The ghost of the Penn Central...

[galaxy]

Here in Upstate NY I have seen trains go by with some (very) fade PC's logos on them...or it if it gets recirc'd around here.

[ndbprr]

My 2002 ORER still listed forty+ cars still lettered for PRR. That is thirty four years after it merged with the enemy.  Fortunately one was a steel coil car in dedicated service for the Inland to INTEK steel coil train.  I must have forty or fifty pictures of it by now.

[Anonymous]

seen some cars from penn central and US army

[trainfan1221]

Haven't seen one of those in years, though they used to be common around here.  Now we don't even have Conrail anymore.

[jph2]

Sweet!

Unfortunatley, I too, did not have a camera available when CSX apparently scrapped out a half dozen or so box cars in jade green in Lansing MI. I was unable to get the reporting marks, but the Jade Green was unmistable. This was, apparently, a small operation as the box cars were on a siding one day, and a few days later, they were a pile of scrap metal next to the ROW. Not even in a yard or anything. I assume the work was done by a contractor.

I also missed an opportunity to abscond with a PC logo sign on a bridge over I-94 in Detroit. Not being a vandal, I just never got around to contacting Conrail about the sign. In the late 90s or early 2000s, the bridge was rehabilitated and the sign is no longer there. Before that, Conrail had never converted it from PC, yet Penn Central obviously felt the track warranted changing the sign from its predecessor NYC.

So, yeah, the ghosts of Penn Central are still out there and they show up in the most unusual places. Keep your eyes peeled, though. They're probably fewer and fewer... 

[Anonymous]

is alive in Kansas City! I was at my spot watching trains at Santa Fe junction in KC when a unit appeared in Penn Central colors all faded out & the letters "CR" on the nose from when Conrail took over the ill-fated railroad. Unbelievable! Unfortunately, I did not have my camera with me. I will try to find this unit & document this. It's crazy what you can see sometimes!

Steve