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Posted by cr6479 on Tuesday, June 6, 2006 6:41 PM
CSX-DAN. You are a GEVO ACE. You need 10 more GEVO'S to be double ace.
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Posted by dwil89 on Tuesday, June 6, 2006 6:37 PM
The PC logo was just a patch job...whatever railroads were folded into Conrail just got renumbered early on, and kept original paint....just like the old un=repainted Conrail engines running around on NS and CSX with CSX and NS numbers 'patched on'...
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Posted by cr6479 on Tuesday, June 6, 2006 3:30 PM
CSX-DAN. Oh by the way I am working CHILI-PAUL Wegman on saturday.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 6, 2006 3:27 PM
That Sucks...Well I might just drop by for some Coffee Then
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Posted by cr6479 on Tuesday, June 6, 2006 3:26 PM
CSX-DAN I have to work on saturday until 5:00PM
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 6, 2006 3:22 PM
Hey cr6479 why dont u go to Pixley Saturday [8D]
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Posted by cr6479 on Tuesday, June 6, 2006 3:15 PM
CSX-DAN GOOD LUCK!!!!!
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 6, 2006 3:14 PM
I'm going to Pixley Saturday to try and catch more good
CSX Mainline Trains...and Hopefully my 6th GEVO
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 6, 2006 3:13 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by cr6479

CSX-DAN have you seen any conrail engines yet since we talked????

No No Conrails But I did see a UP SD70 With the most annoying
K3 ever it sounds like a CSX SD70MAC K5
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Posted by oltmannd on Tuesday, June 6, 2006 12:09 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Murphy Siding

QUOTE: Originally posted by msernak

Anyone care for CR's Electric Motors during the late 1970's? E44's, E33's, GG1's, EMD Demonstrators??

What kind of EMD demonstrators did CR try out?


Some EMD electrics. A GM6C and a GM10B.

At the time of Conrail's creation, there was still some thinking about electrifying to Pittsburgh which was the PRRs original goal. The electric fleet was old - and becoming obsolete (although the change from 25Hz, 11KVAC hasn't happened yet!) - and with the potential for big orders if the Pittsburgh electrification was built out, EMD built a couple prototypes with the help of ASEA for Conrail to demo.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 5, 2006 10:50 PM
Conrail is still going and long live conrail. Hopefully i'll be working for them by mid to late summer.
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Posted by Murphy Siding on Monday, June 5, 2006 9:14 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by msernak

Anyone care for CR's Electric Motors during the late 1970's? E44's, E33's, GG1's, EMD Demonstrators??

What kind of EMD demonstrators did CR try out?

Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.

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Posted by cr6479 on Monday, June 5, 2006 8:23 PM
msernak. Sure why not!!!!!
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Posted by cr6479 on Monday, June 5, 2006 8:21 PM
CSX-DAN have you seen any conrail engines yet since we talked????
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 5, 2006 8:01 PM
Anyone care for CR's Electric Motors during the late 1970's? E44's, E33's, GG1's, EMD Demonstrators??
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 5, 2006 6:47 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by cr6479

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

No I belive thats CSX Now I saw it Saturday
Yes cr6479 that me alright I had the black
Chevy Van and the Scanner [:D]
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Posted by cr6479 on Monday, June 5, 2006 3:46 PM
Does conrail still have GE 80 Ton number 99????
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Posted by cr6479 on Monday, June 5, 2006 3:28 PM
Hello CSX-DAN!!!! That was me you showed rules book on signals. Your CSX-DAN who was in the van with the scanner with the conrail shirt????

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 5, 2006 3:21 PM
Not Really But I Belive We Have Met You Showed Myself
and My Father aBook With Signals ect. and I told You I wanted to see an
SD70ACe
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Posted by cr6479 on Monday, June 5, 2006 3:11 PM
CSX-DAN. Have you tried on fridays too. Oh by the way i work a Tim Hortans in the area and at wegmans. If i am not working on some saturdays. I volnteer at Rochester Genesee Valley Railroad Museum in Rush at Rt251 or MP372.84 on the LA&L line.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 4, 2006 7:20 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by cr6479

CSX-DAN. Time to time you will see conrail engines with csx trains on Pixley Road in Gates. I seen GP20-evoltion engines and don't forget UP,CN,SF,BN,BNSFor NS engines go though Pixley Road. Hey CSX-DAN do you live on or near the Buffalo to Syracuse chicago main line???? O yea welcome to trains form!!!!

I live in Rochester and Every Saturday I go To Pixley and Try and Grab
some Good CSX Action and Once and a while I love to See the UP's
But I really want to see an ACe but I'm always in a CSX Hat and
maybe a Conrail Shirt or a CSX Shirt with a 70MAC On It
[;)]
I know I've Meet Somebody from this Form and He Told me
about A BNSF Train that had just BS On it and he worked
at a local Tim Hortans
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 4, 2006 3:07 PM
For me it has been CSX. I don't know about anyone else.
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Posted by cr6479 on Sunday, June 4, 2006 2:26 PM
Which class1 railroad or CONRAIL was the best with railfans and treated railfans nicely????
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 4, 2006 1:25 PM
By the way here is a pretty good roster I found on Conrail. It also shows which numbers NS and CSX recieved. Check it out.

http://www.thedieselshop.us/CR.HTML
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 4, 2006 1:24 PM
No, they did not have any of either I don't think.
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Posted by cr6479 on Sunday, June 4, 2006 1:17 PM
Did conrail ever have GP20-SD20 engines????
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 4, 2006 12:27 PM
Ahhhh.... got'cha.
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Posted by cr6479 on Sunday, June 4, 2006 12:25 PM
Yes it was temporary until they get the blue paint and the ownership.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 4, 2006 12:18 PM
Was it just a temporary thing to convert ownership or did they paint them like that?
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Posted by cr6479 on Sunday, June 4, 2006 12:06 PM
chinatown78241. That would be a BIG YES!!!!

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