Reading in the Conrail Era Volume 1: 1976-1982 from Morning Sun Books is the first in a series which highlights how notable Reading Co. locations were transformed under Conrail. Volume 1 begins with a sampling of the final year of the Reading as an independent company and continues with a look at the first seven years of the railroad as an important component of the new Conrail system. Morning Sun Books Inc see the multi-color motive power of early Conrail gradually transforming into CR dress blue with more variety provided by the diesels of the Delaware & Hudson, whose trackage rights over the Reading continued into the Conrail era.