Photo by Pat Yough. Harmon shop. (2), Afternoon at Iona Island on 10/24/98. It lists many locomotives that never actually ran on Conrail or never were in service on April 1, 1976. This created a surplus of then When I was in Horicon, Wis., to photograph the unveiling of the Athearn Trains 60th anniversary boxcar in July 2007, I noticed several LTEX GP15-1s in the yard. through failed mergers and other attempts that were unsuccessful. of Chris McClellan had argued that more than 15,575 route miles needed immediately cut, excluding EL's lines (3,000 miles). As the strain of cash shortfalls tightened deferred maintenance became the norm with large sections of its network reduced to $3.99. In the mid-1990s, the road was split between Norfolk Southern and CSX Transportation; the two officially acquired their respective halves on June 1, 1999. It continued to lose roughly $1 million a day, just like Penn Central. Northeast US with an operating steam generator. How many Amtrak cars do you need for a prototypical train? Line as late as 1991. nightmares. Most older locomotive classes were sold or scrapped. Wes Barris's SteamLocomotive.com is simply the best web resource on the study of steam locomotives. Sponsored. Steel Train Symbols. The GP38 kept that number when it was shipped north to the MNN. BL06 (4), Afternoon at Iona Island on 10/24/98. Conrail Master Freight Schedule List Updated 10/09/99. Their idea was to have the only two profitable systems in the Mid-Atlantic region acquire the aforementioned bankrupts which would provide the port with three railroads. installed to replace the steam generator. Alumni include Andrew Carnegie. Abbreviations: ALCO B = American Locomotive Co - Brooks Works ALCO M = Montreal Locomotive Works . Ultimately, Conrail shed "only" a few thousands miles when it launched on April 1st. engineers liked the fast acceleration out of a station, engines on branch line shuttle trains. American-Rails.com collection. They can be reviewed in either a PDF or JPEG format. The Southern was a disciplined, well-oiled machine. cars were disposed of or sold off through the 1980's as new equipment came on line. . BY OTTO VONDRAK. The E-10's The 1,800 hp engine was replaced with a A bill was introduced during the summer of 1973 to remedy the catastrophe. engine change at North White Plains and Harmon). The Penn Central Transportation Company had been created on February 1, 1968 as the merger of industry giants Pennsylvania and New York Central. Once again, however, the ICC declined the appeals. 4800-series coaches I might look at putting one of these locomotives on my roster. Don't forget that.'". fleet would be retired. Anytime this was attempted stiff local opposition resulted while the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) almost always refused the requests. CR FORMER NUMBER NUMBERS MODEL BUILDER OWNER(S) OF UNITS 1639-1650 F7A EMD PC (NYC) 3 . It is not affiliated with, sponsored All SD60Is. All rights reserved. Many were pulled up in the 1970's and 1980's although others were removed long before that. RETIRED they lack dynamic braking, the F-10s are restricted to 79 mph. =================================, PRSL - Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines. How To Prototype Railroads Conrail diesel locomotive graduates, In this special installment of Trackside Finds, Cody Grivno introduces you to nine former Conrail units that found new homes. Dual mode FL9AC (GWWR). Conrail (1 July 1985) Conrail locomotive summary (one-page pdf) (Ted Grumbine collection) CN (31 December 1990) Canadian National locomotive roster (2-page pdf) (Ted Grumbine collection) GTW (30 June 1992) Grand Trunk Western locomotive roster (seven-page pdf) (Ted Grumbine collection) heritage painted locomotives. Conrail Special Paint -- A listing of locomotives that carried special paint schemes. By then, every other major railroad from New Jersey to Buffalo had filed for reorganization including the Lehigh Valley, Reading, and Central Railroad of New Jersey. Wade Massie photo. They have only four wheels (two axels) and 600 Conrail retired its GP10 fleet throughout the 1990s. Reproduction or redistribution in any form without express written permission is prohibited. retained the same numbers as they passed hands from Penn Central to Conrail, (02), An autumnal day on the B&A10/8/93. American Locomotive Company. Copyright (c) 1998-new Date().getFullYear()>2010&&document.write(new Date().getFullYear()); Robert S. Waller. Its start date was set for April 1, 1976. With permission from Gary Stuebben. Understanding how real railroads use bridges is important to realistically modeling them. for its Connecticut services. with your friends: Although not an These locomotives carry a paint scheme The Conrail Office Car Special (OCS) Miscellaneous Conrail Photos. By the end of 1981 Conrail was finally in the black and turning a profit for the first time since the early days of Penn Central in 1968, over thirteen years earlier! Some of the last new locomotives Conrail acquired included its fleet of SD80MAC's. Here, a duo leads autoracks westbound at Emsworth, Pennsylvania July 29, 1997. NSDash9.com on facebook! After Conrail 4020, Conrail 4021, and Conrail 4022, the Conrail theater car had to be one of the most photographed cars on the Conrail special equipment roster. Alas, the issues proved far more complex than any of them realized. NS: Number of units currently active Subscribers, sign in to access exclusive content. To bolster this effort, one plan called for the CNJ, Reading, LV, and L&HR to be combined into MARC, the Mid-Atlantic Railroad. ACMU's (Air-Conditioned Multiple Unit) were built for the Central in 1956. Metro-North M-7 cars use a similar control. Soon, the cars received paint similar to in Canada. Conrail in trade for some former PRR GP35's. club cars (MN-1, and -2). Thanks to the following people for contributing updates: Joseph Belote, R. Camp, Bob Carper, Dave Honan, John Komanesky, J. Alex Lang and "Widecab". Diesel Roster. See The Enduring FL9. After Kansas City Southern purchased the GWWR in 1997, the GP38 became part of the Helm Financial Corp. lease fleet. Today, theFriendly Service Routeis gone in the Midwest. 2012. cars. with a 1,200 hp EMD prime mover. switching moves. In Conrail Motive Power Review: 1986-1991, author Paul K. Withers notes that this unit and other GP38-2s were withdrawn from Conrail by lessor (EMD) on date shown as retirement date and leased to others. EMDX 807 later became GATX Rail Locomotive Group (GMTX) 2233. F-10s. After RailAmerica sold the MNN in August 2000, the 3810 was reassigned to the Mackenzie Northern Ry. One of the leaders of this group was Jim McClellan who had also helped create Amtrak. Some had been repainted, others were waiting their turn in the paint booth. All rights reserved by original owner of image. also given high marks by the leading industry magazine, Trains from I remember riding an early Conrail/MTA oasis of luxury of a time past in a desert of decay. Locomotives were arranged alphabetically by model type. with the name adjacent to the right from the F (front), cab door. and work It also aided in restricting the ICC from meddling in the road's affairs. From RailroadfanWiki. these beasts in 1981, as did the State of Connecticut. were intended for use as three (3) unit sets, so they were numbered: 50A51 etc. The poorly planned and executed union resulted in bedlam right from the start. The 2167 was painted in BNSFs Heritage I scheme on April 19, 1998. they assumed control of the NJ. These engines were single units, from either end. Ultimately, though, Moore was too overbearing for the job and fired. This guide provides a brief overview of the currently active short line freight railroads (Class III) operating in the state of New York. GP15 1675 . Fri May 09, 2014 9:18 pm. The second-largest system in the region, the Erie Lackawanna, filed bankruptcy as a result. I love Conrail memorabilia. On some cars, the EL/NJDOT By the mid-1980's, Conrail had become its own railroad instead the previous pastiche. The The two Brookville engines roam the Harmon and Rated at 1,800 h.p., they can In time, the lexan windows turned opaque Needless to say, The Dash-7 and Dash-8 models from GE also arrived in large numbers. The situation had been severely compounded by Mother Nature when Hurricane Agnes dumped an ocean of rain on the Northeast during June of 1972. This page briefly highlights the currently active short line railroads (Class 3) operating in the state of Texas. The locomotive retained that number on successor Gateway Western Ry. at the Peducca Shops in the 1970s and had a head end power unit Pullman-Standard ACMU (1956) The E-10's were used as Terminal The New York Central purchased a fleet of 19 RDC's, which they called These cars more or less Unit # Notes Model Serial # Pictures : CR 2168: Ex-RDG 5520: GP30 survived to be handed over to NJ Transit Rail in 1983. Conrail unit still in blue, Here, a duo leads autoracks westbound at Emsworth, Pennsylvania July 29, 1997. interesting P32AC-DM (1995). When Metro-North expanded service on the Danbury branch to include more direct June 18, 2021. R. Toth. Industrial operate off of 600v third-rail, or off its own diesel generator. A car of similar design would find its way They were In the wake of EL's request, Congress passed the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act, or 4-R Act, on January 28, 1976 that included approval of theFinal System Plan, creating Conrail and extending USRA's existence to oversee the railroad. The unit kept that road number through its Conrail career. The coaches sat on the dead line in Croton for a year until they were sold totally controlled with an IEE 1473 network trainline, although Photo by Larry Johnson. electric operation was plagued with problems. The only reprieve in those days were the Bar Cars. and the former Illinois Central Gulf Total However, Don Strack rescued the data and transferred it over to his UtahRails.net site (another fine resource). The decade began with the SD50's and SD60's arriving. 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. The All written content, photos, and videos copyright American-Rails.com (unless otherwise noted). With center-door ADA access. A cast plaque was mounted Every once in a while, a blue locomotive with a can opener on the side would pass through town. time of original purchase the sets were not configured for M-N units are equipped for extended The trade name Conrail is a portmanteau based on the company's legal name. This was the period of predecessor locomotives along with newly purchased SD40-2's, GP38-2's, GP40-2's, and GP15-1's. Allen McClelland and His Virginian & Ohio. unique, as the cab-end only has one window for the engineer. 1624-1627 RPLA-81 On the New Holland Secondary, 5061-8262-6700 YPLA-25 at Dillerville Yard, Afternoon at Iona Island on 10/24/98. being retired. General Electric - B, C and U series. It continues to do business as an asset management and network services provider in three Shared Assets Areas that were excluded from the division of its . As the group pondered what to do with EL time ran out and one gigantic system emerged. Georgia Northeastern (GNRR) 7562 is another graduate of the GP10 rebuild program, coming out of the ICG shops in 1976. design to an order built for the Long Island Rail Road by Pullman-Standard. ICG later Conrail Special Paint -- A listing of locomotives that carried special paint schemes. currently in use. Conrail GP38 #7892 picks up a load from Shaw-Barton at the freight depot in downtown Coshocton, Ohio on April 13, 1983. The SD40 was retired in September 1994. The 1427 was sold to LTEX. Alas, in 2013 the site closed. I can recall them DieselSteamElectric The BN units kept their numbers after the railroad merged with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe in 1995. Thank you for the information. This required some body Join Today! door found only on M-N Genesis engines, Metro-North General Electric Built 1956-1960 for the New Haven Railroad. Loving notes when profits began to grow larger and larger some senior officers did not want to return the wage increases; "But Crane believed theworkershad saved Conrail by giving up the $200 million. When Conrail was formed in 1976, In 2006, Metro-North still had three F-10 units in service. Four of the new Genesis units are in New Haven twenty-year-old stainless steel coaches and club cars. Early models had a small After picking up the failed Penn Central, bankrupt Erie Lackawanna, and numerous other smaller systems it was able to finally turn a profit at the end of 1981, more than five years after its creation. For this survey, I'm not including the unique FL9 units built for New Haven. Morrison-Knudsen M-6 (1992). Condensed Conrail Locomotive Roster Updated 02/14/98. series, only two remain in standby service), four rebuilt AC units worked on the LIRR reserved by original owner of image. 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