CONRAIL THREAD FOR EVERYBODY!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Here's a couple of goodies for ya:

TV9 at Harrington Park, NJ, on the West Shore (River Line)


...and a pair of FL9's southbound on the Hudson Line shot from Fort Montgomery, NY.

[cr6479]

bwilcox. trainfan1221 may live near or around NJ airport because their is a yard near the airport.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by trainfan1221

Well I just noticed this thread, wish I had seen this earlier. Living in North Jersey and still missing Conrail.

Where in North Jersey? I grew up in Harrington Park, on the West Shore line and not far from the Northern Branch and Pascack Valley Line. I miss big blue too.....

[cr6479]

trainfan1221. Here in rochester New York we all miss big blue. CSX & NS should of left big blue alone!!!!

[trainfan1221]

Well I just noticed this thread, wish I had seen this earlier. Living in North Jersey and still missing Conrail.

[Anonymous]

A Conrail train rolled north through Portage, Michigan between 4 P.M. and 6 P.M. almost every day in the 1990's. Of the trains that I saw, There were rarely ever the same tank cars and ACF Center Flow Hoppers repeated. There was always a different roadname or paint scheme on the variety of tank cars. The Auto Parts Boxcars were always the same group of Conrail Auto Parts Boxcars making the same trip to and from Grand Rapids.

The motive power heading to the Grand Rapids, MI Yard was mostly Conrail. Occasionally a Union Pacific or Burlington Northern set of units would move north.

There were rare but large groups of maintenance of way cars painted mostly in light gray heading north to Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids. In Kalamazoo there were a few MOW Gondolas painted in Bright Yellow.

Inside the Kalamazoo Yard during the 1990's was one constant sight: The PC ACF 2-Bay Sand Hopper.

Andrew Falconer

[Anonymous]

Ummm...I have to say CSX.

[cr6479]

NOW which railroad has the best looking engine????

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by 4884bigboy

QUOTE: Originally posted by chinatown782411

QUOTE: Originally posted by cr6479

What railroad has the best horn CSX,NS,UP,BNSF,CP,CPR,Amtrak or conrail????

I like the horns on Norfolk Southern's GP50's (ex-SOU)

Ah, those would be Nathan P5s. Very nice horns indeed.

As for me, I'll take an Amtrak K5LA with a 2 stage automatic valve or a CSX K5LAR24. Also have to throw my hat in for the old Conrail manual valve Leslie S3LRs.

That's right, the P5's[banghead]

[Anonymous]

Just though I would share these sites that explain the Conrail Shared Assets (they helped me understand).

http://knorek.com/RR/SAA/SAAIndex.htm

http://www.conrail.com/freight.htm

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by chinatown782411

QUOTE: Originally posted by cr6479

What railroad has the best horn CSX,NS,UP,BNSF,CP,CPR,Amtrak or conrail????

I like the horns on Norfolk Southern's GP50's (ex-SOU)

Ah, those would be Nathan P5s. Very nice horns indeed.

As for me, I'll take an Amtrak K5LA with a 2 stage automatic valve or a CSX K5LAR24. Also have to throw my hat in for the old Conrail manual valve Leslie S3LRs.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cr6479

CSX-DAN. Class 1 railroads like csx know there is alot of conrail fans out there.

No they don't. Power just gets placed on trains because it's available, not for railfans. And not to be mean, but there aren't any unpatched Conrails anymore.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cr6479

What railroad has the best horn CSX,NS,UP,BNSF,CP,CPR,Amtrak or conrail????

I like the horns on Norfolk Southern's GP50's (ex-SOU) and the horns on the GEVO's.

[Anonymous]

Espically the CSX AC6000's have some awsome K5's and SD50's have awsome
K5LAR24's

[Anonymous]

CSX!!! Has awsome K5's

[cr6479]

What railroad has the best horn CSX,NS,UP,BNSF,CP,CPR,Amtrak or conrail????

[cr6479]

CSX & NS both own conrail shares, but conrail is still around.

[Anonymous]

I went into PA The Other day I saw a GP38-2 NS and 2 UP SD70M a
white and black NS Dash 9 and an NS M-2

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cr6479

I think conrail makes a profit????

So there still is a Conrail but it is owned by CSX and NS (Conrail is independent). Is it owned 50-50 by the two?

[Anonymous]

I grew up on an ex-Reading rr branch in SE PA. One of my earliest memories was a CR train with a black ex-PC GP35 leading a CR blue unit. It took me years of learning about trains to identify what I saw. Not surprisingly it broke down before they could leave town!
If you want to see ex-CR units east texas is a good place. I have seen C40-8W's, SD60M/I's, SD40-2's, SD50/60's, GP40-2's, etc. Every time I go to Centennial yard or Tower 55 in Fort Worth I see them.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cr6479

Does conrail still have GE 80 Ton number 99????

As far as I know they never did. They had a 44-tonner #9999 at start up but it was retired within the first two years.

[cr6479]

How many SD60-SD80's MACK engines did CSXT & NS got from conrail split????

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cr6479

Did conrail ever have GP20-SD20 engines????

Yes they did actually. There was a small group of GP20's of NYC heritage that they had inhertied. PC de-turbocharged them. Most I have seen were used for yard transfers between Sharonville (Cincinnati) and L&N's Decoursey, KY yard.
They were retired in 1985.

[cr6479]

I think conrail makes a profit????

[Anonymous]

I know but how do they do it. For example, Conrail delievers 5 boxcars and makes a profit. Who gets the profit? Is it split up?

[cr6479]

chinatown782411. Conrail shared assets is shared between CSXT & NS.

[Anonymous]

How does the whole Conrail Shared Assets thing work?

[cr6479]

Does anybody know where is conrail engine number 125 is????

[cr6479]

Does anybody know where conrail engine number 5550 is????

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cr6479

Does anybody know where is CR engine numbers 6340,4128,5610,5618 are????

CR 5610= NS 6738

CR 5618= NS 6742

CR 4128= CSX 812

CR 6340= ???? (Shared assets maybe?)