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 2172(GP30) CR 6690(SDP45) CR 6081(SD45) CR 3691(GP35) CR 9214(NW2) CR 7463(GP9)
Views:  862   Comments: 0
Dead Line
Title:  Dead Line
Description:  Enola engine facility is filled with diesels awaiting their final moments. There were many SW types present, marking the end of the end cab switcher era on Conrail. New GP 15's and B23's, as well as demoted U23's and GP 38's of various types took over much of the local and yard work.
Photo Date:  8/6/1985  Upload Date: 10/4/2014 2:22:09 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 8983(SW9) CR 3657(GP35) CR 2209(GP30) CR 8973(SW9)
Views:  634   Comments: 0
Dead Line
Title:  Dead Line
Description:  More death row units.
Photo Date:  8/6/1985  Upload Date: 10/4/2014 2:24:01 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 2218(GP30) CR 7383(GP9) CR 2228(GP30)
Views:  466   Comments: 0
Dead Line
Title:  Dead Line
Description:  Retired units awaiting the end. That EL hopper in the foreground must be counting its blessings, as two of its former locomotive colleagues, a U36C and SDP45, are headed for the gallows.
Photo Date:  8/6/1985  Upload Date: 10/4/2014 2:26:59 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 2255(GP35) CR 6892(U36C) CR 6690(SDP45) CR 2960(U33B) CR 2172(GP30) CR 9214(NW2)
Views:  1320   Comments: 0
SD 45
Title:  SD 45
Description:  An ex PC SD45 sits in among eh condemned at Enola
Photo Date:  8/6/1985  Upload Date: 10/4/2014 2:32:24 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 6132(SD45) CR 2228(GP30) CR 8694(SW8)
Views:  466   Comments: 1
Big U boat
Title:  Big U boat
Description:  A U36C is front and center in this shot of the retirees at Enola. "Four Deuces" GP30 2222 is peeking out from behind the U boat.
Photo Date:  8/6/1985  Upload Date: 10/4/2014 2:36:54 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 6885(U36C) CR 7042(GP9) CR 2222(GP30) CR 8694(SW8) CR 8973(SW9)
Views:  781   Comments: 0
Yard power
Title:  Yard power
Description:  Along with a group of SD38s, Conrail also used U23Cs in yard service, such as this pair at the east end of Enola. Note the ex PRR gon partly visible to the left of 6908
Photo Date:  8/6/1985  Upload Date: 10/4/2014 2:38:12 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6908(U23C) CR 6909(U23C)
Views:  554   Comments: 0
Run through power
Title:  Run through power
Description:  A pair of B&O units, one still blue, rolls through Enola amid a sea of retired units.
Photo Date:  3/20/1986  Upload Date: 11/11/2014 3:39:54 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  BO 3752(GP40) BO 4011(GP40)
Views:  494   Comments: 2
Ready to go east
Title:  Ready to go east
Description:  An eastbound train is ready to roll behind a set of SD 40s
Photo Date:  3/20/1986  Upload Date: 11/15/2014 4:08:15 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6372(SD40-2) CR 6461(SD40-2) CR 6432(SD40-2) CR 6316(SD40)
Views:  540   Comments: 0
Trim power
Title:  Trim power
Description:  Conrail used U23Cs at Enola to work the east end of the yard, trimming bowl tracks and pulling cars out for the departure tracks. Here are four of them waiting for the next move. Conrail had not run an electric train in five years at this point, but there are still a lot of wires over the east end of Enola.
Photo Date:  3/20/1986  Upload Date: 11/11/2014 3:25:05 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6909(U23C) CR 6904(U23C) CR 6905(U23C) CR 6906(U23C)
Views:  491   Comments: 0
Rolling east
Title:  Rolling east
Description:  An easbound train headed for Pot Yard starts out of Enola behind a pair of GP 38s.
Photo Date:  3/20/1986  Upload Date: 11/11/2014 3:41:28 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 7723(GP38) CR 7697(GP38)
Views:  367   Comments: 0
Long way from home
Title:  Long way from home
Description:  A Metro North FL 9 was at Enola during this visit. Must have been on the way to or from a rebuild.
Photo Date:  3/20/1986  Upload Date: 11/11/2014 3:43:17 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  MNCR 2016(FL9)
Views:  344   Comments: 0
Swinging off the bridge
Title:  Swinging off the bridge
Description:  ALEN rolls off Rockville Bridge and heads for Enola, with a hump set as its trailing two units.
Photo Date:  5/21/1986  Upload Date: 11/19/2014 1:53:34 PM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6598(C30-7A) CR 6313(SD40) CR 9541(SW1500) CR 6957(SD38)
Views:  771   Comments: 1
Hump set
Title:  Hump set
Description:  This SD38/SW 1500 hump set was in transit on ALEN, seen coming off Rockville Bridge.
Photo Date:  5/21/1986  Upload Date: 11/19/2014 1:55:32 PM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 9541(SW1500) CR 6957(SD38)
Views:  432   Comments: 1
Strangers
Title:  Strangers
Description:  A set of Chessie power lays over amid all kinds of Conrail units at Enola
Photo Date:  6/3/1986  Upload Date: 11/30/2014 3:19:00 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  BO 4118(GP40-2) BO 4033(GP40) BO 3758(GP40)
Views:  655   Comments: 4
Foreign visitors and a hometown surprise
Title:  Foreign visitors and a hometown surprise
Description:  A set of CSX power, a mix of Chessie and Seaboard units, sits at Enola in a partly blocked view. The surprise?? Amid the sea of Conrail units at Enola shop, is their executive E 8, 4022m the former Erie 833, seen at mid left of the photo.
Photo Date:  9/12/1986  Upload Date: 12/12/2014 2:36:04 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SBD 6779(GP40) CO 4412(GP40-2) CR 4022(E8A) SBD 6697(GP40)
Views:  583   Comments: 2
Going, gone...
Title:  Going, gone...
Description:  A quartet of trade ins are dead in tow behind the road power on this westbound. Three GP 30's and a 35 are headed to the boneyard.
Photo Date:  5/18/1987  Upload Date: 4/25/2015 4:21:32 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 2182(GP30) CR 2208(GP30) CR 2216(GP30) CR 3645(GP35) CR 6764(SD50) CR 6627(C36-7)
Views:  831   Comments: 0
Buffalo bound
Title:  Buffalo bound
Description:  ENBU rolls out of Enola with 97 cars. It will head across the river, then on to Williamsport and Olean NY before reaching Buffalo. On the way it will run through some of the most remote parts of PA.
Photo Date:  5/18/1987  Upload Date: 4/25/2015 4:40:12 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6389(SD40-2) CR 6350(SD40)
Views:  383   Comments: 0
Flying over
Title:  Flying over
Description:  The Pennsy had the good sense after WW 1 to design for high traffic, high density railroading, not wanting to get caught off guard should there ever be another time of great demand, and wanting to avoid another situation where the USRA took over operation of the railroads, as in the war. Thus they built a lot of multi track with flyovers, rather than at grade crossings. This proved to be marvelous foresight, as the PRR handled monumental levels of all kinds of trains during WW 2. It also had the added benefit of making them a much more efficient railroad than they would have been otherwise. A pair of SD40-2s is on one of the flyovers coming off Rockville Bridge and into Enola, passing over tracks that will lead to the Middle Division.
Photo Date:  5/18/1987  Upload Date: 4/26/2015 4:21:42 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6506(SD40-2) CR 6521(SD40-2)
Views:  445   Comments: 0
Rare bird
Title:  Rare bird
Description:  Conrail had only ten C30-7s, a model that was common elsewhere. They did go big for a modified version, the 12 cylinder C30-7A, of which they had 50. One of the straight C30s leads SEEN7 into Enola from Selkirk with 121 cars.
Photo Date:  5/18/1987  Upload Date: 4/26/2015 3:44:08 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6605(C30-7) CR 6280(SD40) CR 6254(SD40)
Views:  621   Comments: 1
ENPI with trade power
Title:  ENPI with trade power
Description:  ENPI rolls out of Enola with four trade units trailing the road power, a GP 35 and three GP 30s.
Photo Date:  5/18/1987  Upload Date: 4/26/2015 3:47:01 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6627(C36-7) CR 6764(SD50) CR 3645(GP35) CR 2216(GP30) CR 2208(GP30) CR 2182(GP30)
Views:  742   Comments: 1
SEEN7X
Title:  SEEN7X
Description:  There were two SEEN trains that day. This is the extra section, arriving at Enola with 117 cars and a bonus: cabin 23101, an ex PRR N5C
Photo Date:  5/18/1987  Upload Date: 4/26/2015 4:05:21 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6750(SD50) CR 6795(SD50) CR 6714(SD50) CR 6616(C32-8)
Views:  630   Comments: 1
In from Buffalo
Title:  In from Buffalo
Description:  A trio of SD50s and a U23B arrive at Enola with 132 cars behind them.
Photo Date:  5/18/1987  Upload Date: 4/26/2015 4:32:38 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6781(SD50) CR 6779(SD50) CR 6751(SD50) CR 2723(U23B)
Views:  621   Comments: 1
Yard pullers with a buggy
Title:  Yard pullers with a buggy
Description:  The trim engines are pulling a cut out of the west end of Enola. To my surprise, theres a Chessie van right behind the power. Still some cabooses on trains in those days, especially on trains to or from Virginia. Check out the P&LE gon second out.
Photo Date:  5/18/1987  Upload Date: 4/26/2015 4:36:22 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 7547(GP10) CR 7550(GP10)
Views:  547   Comments: 0
Busy place
Title:  Busy place
Description:  Enola could get wonderfully busy at times. Here we have SEEN7 coming in, waiting for the yard pullers to clear.
Photo Date:  5/18/1987  Upload Date: 4/26/2015 4:39:41 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 7547(GP10) CR 7550(GP10) CR 6605(C30-7) CR 6280(SD40) CR 6254(SD40)
Views:  922   Comments: 0
More pullers.
Title:  More pullers.
Description:  There were two sets of trim engines working the west end of Enola this day. This one also has a caboose, an SCL car. BUEN rolls in behind the yard job.
Photo Date:  5/18/1987  Upload Date: 4/26/2015 4:42:28 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 7551(GP10) CR 7537(GP10)
Views:  548   Comments: 0
Transfer
Title:  Transfer
Description:  A pair of four motors, one of them a GP 10, rolls into Enola with a cut of trailers from the Harrisburg intermodal yard across the river.
Photo Date:  5/18/1987  Upload Date: 4/25/2015 4:41:30 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 8126(GP38-2) CR 7571(GP10)
Views:  436   Comments: 0
Back to Virginia
Title:  Back to Virginia
Description:  ENRO departs Enola with the same power it came in with on ROEN. It was not in the yard long, just enough time to drop its inbound cars, then get its 103 car outbound train and get out of town. We see it on the flyover approach to Rockville.
Photo Date:  5/18/1987  Upload Date: 4/26/2015 4:45:48 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 8276(GP38-2) NS 1360(GP40) CR 8278(GP38-2)
Views:  543   Comments: 0
In from Buffalo
Title:  In from Buffalo
Description:  BUEN arrives at Enola, seen here going under the Iron Bridge with 115 cars.
Photo Date:  4/22/1988  Upload Date: 7/10/2015 2:46:02 PM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6333(SD40) CR 1969(B23-7) CR 6422(SD40-2) CR 6630(C36-7)
Views:  642   Comments: 1
Low down
Title:  Low down
Description:  An eastbound 100 car XWM grain train rolls into Enola on the riverside track that ducks under the west end of Rockville Bridge.
Photo Date:  4/22/1988  Upload Date: 7/10/2015 2:50:39 PM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6429(SD40-2) CR 6243(SD40) CR 7692(GP38)
Views:  566   Comments: 2
Bag of flour
Title:  Bag of flour
Description:  This C36-7 trailing on BUEN looks like someone tossed a big bag of flour at it.
Photo Date:  4/22/1988  Upload Date: 7/10/2015 2:52:32 PM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6630(C36-7)
Views:  318   Comments: 0
Pulling out the racks
Title:  Pulling out the racks
Description:  The yard trim engines have a cut of auto racks in hand as they work the west end of Enola. This was a common power set for Enola, which for some reason seemed not to get the SD 38/MT6 combination found elsewhere.
Photo Date:  4/22/1988  Upload Date: 7/10/2015 2:55:27 PM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6909(U23C) CR 7547(GP10)
Views:  305   Comments: 1
Trim engines
Title:  Trim engines
Description:  A U23C/GP 10 set of power is working the west end of Enola. This was a standard yard set here.
Photo Date:  4/22/1988  Upload Date: 7/10/2015 2:56:44 PM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6909(U23C) CR 7547(GP10)
Views:  389   Comments: 0
ALEN with classic power
Title:  ALEN with classic power
Description:  A pair of GP10s has a 91 car ALEN in tow arriving at Enola. The GP 10s were workhorses, but mostly ran on transfers and yard jobs. It was not common to see them on the road.
Photo Date:  4/22/1988  Upload Date: 7/10/2015 2:58:27 PM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 7551(GP10) CR 7548(GP10)
Views:  318   Comments: 1
End cabs and rebuilds
Title:  End cabs and rebuilds
Description:  A pair of end cab units, one an MP 15, the other an SW 1500, work at the west end of Enola as ALEN rolls in behind a pair of GP 10s.
Photo Date:  4/22/1988  Upload Date: 7/10/2015 3:00:52 PM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 9629(MP15DC) CR 9532(SW1500) CR 7551(GP10) CR 7548(GP10)
Views:  619   Comments: 0
Down the low track
Title:  Down the low track
Description:  The junction at the west end of Rockville bridge was a classic example of PRR grade separation, with tracks on a couple of levels. This one was a good way to "sneak in" a train from the west, on this track that dipped under the west end of the bridge, and avoided some of the conflict that occurred with other simultaneous moves. A new C40-8W leads this train into Enola. Looks like a U23B is the trailing unit.
Photo Date:  6/16/1990  Upload Date: 1/13/2016 4:14:31 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6080(C40-8W)
Views:  223   Comments: 1
Coal at CP Day
Title:  Coal at CP Day
Description:  At the east end of Enola, trains went down the Port Road Branch, which connected to the Northeast Corridor at Perryville MD. At one time, when the PRR owned that line, it was a busy piece of railroad, and the stomping ground of GG 1s. Now its SD40-2s, such as this one with a 102 car PPLX coal train.
Photo Date:  6/16/1990  Upload Date: 1/13/2016 4:19:19 AM
Location:  Lemoyne, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6331(SD40) CR 8052(GP38-2) CR 3385(GP40-2)
Views:  446   Comments: 0
Hump power turned loose
Title:  Hump power turned loose
Description:  Conrail at that time used GP 10/SW 1500 sets to work the west end of the yard. A pair of them is seen here entering the yard after coming over from Harrisburg with a long cut of local cars to be sorted. These sets didnt get out much; typical transfer power was GP 10s or GP 8s, which were still around in some numbers.
Photo Date:  6/16/1990  Upload Date: 1/13/2016 4:23:12 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 7550(GP10) CR 9522(SW1500) CR 7555(GP10)
Views:  578   Comments: 1
Arriving at Enola
Title:  Arriving at Enola
Description:  An eastbound comes off the Pittsburgh Line and into Enola yard with 107 cars behind a B36-7 and SD 50.
Photo Date:  7/14/1991  Upload Date: 3/2/2015 2:05:29 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5005(B36-7) CR 6730(SD50)
Views:  315   Comments: 0
BUEN and light power
Title:  BUEN and light power
Description:  A set of light power B36-7's rolls out of Enola as 89 car BUEN comes in at left.
Photo Date:  7/14/1991  Upload Date: 3/3/2015 3:39:24 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 5024(B36-7) CR 7704(GP38) CR 5064(B40-8) CR 5033(B36-7) CR 5016(B36-7)
Views:  754   Comments: 1
Coal loads
Title:  Coal loads
Description:  Coal trains were staged at Enola. Heres an eastbound coming in from Altoona.
Photo Date:  7/14/1991  Upload Date: 3/3/2015 3:43:10 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6048(C40-8) CR 6429(SD40-2)
Views:  326   Comments: 0
Hump set
Title:  Hump set
Description:  Conrail typicall used SD38s or U23C's for hump power due to their moderate horsepower that was good for working slow speed without burning up the motors. Most were mated witih MT 6 slugs, cut down from a variety of Alcos. For some reason, the Enola hump power today mates an SW 1500 with the U23C, a little different.
Photo Date:  7/14/1991  Upload Date: 3/2/2015 2:10:45 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6903(U23C) CR 9533(SW1500)
Views:  279   Comments: 0
Pulling em out
Title:  Pulling em out
Description:  The yard power pulls out a cut to be switched. Thats I 81 overhead; Im on the famous Iron Bridge at the west yard throat at Enola.
Photo Date:  7/14/1991  Upload Date: 3/3/2015 3:46:27 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6903(U23C) CR 9533(SW1500)
Views:  256   Comments: 0


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