Its not the birth of Conrail that some of us celebrate but rather we mourn the deaths of the Erie Lackawanna, the Lehigh Valley, the Central Railorad of New Jersey, The Lehigh and Hudson River, and the Reading. No, not the death of Penn Central, in that we rejoice!
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wabash1 How can you have a birthday for something that is DEAD. and Im glad they are gone and i wish they would have scraped the engines they had also, they was all junk,
How can you have a birthday for something that is DEAD. and Im glad they are gone and i wish they would have scraped the engines they had also, they was all junk,
Jealous!!
We miss our Blue Conrail!!!!!!! Yes, Happy Birthday!!!
cr6479 happy birthday conrail !!!!! we miss you BIG BLUE
happy birthday conrail !!!!! we miss you BIG BLUE
Despite what others are saying in here; thank you for posting this.
I like Conrail, it has a great success story, and was a mighty railroad. I grew up watching BIG BLUE parade across Pennsylvania. I was part of my life and part of Pennsylvania life.
By the way, Paul is right; Conrail is not even gone, Shared Assets in Jersey & Michigan.
Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms are dead, too, but their birthdays are commemorated and celebrated; not quite sure if Conrail is in the same league, though.
Gone but not forgotten.
Mechanical Department "No no that's fine shove that 20 pound set all around the yard... those shoes aren't hell and a half to change..."
The Missabe Road: Safety First
No - not dead - as with Mark Twain, the rumors of its demise are premature. Instead, it's just been 'adopted', kind of like a foster child - now co-owned by NS and CSX - the ConRail Shared Assets Operation = CSAO. See -
http://www.conrail.com/freight.htm
- Paul North.
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