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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 2, 2004 11:35 PM
I'll miss CR good and bad...

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 2, 2004 5:41 PM
Like ok....What ever.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 1, 2004 7:48 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by 5penniesworth

Speaking of Conrail, theres a pretty good 2 and a half pages in the latest issue (July) that talks about NS and CSX working together on shared assets of Conrail. Quite interesting.

But I agree, with everyone else. What happened to Conrail should have never happened.


I was just reading that article yesterday.

Apparently things are running much more efficiently now.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 1, 2004 6:51 PM
Speaking of Conrail, theres a pretty good 2 and a half pages in the latest issue (July) that talks about NS and CSX working together on shared assets of Conrail. Quite interesting.

But I agree, with everyone else. What happened to Conrail should have never happened.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 1, 2004 6:48 PM
Not to break up the party folks but conrail was a major part of this countrys past history.
I remember the past,and to this day I will never forget.
Conrail meant alot to me ingeneral, because Im from the east.
I must agree that Conrail did what it did to try to keep the vast past alive and well to this day.
I will always remember the great eastern name....."CONRAIL".
The breakup of Conrail was a bad one I sapose it had to be done.
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Posted by tree68 on Tuesday, June 1, 2004 6:37 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by eolafan

They must have plenty of gallons of black paint over at NS and grey at CSX...otherwise they would have left a perfectly good railroad to make money and move freight with the best of them.


There you go - Conrail was making money - no better reason to take it over....

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Posted by eolafan on Tuesday, June 1, 2004 5:41 PM
They must have plenty of gallons of black paint over at NS and grey at CSX...otherwise they would have left a perfectly good railroad to make money and move freight with the best of them.
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Posted by Willy2 on Tuesday, June 1, 2004 5:35 PM
It shouldn't have happened. I think Conrail was a neat railroad and I liked their blue paint scheme a lot.

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Posted by JoeKoh on Tuesday, June 1, 2004 4:16 PM
As csx and NS have proven bigger is not always better.
stay safe
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 1, 2004 3:47 PM
And NS wants to repaint all of the ex-conrails *sigh*...
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Posted by espeefoamer on Tuesday, June 1, 2004 3:25 PM
That should never have happened.[:(]
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June 1...
Posted by Mikeygaw on Tuesday, June 1, 2004 3:09 PM
a date any railfan should recognize.

It has now been five years since the break up of Conrail. [:(]
Conrail Forever!

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