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CONRAIL LOCOMOTIVES... ANY STILL AROUND?????????

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CONRAIL LOCOMOTIVES... ANY STILL AROUND?????????
Posted by peterjenkinson1956 on Thursday, June 18, 2009 6:58 PM
could anyone tell me if there are still conrail locomotives travelling around the railroads....  have they all been repainted...  i read on another forum that there are non left with the conrail blue and white color scheme
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Posted by Bryan Jones on Friday, June 19, 2009 5:09 AM

CSX and NS both still operate locomotives painted for Conrail, though these units have been renumbered so they are not "pure" Conrail.

 

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Posted by fredswain on Friday, June 19, 2009 8:44 AM

I've seen a couple of them come through Houston this year. Of course I'm not always by tracks and can't be by all of the lines at the same time so there have probably been several through here. They are definitely still around. Last year I saw a Sante Fe (blue and yellow) GP-38 with no visible renumbering switching a short local that had 2 green and while Burlington Northern cabooses (cabeese?) on it. One at each end. That's got to be a rare sight!

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Posted by trainfan1221 on Friday, June 19, 2009 3:54 PM

They're still around, a little rare to find these days but they are definitely out there.

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Posted by henry6 on Friday, June 19, 2009 4:10 PM

There've been about a dozen in and out of Binghamton,NY over the past two weeks...even one GP35 doing local duties.

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Posted by peterjenkinson1956 on Friday, June 19, 2009 10:11 PM

 

thanks for the replys....   i have quite a few ho scale conrail locos    i like to keep my model railroad upto date...  i had read somewhere that all the conrail locos had been repainted....  it good to see that some of the old conrail locos are still around.... 
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Posted by nedthomas on Saturday, June 20, 2009 11:16 AM

Ckeck out this link      http://www.nsdash9.com/

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Posted by scottychaos on Saturday, June 20, 2009 3:44 PM

 Yes, there are still quite a few locos running around in CR blue..

hard to say how many exactly, but I would guess several hundred at least.. 

 

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There've been about a dozen in and out of Binghamton,NY over the past two weeks...even one GP35 doing local duties.

 

 
Sorry..cant be a GP35..Conrail retired all their GP35's in the mid to late 1980's..no CR GP35's made it to CSX or NS..you must have seen a GP38-2 or a GP40-2..quite a few of those still around.

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Posted by thayer north sub on Sunday, June 21, 2009 7:40 PM

Saw one yesterday in Springfield,Mo coming up from Memphis,Tn. Looked to be GE-U-boat still in blue.    Brian  Thayer North Sub.

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Posted by ndbprr on Monday, June 22, 2009 8:26 AM

 

I suggest because I don;t know that the engines owned by NS will be painted as quickly as possible.  They have a propensity for destroying any reference to merged in roads as quickly as they can.  They are the Borg of railroads,  "Resistance is futile.  You will be assimilated".
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Posted by rstaller on Monday, June 22, 2009 4:15 PM

Check out The Waterlevel Route, on the North coast of Ohio, they're still here running the rails, albeit patched for NS and CSX, but still CR blue.  R. Staller

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Posted by choochoobuff on Monday, June 22, 2009 9:04 PM

Not uncommon to see them here in West Cental Ohio on the Ex NYC, PC,Conrail,currently NS.

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Posted by ValleyX on Monday, June 22, 2009 9:14 PM
ndbprr

 

I suggest because I don;t know that the engines owned by NS will be painted as quickly as possible.  They have a propensity for destroying any reference to merged in roads as quickly as they can.  They are the Borg of railroads,  "Resistance is futile.  You will be assimilated".
It's ten years now and there's still several around. Word is that they want to have them all repainted by the end of the year. I sure don't recall seeing any NKP or Wabash units in those colors even four or five years after the merger. Some of them did start to resurface, yeah, that's it, after the N&W paint started wearing off.
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Posted by cpbloom on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:17 AM

nedthomas

Ckeck out this link      http://www.nsdash9.com/

 

 

I notice NS has retired all the B36-7s, C39-8s, B40-8s, C30-7As, C40-8s, and C32-8s but the GP40-2s and SD40-2s which are older, live on.


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Posted by carnej1 on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 11:22 AM

cpbloom

nedthomas

Ckeck out this link      http://www.nsdash9.com/

 

 

I notice NS has retired all the B36-7s, C39-8s, B40-8s, C30-7As, C40-8s, and C32-8s but the GP40-2s and SD40-2s which are older, live on.


There are a quite a few 4000 HP Six Axle GE's (Dash 8 and Dash 9) that are stored not retired, many may be put back into service as the economy recovers.....

 the -2s EMD are far better suited for local and yard work then the GE's were..

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Posted by cpbloom on Friday, June 26, 2009 4:58 AM

carnej1

cpbloom

nedthomas

Ckeck out this link      http://www.nsdash9.com/

 

 

I notice NS has retired all the B36-7s, C39-8s, B40-8s, C30-7As, C40-8s, and C32-8s but the GP40-2s and SD40-2s which are older, live on.


There are a quite a few 4000 HP Six Axle GE's (Dash 8 and Dash 9) that are stored not retired, many may be put back into service as the economy recovers.....

 the -2s EMD are far better suited for local and yard work then the GE's were..

 

 

I remember when I first saw the B36-7s in 83-84 pulling intermodals that were usually worked by GP40-2s.

Can't recall ever seeing them (B36-7) do anything else.

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Posted by fredswain on Monday, June 29, 2009 11:46 AM

I saw Conrail Dash 8-40CW last night in Houston. NS #8399

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Posted by adrianspeeder on Sunday, July 12, 2009 7:47 PM

I saw a flash of blue runnin south on the main through delaware south of frederica right before I left.  Sad I wasn't able to turn around to chase it down.

 

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Monday, July 13, 2009 10:17 AM

I just got my pictures back from July 4 (I still shoot film) and it included NS 6743 at Blue Island yard on the IHB, still in Conrail blue.

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Posted by KCC on Monday, July 13, 2009 6:27 PM

I saw one coupled with a NS on a bridge outside Greenville, TN, Jan 08 while on vacation. Nothing since.   KCC  

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Posted by LNER4472 on Monday, July 13, 2009 10:10 PM

I'm fairly sure this isn't what you had in mind, but last I knew, the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania was displaying ex-PRR GP30 2233 in Conrail blue paint!  I suspect that part of the motivation for this was because the 2233 looks downright austere and boring in completely authentic PRR paint, which was little more than a black dip job with small keystone PRR decals applied.  That's what the loco wore when it was donated by the family of its late owner, Richard Sanders of Lewisburg, Pa., several years ago.

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Posted by Awesome! on Thursday, July 23, 2009 9:23 PM

CONRAIL Locomotives are still there!

 

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Posted by bubbajustin on Sunday, July 26, 2009 8:40 PM

If you ever want to see any ex-Conrail units, Come to Lafayette IN. OODLES of them!

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Posted by rdgk1se3019 on Tuesday, August 4, 2009 3:41 PM

 I still see them come thru Reading PA alot.....just this past Saturday I saw about 4 on 3 different trains......mainly SD40-2`s

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Posted by Awesome! on Wednesday, August 5, 2009 8:47 PM

IF you want more information on Conrail status check this weblinks.

http://thecrhs.org/

http://crcyc.railfan.net/

 http://www.trainweb.org/crts/

http://www.conrail1285.com/

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Posted by GraniteRailroader on Tuesday, September 8, 2009 4:27 PM
We have a few ex-CR 6 axles at work. only "new" paint on them is the former leaser's initials.

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Posted by fafnir242 on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 11:17 AM
I saw an SD60I a couple of weeks ago that was still in Conrail blue trailing on an NS freight.  Leading was a Catfish....
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Posted by Awesome! on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 10:08 PM

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Posted by Mario_v on Monday, September 14, 2009 2:35 PM

And please don't forget that some of former CR units have migrated to Brazil (also some ex SP, UP and BN units too). Of course gauges there are different, and I've seen some in the broad - 1600 mm gauge - and also metre gauge,with some Co' Co's conveted to Do Do's, ffor example by Vale.

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Posted by jkroft on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 9:01 PM

I just saw a CR SD-40-2 coupled to three other 40s heading up to Waycross on the Florida/Georgia border.  It was great to catch one in CR livery let alone the fact that the entire loco consist was made up of four SD-40-2s and nothing else.  CSX runs more older locos than NS does down here...  I've seen quite a few Dash-8s in CR.  By the way, I never noticed that CR had cab headlights on there 8-40-CWs (as well as several other safety-cab models)...  I thought NS was the only one who ordered them that way.  Why have a cab headlight vice a nose headlight?  (besides adding frustration to NS modelers)

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