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Michael DeSoi was born and raised in Philadelphia. He spent his "formative" years watching the Reading RR running down American Street. He started active railfanning in the summer of 1976, just in time for Big Blue.

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86' Stock Cars heading to Cross Brothers at Frankford Jct

Livestock Movements on ConrailMichael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA
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B&M (ex Conrail) GP-40 #3249 rests at Eastside Yard Date: April 8, 1984

EMD GP40Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1984
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BAR 78 (Leased by Conrail) gets some attention at Port Richmond. 5/19/1979

Foreign Power on ConrailMichael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1979
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Conrail snowplow, Reading, PA. 8/8/1978

Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosReading PASnow Removal Equipment1978
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Covered Hoppers at Port Richmond, Philadelphia

3-bay Covered HoppersMichael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1970s
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CR #2800 (with a GP-9B) leads an eastbound about to cross Wood Lane in Gladwyne, PA. March 25, 1979

EMD GP9GE B23-7Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail Photos1979
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CR 10 former EL Safety & training car, Elizabethport, NJ 10/14/1980

1980Elizabethport NJMichael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosTraining Cars
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CR 1612 leads a westbound through the station at Frankford Junction, Philadelphia, PA. 4/11/1985

EMD GP15-1Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1985
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CR 1627 is shifting some cars near Delaware & Pattison Aves. in Philadelphia, PA. 5/24/1987

EMD GP15-1Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1987
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CR 1687 & 1686 accelerate with a cut of cars at Croxton yard in Secacus, N.J. September 17, 1979

EMD GP15-1Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosSecaucus NJ1979
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CR 1695 leads an eastbound on the Delair bridge approach (The Woodwork) next to Lewis St. in Philadelphia, PA. March 2, 1985

EMD GP15-1Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1985
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CR 18571 on an eastbound on the "0" track at Water St & The NEC in Philadelphia, PA. March 9, 1980.

1980Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosN9 Class CaboosePhiladelphia PA
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CR 1887 brings up the rear of XM-6 eastbound into the yard at Port Reading, N.J. June 1978

Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosN4B Class CaboosePort Reading NJ1978
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CR 18874 (ex CNJ) brings up the rear of an eastbound going through the station at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, PA. May 15, 1979

Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosN4B Class CaboosePhiladelphia PA1979
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CR 1932 leads a westbound at the Front Street OHB in Philadelphia, PA. November 11, 1979

GE B23-7Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1979
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CR 1932 leads a westbound at the Front Street OHB in Philadelphia, PA. November 11, 1979

GE B23-7Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1979
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CR 1936 soaking up some winter rays at Greenwich yard. 2/15/1986

GE B23-7Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1986
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CR 1943, 9413, 9592, 7677 on a lite power move near Holmesburg Junction on Philadelphia, PA. July 7, 1985

EMD SW1001GE B23-7Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail Photos1985
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CR 1943, 9413, 9592, 7677 on a lite power move near Holmesburg Junction on Philadelphia, PA. July 7, 1985

EMD SW1001GE B23-7Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1985
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CR 1953 leads a westbound through the station and a dusting of snow at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, PA. February 8, 1986

GE B23-7Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1986
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CR 1957 pulls an eastbound local long hood forward through the passenger station at Frankford Junction, 5/79

GE B23-7Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1979
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CR 1966 leads an eastbound train on the Delair Bridge approach at Lewis St.

GE B23-7Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1985
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CR 1980 is NOT moving in Greenwich yard in Philadelphia, PA. 9/85

Conrail Special and Oddball Paint SchemesGE B23-7Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1985
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CR 1997 leads a westbound freight through the Campbell Hall, NY passenger station. 4/85

Campbell Hall NYGE B23-7Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail Photos1985
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CR 2017 leads a one car local at Solomon's Gap, PA. December 30, 1985

GE B23-7Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosSolomons Gap PA1985
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CR 2020 leads a train at Belmont in Philadelphia, PA. October 19, 1980

1980GE B23-7Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA
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CR 2074 in the yard at Allentown, Pa

Alco C420Allentown PAMichael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail Photos1970s
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CR 2074 spends a cold December 27, 1978 in the roundhouse in Bethlehem, PA.

Alco C420Bethlehem PAMichael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail Photos1978
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CR 2168 is the helper on a westbound at Frankford Junction, Philadelphia, PA. 5/17/1979

EMD GP30Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1979
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CR 2178 leads a northbound through Olney station in Philadelphia, PA. May 15, 1980

1980EMD GP30Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA
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CR 2180 on a westbound high & wide at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, PA. June 11, 1985

EMD GP30Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1985
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CR 2183 leads a westbound on the "0" track at Water Street in Philadelphia. 4/1/1979

EMD GP30Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1979
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CR 2198 at Frankford Jct Phildelphia, 4/84

EMD GP30Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1988
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CR 2227 leads three sisters east through Frankford Junction, 8/78

EMD GP30Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1978
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CR 2230 leads an eastbound on the Delair bridge approach (The Woodwork) next to Lewis St. in Philadelphia, PA. November 6, 1983

EMD GP30Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1983
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CR 2235 & 2195 on CARU at Frankford Jct, Philadelphia. 9/79

EMD GP30Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1979
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CR 2251 leads a southbound freight at Cheltenham Junction in Philadelphia. 3/13/1982

EMD GP35Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1982
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CR 2271 leads a westbound across the Lehigh Canal in Allentown, PA. April 15, 1984

Allentown PAEMD GP35Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail Photos1984
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CR 2286 leads a westbound shop extra across Wood Lane in Gladwyne, PA. March 18, 1979

EMD GP35Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail Photos1979
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CR 23166, 18807 and 23238 on the High Line next to 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, PA. Sometime in 1977

Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosN4B Class CabooseN8 Class CaboosePhiladelphia PA1977
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CR 23375, Greenwich Yard, Philadelphia, PA. January 4, 1981

Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosN8 Class CaboosePhiladelphia PA1981
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CR 2360 still shows its PRR Keystone westbound at Frankford Junction on 8/1/1979

EMD GP35Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1979
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CR 2391 leads a train out of the Port Richmond yard at "A St. in Philadelphia, Pa. May 10, 1979

EMD GP35Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1979
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CR 2397 awaits its next assignment in Port Richmond Philadelphia, PA. October 1977

EMD GP35Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1977
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CR 2496 at the ex Reading facility in Port Richmond (Lehigh Ave) in Philadelphia, PA.

Alco C424Michael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1978
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CR 269198, Greenwich Yard, Philadelphia, Pa, 3/30/1986

Class X72 and X72AMichael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1986
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CR 2719 gets a drink at Lehigh Ave. in Philadelphia, PA. May 30, 1979.

GE U23BMichael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail PhotosPhiladelphia PA1979
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CR 2777 sits under the coaling tower in Bethlehem, PA. November 18, 1980

1980Bethlehem PAGE U23BMichael DeSoi's Primarily Philadelphia Area Conrail Photos