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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 9950
Title:  Penn Central 9950
Description:  A rebuilt ALCO RS3 in Baltimore in September 1976.
Photo Date:  9/11/1976  Upload Date: 8/26/2013 9:18:25 PM
Location:  Baltimore, MD
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  PC 9950(RS3M)
Views:  784   Comments: 0
Penn Central 8558
Title:  Penn Central 8558
Description:  An EMD SW1 in Wilmington, DE, in September 1976. Photographed from the Amtrak Montrealer.
Photo Date:  9/11/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 10:07:35 AM
Location:  Wilmington, DE
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  PC 8558(SW1)
Views:  399   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4878
Title:  Penn Central 4878
Description:  A PC GG1 on a clocker to Philadelphia at Newark in September 1976.
Photo Date:  9/15/1976  Upload Date: 8/26/2013 9:20:42 PM
Location:  Newark Penn Station, NJ
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  PC 4878(GG1)
Views:  202   Comments: 0
Penn Central 2334
Title:  Penn Central 2334
Description:  More evidence of Conrail, a PC EMD GP35 heads a freight train on the old Reading at Fairless Junction in October 1976. Photographed from the back of the Conrail Crusader.
Photo Date:  10/21/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 8:18:35 AM
Location:  Fairless Junction, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PC 2334(GP35)
Views:  169   Comments: 0
Penn Central 9915
Title:  Penn Central 9915
Description:  This ALCO RS1 spent a!lot of the 1970s in Newark, NJ, and I saw it regularly from the Crusader. Heres a photo from December 31, 1976.
Photo Date:  12/31/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 7:57:58 PM
Location:  Newark, NJ
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PC 9915(RS1)
Views:  204   Comments: 0
Penn Central 6103
Title:  Penn Central 6103
Description:  More evidence of Conrail, a PC SD40 at the old Reading yard in Rutherford, PA, in January 1977.
Photo Date:  1/8/1977  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 7:54:35 PM
Location:  Rutherford, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PC 6103(SD40)
Views:  284   Comments: 0
Penn Central 5874
Title:  Penn Central 5874
Description:  A cold, cloudy day at Enola Yard in January 1977.
Photo Date:  1/15/1977  Upload Date: 8/24/2013 11:48:13 AM
Location:  Enola, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PC 5874(GP7)
Views:  378   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:  291   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:  247   Comments: 0
Penn Central 7028
Title:  Penn Central 7028
Description:  An ex-PRR EMD GP9 on the Rockville Bridge in February 1977.
Photo Date:  2/12/1977  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 4:43:32 PM
Location:  Rockville, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PC 7028(GP9)
Views:  214   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4976
Title:  Penn Central 4976
Description:  In the line of very dead locomotives, waiting to be scrapped, an EP5 in February 1977.
Photo Date:  2/19/1977  Upload Date: 8/24/2013 4:06:18 PM
Location:  Harrisburg, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PC 4976(E40)
Views:  289   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4211
Title:  Penn Central 4211
Description:  In post-Amtrak Penn Central days I seldom saw E units in the east (other than in Boston and North Jersey commuter service and I only visited Boston once). I was fascinated when they came east in the early days of Conrail but quickly they went into storage. Here are some in stnrage at Harrisburg in February 1977.
Photo Date:  2/19/1977  Upload Date: 8/24/2013 4:09:11 PM
Location:  Harrisburg, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PC 4211(E7A)
Views:  359   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4425
Title:  Penn Central 4425
Description:  A year into Conrail and a PC-liveried GE E44 leads a freight on the High Line (the freight by-pass of 30th Street Station) in March 1977.
Photo Date:  3/15/1977  Upload Date: 8/24/2013 7:26:51 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  PC 4425(E44) CR 4411(E44)
Views:  373   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4425
Title:  Penn Central 4425
Description:  A year into Conrail and a PC-liveried GE E44 leads a freight on the High Line (the freight by-pass of 30th Street Station) in March 1977.
Photo Date:  3/15/1977  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 6:28:15 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  PC 4425(E44)
Views:  210   Comments: 0
PC 4458
Title:  PC 4458
Description:  A set of GE E44s head an eastbound freight at Ardmore in April 1977.
Photo Date:  4/20/1977  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 5:51:11 PM
Location:  Ardmore, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PC 4458(E44)
Views:  164   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:  241   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4403
Title:  Penn Central 4403
Description:  A helper engine returning to Philadelphia through Narberth on May 9, 1977.
Photo Date:  5/9/1977  Upload Date: 8/24/2013 7:25:14 PM
Location:  Narberth, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  PC 4403(E44)
Views:  249   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4436 and 4437
Title:  Penn Central 4436 and 4437
Description:  Two GE E44s bring a freight north on the High Line on May 9, 1977.
Photo Date:  5/9/1977  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 6:26:41 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  PC 4436(E44) PC 4437(E44)
Views:  270   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4201
Title:  Penn Central 4201
Description:  This locomotive has been restored as PRR 5901 but is shown in PC livery (with the addition of a Pennsy keystone cab side) at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in May 1977.
Photo Date:  5/14/1977  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 6:19:35 PM
Location:  Strasburg, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PC 4201(E7A)
Views:  703   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4400
Title:  Penn Central 4400
Description:  Two GE E44 helpers head east at Merion Station in June 1977.
Photo Date:  6/15/1977  Upload Date: 8/24/2013 9:53:16 AM
Location:  Merion Station, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PC 4400(E44)
Views:  319   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4448
Title:  Penn Central 4448
Description:  On an eastbound freight at Ardmore, PA, June 1977.
Photo Date:  6/15/1977  Upload Date: 8/24/2013 7:28:30 PM
Location:  Ardmore, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PC 4448(E44)
Views:  244   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4454
Title:  Penn Central 4454
Description:  A GE E-44 set of helpers runs through Merion when freight still operated on the old PRR mainline, June 1977.
Photo Date:  6/15/1977  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 4:34:10 PM
Location:  Merion Station, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  PC 4454(E44)
Views:  133   Comments: 0
Penn Central 9850
Title:  Penn Central 9850
Description:  An ALCO S2 (ex-NH 0600) at Croxton Yard in August 1977.
Photo Date:  8/13/1977  Upload Date: 8/24/2013 9:41:12 AM
Location:  Croxton, NJ
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PC 9850(S2)
Views:  324   Comments: 0
Penn Central 2952
Title:  Penn Central 2952
Description:  A GE U33B leads an eastbound freight at Abrams Yard in October 1977. It was still exciting to find PC locomotives in a Reading yard, even eighteen months after Conrail.
Photo Date:  10/12/1977  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 8:31:15 AM
Location:  Upper Merion, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  PC 2952(U33B)
Views:  186   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4403
Title:  Penn Central 4403
Description:  In the early days of Conrail, two GE E44s bring a freight through Overbrook in November 1977.
Photo Date:  11/15/1977  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 6:22:37 PM
Location:  Overbrook, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  PC 4403(E44)
Views:  205   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4238
Title:  Penn Central 4238
Description:  An EMD E7A in the storage line at Altoona on April 8, 1978.
Photo Date:  4/8/1978  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 4:38:05 PM
Location:  Altoona, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PC 4238(E7A)
Views:  260   Comments: 0
Penn Central 2855
Title:  Penn Central 2855
Description:  In storage at Altoona on April 8, 1978.
Photo Date:  4/8/1978  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 6:30:32 PM
Location:  Altoona, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  PC 2855(U30B)
Views:  245   Comments: 0
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:  379   Comments: 0
Penn Central 6126
Title:  Penn Central 6126
Description:  A little later, another PC EMD SD45 heads another freight train through Port Kennedy in August 1976.
Photo Date:  8/15/1978  Upload Date: 8/25/2013 5:47:52 PM
Location:  Port Kennedy, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PC 6126(SD45)
Views:  316   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4756
Title:  Penn Central 4756
Description:  An ex-PRR B1 at the State Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania at Strasburg in October 1980.
Photo Date:  10/11/1980  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 8:01:30 PM
Location:  Strasburg, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PC 4756(Boxcab)
Views:  276   Comments: 0

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