Eastbound containers  Contributor's Pick!       
In the 80s it was not uncommon to see high priority trains behind a motley assortment of medium horsepower units. Conrail would routinely send out van trains with such power, as they did here with a set of 4 axle units, including two still painted for Penn Central. The millenium unit leads.
Date: 7/26/1983 Location: Bound Brook, NJ   Map Show Bound Brook on a rail map Views: 662 Collection Of:   Tom Beckett
Locomotives: CR 2000(B23-7) CR 8153(GP38-2) CR 7894(GP38) CR 7866(GP38)    Author:  Tom Beckett
Eastbound containers
Picture Categories: Action This picture is part of album:  Conrail on the CNJ, LV and Reading
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Name Type Comments Date
Steve Coraggio General Nice action shot 8/26/2017 9:30:31 AM
Richard Bischoff General Hopefully that "motley assortment" wasn't manned by a...wait for it..."Motley Crue." 8/2/2020 10:08:12 PM

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