Conrail reached merger day with 235 locomotives of this class still on the roster, presumably all factory built since I never heard of any Conrail Dash 2 rebuild program for GP38's.
But they bought 115 (or 119 depending in the source) new and inherited 223 from Penn Central (Likely minus at least a couple due to wrecks and such before Conrail was formed). So about 100 didn't make it to the end, mostly due I'm sure to leases expiring.
Anyone know precisely how many of the 235 survivors were of Penn Central heritage? What were the fates of any of the new units bought by Conrail that didn't make it to the end, if any (Lease expired, sold, scrapped due to damage, etc.)?
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I show 223 GP38-2s built for Penn Central, PC 7940 - 8162 in three orders. They passed to Conrail with the same numbers. CR 7940 - 8039 returned to EMD at lease expiration when Conrail and EMD could not agree on new lease terms. Renumbered EMDX 740 - 839 by dropping the second digit of the CR number. 50 locomotives were leased each to BN and UP. No GP38-2s were lost by PC, though two plain GP38s were wrecked and scrapped, PC 7828 and PC 7849.
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Any ideas what the mix of PC/CR units were for the 50 or so additional retirements that didn't make it to Conrail's last day?
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