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3/6/2025
 
 
 
 
 
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RF&P 7
Title:  RF&P 7
Description:  A friend of mine worked for Penn Central and then Amtrak and in April 1976 he was able to get us access to Potomac Yard and this photo is taken from the yard tower there.
Photo Date:  4/10/1976  Upload Date: 9/15/2013 6:30:40 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  RFP 7(SW1500) PC 2216(GP30) PC 2202(GP30)
Views:  933   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:  674   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:  382   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:  317   Comments: 0
RF&P 8 and C
Title:  RF&P 8 and C
Description:  Another photograph from the yard tower at Potomac Yard in April 1976.
Photo Date:  4/10/1976  Upload Date: 9/15/2013 6:34:24 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  RFP 8(SW1500) RFP C(Yard Slug) PC 2231(GP30) PC 2216(GP30) RFP 3(SW1500)
Views:  1249   Comments: 2
Penn Central 2218
Title:  Penn Central 2218
Description:  An EMD GP30 in Baltimore, MD, in August 1978.
Photo Date:  8/15/1978  Upload Date: 8/25/2013 5:45:31 PM
Location:  Baltimore, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PC 2218(GP30)
Views:  440   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:  358   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:  505   Comments: 0
Penn Central 2235
Title:  Penn Central 2235
Description:  One of my favorite diesel locomotives were the EMD GP30s because they just looked different. Heres one in South Philadelphia in March 1976.
Photo Date:  3/13/1976  Upload Date: 8/24/2013 9:44:33 AM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PC 2235(GP30)
Views:  414   Comments: 0
Penn Central 2239
Title:  Penn Central 2239
Description:  An EMD GP30 at South Philadelphia Yard in March 1976.
Photo Date:  3/13/1976  Upload Date: 8/24/2013 11:44:21 AM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PC 2239(GP30)
Views:  352   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:  418   Comments: 0
Penn Central 2241
Title:  Penn Central 2241
Description:  Almost a year after Conrail, a Penn Central EMD GP30 on a freight train in Bethlehem, PA, February 1977.
Photo Date:  2/12/1977  Upload Date: 8/24/2013 9:55:09 AM
Location:  Bethlehem, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  PC 2241(GP30)
Views:  342   Comments: 0
Penn Central 2243
Title:  Penn Central 2243
Description:  An EMD GP30 at the ex-Reading Abrams Yard in February 1977.
Photo Date:  2/12/1977  Upload Date: 8/24/2013 11:42:52 AM
Location:  Upper Merion, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PC 2243(GP30) PC 2929(U33B)
Views:  331   Comments: 0
Lehigh Valley 313
Title:  Lehigh Valley 313
Description:  Early Conrail: A LV EMD GP38 and a PC EMD GP30 on the ex-Reading mainline at Abrams Yard in August 1976.
Photo Date:  8/11/1976  Upload Date: 8/28/2013 7:55:38 PM
Location:  Upper Merion, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  LV 313(GP38AC) PC 2244(GP30)
Views:  807   Comments: 0
Conrail 2196
Title:  Conrail 2196
Description:  An ex-Penn Central EMD GP30 on the old Reading line at Abrams Yard in September 1978.
Photo Date:  9/20/1978  Upload Date: 9/1/2013 8:25:23 AM
Location:  Upper Merion, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 2196(GP30) PC 2244(GP30)
Views:  657   Comments: 0
Penn Central 2247
Title:  Penn Central 2247
Description:  Ahead an eastbound Conrail freight at Ardmore, PA, on May 9, 1977.
Photo Date:  5/9/1977  Upload Date: 8/24/2013 11:41:16 AM
Location:  Ardmore, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PC 2247(GP30)
Views:  306   Comments: 0


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