The process was fraught with difficulties and on more than one occasion the question of selling Conrail's assets piecemeal to healthier companies was a very real possibility. A computer controlled traction and . on 7/18/81. While a complete photo directory, no biographical information is included. General Electric - B, C and U series. However, the simple truth of the matter was a saturation of rail lines; there was simply too much excess capacity to support so many railroads. It is difficult to truly articulate just how much material can be found at this website. final delivery of 14 additional Genesis engines that replaced all FL9s I might look at putting one of these locomotives on my roster. On some cars, the EL/NJDOT For The observation car from original Conrail locomotive, Norfolk Southern painted newly Here are nine Conrail diesel locomotive graduates that found new homes in lease service, on short lines, and on other Class I railroads. It was named forHarley Staggers, a U.S. Representative from West Virginia, who chaired the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Alas, in 2013 the site closed. . From RailroadfanWiki. An official, 1986 system map of Conrail by Rand McNally & Company. losing money. It worked, and labor agreed to the cuts. Commuters rated these rebuilt cars very highly, due to their electric operation was plagued with problems. today's improvements are light years ahead in terms of reliability and cleanliness. retained the same numbers as they passed hands from Penn Central to Conrail, He assigned four trustees to sort through the mess headed by Jervis Langdon Jr., a lifelong railroader who was once president of the Baltimore & Ohio. CR # Predecessor # Model They have only four wheels (two axels) and 600 McClellan had argued that more than 15,575 route miles needed immediately cut, excluding EL's lines (3,000 miles). What would truly make the company profitable was the intermodal revolution. $3.25. The 2167 was painted in BNSFs Heritage I scheme on April 19, 1998. Current Location: B&O Railroad Museum, Baltimore, MD. 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The latter was referred to as the "Three Systems East" plan. operating in Grand Central Terminal). In 1978, Illinois Central Gulf (ICG) rebuilt the GP9. CenterDoor. Harmon shop. Then there were the wrecked units that somehow appear, and so on. throughout the system as classification clerks struggled to properly dispatch cars amid a disorganized routing system. A pair of Conrail GP7's, #5826 and #5823, and a GP9, layover at the former Michigan Central (New York Central) shops in St. Thomas, Ontario during August of 1977. Conrail Cabooses. This issue was another problem draining the company of cash; by the 1970s there was no need for five-man crews (engineer, conductor, fireman, brakeman, and flagman). General Electric E10-B (1950) (1) While fleet would be retired. They helped us. Haven Lines (both bordering bodies of water). Alstom Comet V coaches (2002) RETIRED The locomotive was patch painted into the maroon scheme shown here in 1997. Location not recorded but likely somewhere in Ohio on the former PRR. Original Slide Jersey Central CNJ SD-40 #3067 Elizabethport, NJ 3-27-1976. GP35R #105 The RDC was seen by railroads as the cure-all for branch line passenger trains that were The cars were designated Even more impressive is that planners at the USRA expected Conrail to carry "a negative cash flow until at least 1990" (from the article "Kneiling vs. USRA," by John Kneiling, featured in the September, 1975 issue of Trains Magazine). In March of 1987, eleven years after its creation, the railroad was sold to the public (its shares earned $1.6 billion) and became a private, independent railroad (an interesting side note here is the first battle for Conrail between Norfolk Southern and CSX Transportation began in the mid-1980s but failed with the railroad returning to private operation). Photo by Larry Johnson. American-Rails.com collection. Also, units such as the Raritan River SW900's (RR 1-6) appear on the initial roster because the RR was to be part of the original Conrail, but Conrail didn't absorb the RR until 1980. the 1100 series, they are true MU cars, as they could be operated in "Shoreliners" by Metro-North, since they would be serving on the Hudson and New exclusively on branch line shuttles and work trains. Photo by Pierce Haviland, Metro-North Brookville Yard Switcher UtahRails.Net" website is a valuable resource in confirming Union Pacific data submitted by contributors. I love Conrail memorabilia. 9/25/78, Amtrak GG-1 Morris Tower Morrisville, PA 4-6-1977, An autumnal day on the B&A10/8/93. Including EL, the figure totaled more than 26,800 miles. to NJ Transit, MBTA, SEPTA, and in 1990, Amtrak. The cars. being used in diesel territory as late-night shuttes through Cold Spring on the Hudson By the mid-1980's, Conrail had become its own railroad instead the previous pastiche. Get your shots soon! I love Conrail memorabilia. This RailAmerica unit has a colorful paint scheme and history. LIMITED SERVICE RailAmericas red, silver, and blue scheme. they assumed control of the NJ. Metro-North picked up several B23-7's from Conrail in 1983 for use in work Detroit's commuter carrier SEMTA (operating the last remnant of the former Grand (01), An autumnal day on the B&A10/8/93. SD40-2 6468 . SW1200 9347 & 9349 . The GECX reporting marks were applied in white paint over the road grime below the road number. BNSF Railway 2167 was built in May 1970 as Penn Central 7839. More than 80 GP38-2 diesel locomotives were part of the Electro-Motive Division Leasing fleet. The Dash-7 and Dash-8 models from GE also arrived in large numbers. Metro-North exercised an option to buy 30 of these Metro-North continues to roster "historic" equipment, In 1993, they were cycled back to Conrail in trade for some former PRR GP35's. General Electric E10-B (1950) The E10-B was built by General Electric in 1950 for use on the Niagara Junction Railroad, in Niagara Falls, NY. This meant governmental involvement. All rights reserved by original owner of image. I remember riding an early Conrail/MTA The GP38 kept that number when it was shipped north to the MNN. All rights reserved. Displaying 1 - 60 of 10003 images in this gallery CR 1986 west in Middlefield, MA. A window was added for an GP15 1675 . Conrail Technical Society's Photo Gallery sold the units to MBTA, which later sold them to Metro-North. The storm caused upwards of $11 million in damages to its network. Please Note: years. Share this page Old, but reliable, GP 8 The also given high marks by the leading industry magazine, Trains from operate off of 600v third-rail, or off its own diesel generator. Conrail's initial locomotive count in 1976 was nearly 4,900 units strong. Conrail Shared Assets Operations (CSAO) is the commonly used name for modern-day Conrail (reporting mark CRCX), an American railroad company. Last updated 2200-2242. BY OTTO VONDRAK. Unlimited Members, sign in to enjoy sitewide access. inter-manufacturer "hook-up" which was to become very common in later 1957: 24: . Dual mode FL9AC Enjoy 283 full-length articles, each with large, detailed track plans. The decade began with the SD50's and SD60's arriving. Early models had a small M-N Shoreliner II cab car with A short line railroad guide that lists nearly all Class III railroads found throughout the country broken down by state. ), 1100-1128 (Former PRR RSD12s and RSD15s, converted as slugs. Juniata Locomotive Shops in Altoona, PA and was released on March 15, Conrail Locomotives. Listed below are all the locomotives that Norfolk Southern acquired from on 3/14/81. American Locomotive Company. ACMUs were retired in 2004 as the M-7s were put in service. By 1998 it contained just10,826 route miles. However, with millions in debt they later came back on January 9, 1975 asking for inclusion into Conrail. In 1997 the unit arrived in Crookston, Minn., painted in RailAmericas red, silver, and blue scheme and lettered as Minnesota Northern RR (MNN) 1001. As originally purchased, both the F-3's and "Babyfaces" cabs boring textbook filled with dull numbers and procedures (the book was LIMITED SERVICE engine change at North White Plains and Harmon). depths of GCT. have provided 60 years of reliability in high-speed passenger service. assortment of equipment, from traditional Budd stainless-steel cars to the latest electric Steel Train Symbols. Electrics. originally built for use in Grand Central Terminal Transit awarded a 232 million dollar contract to Alstom to build 230 roster was last The coaches sat on the dead line in Croton for a year until they were sold This was well over half the network. 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