CSX and NS both still operate locomotives painted for Conrail, though these units have been renumbered so they are not "pure" Conrail.
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I've seen a couple of them come through Houston this year. Of course I'm not always by tracks and can't be by all of the lines at the same time so there have probably been several through here. They are definitely still around. Last year I saw a Sante Fe (blue and yellow) GP-38 with no visible renumbering switching a short local that had 2 green and while Burlington Northern cabooses (cabeese?) on it. One at each end. That's got to be a rare sight!
They're still around, a little rare to find these days but they are definitely out there.
There've been about a dozen in and out of Binghamton,NY over the past two weeks...even one GP35 doing local duties.
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Yes, there are still quite a few locos running around in CR blue..
hard to say how many exactly, but I would guess several hundred at least..
henry6There've been about a dozen in and out of Binghamton,NY over the past two weeks...even one GP35 doing local duties.
Sorry..cant be a GP35..Conrail retired all their GP35's in the mid to late 1980's..no CR GP35's made it to CSX or NS..you must have seen a GP38-2 or a GP40-2..quite a few of those still around.
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Saw one yesterday in Springfield,Mo coming up from Memphis,Tn. Looked to be GE-U-boat still in blue. Brian Thayer North Sub.
Check out The Waterlevel Route, on the North coast of Ohio, they're still here running the rails, albeit patched for NS and CSX, but still CR blue. R. Staller
Not uncommon to see them here in West Cental Ohio on the Ex NYC, PC,Conrail,currently NS.
ndbprr I suggest because I don;t know that the engines owned by NS will be painted as quickly as possible. They have a propensity for destroying any reference to merged in roads as quickly as they can. They are the Borg of railroads, "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated".
nedthomasCkeck out this link http://www.nsdash9.com/
I notice NS has retired all the B36-7s, C39-8s, B40-8s, C30-7As, C40-8s, and C32-8s but the GP40-2s and SD40-2s which are older, live on.
cpbloom nedthomas Ckeck out this link http://www.nsdash9.com/ I notice NS has retired all the B36-7s, C39-8s, B40-8s, C30-7As, C40-8s, and C32-8s but the GP40-2s and SD40-2s which are older, live on.
nedthomas Ckeck out this link http://www.nsdash9.com/
There are a quite a few 4000 HP Six Axle GE's (Dash 8 and Dash 9) that are stored not retired, many may be put back into service as the economy recovers.....
the -2s EMD are far better suited for local and yard work then the GE's were..
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carnej1cpbloom nedthomas Ckeck out this link http://www.nsdash9.com/ I notice NS has retired all the B36-7s, C39-8s, B40-8s, C30-7As, C40-8s, and C32-8s but the GP40-2s and SD40-2s which are older, live on. There are a quite a few 4000 HP Six Axle GE's (Dash 8 and Dash 9) that are stored not retired, many may be put back into service as the economy recovers..... the -2s EMD are far better suited for local and yard work then the GE's were..
I remember when I first saw the B36-7s in 83-84 pulling intermodals that were usually worked by GP40-2s.
Can't recall ever seeing them (B36-7) do anything else.
I saw Conrail Dash 8-40CW last night in Houston. NS #8399
I saw a flash of blue runnin south on the main through delaware south of frederica right before I left. Sad I wasn't able to turn around to chase it down.
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I just got my pictures back from July 4 (I still shoot film) and it included NS 6743 at Blue Island yard on the IHB, still in Conrail blue.
I saw one coupled with a NS on a bridge outside Greenville, TN, Jan 08 while on vacation. Nothing since. KCC
I'm fairly sure this isn't what you had in mind, but last I knew, the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania was displaying ex-PRR GP30 2233 in Conrail blue paint! I suspect that part of the motivation for this was because the 2233 looks downright austere and boring in completely authentic PRR paint, which was little more than a black dip job with small keystone PRR decals applied. That's what the loco wore when it was donated by the family of its late owner, Richard Sanders of Lewisburg, Pa., several years ago.
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I still see them come thru Reading PA alot.....just this past Saturday I saw about 4 on 3 different trains......mainly SD40-2`s
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And please don't forget that some of former CR units have migrated to Brazil (also some ex SP, UP and BN units too). Of course gauges there are different, and I've seen some in the broad - 1600 mm gauge - and also metre gauge,with some Co' Co's conveted to Do Do's, ffor example by Vale.
I just saw a CR SD-40-2 coupled to three other 40s heading up to Waycross on the Florida/Georgia border. It was great to catch one in CR livery let alone the fact that the entire loco consist was made up of four SD-40-2s and nothing else. CSX runs more older locos than NS does down here... I've seen quite a few Dash-8s in CR. By the way, I never noticed that CR had cab headlights on there 8-40-CWs (as well as several other safety-cab models)... I thought NS was the only one who ordered them that way. Why have a cab headlight vice a nose headlight? (besides adding frustration to NS modelers)
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