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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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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.
I saw one coupled with a NS on a bridge outside Greenville, TN, Jan 08 while on vacation. Nothing since. KCC
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 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.
Adrianspeeder
USAF TSgt C-17 Aircraft Maintenance Flying Crew Chief & Flightline Avionics Craftsman
I saw Conrail Dash 8-40CW last night in Houston. NS #8399
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..
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/
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.
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nedthomasCkeck out this link http://www.nsdash9.com/
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".
Not uncommon to see them here in West Cental Ohio on the Ex NYC, PC,Conrail,currently NS.
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
Saw one yesterday in Springfield,Mo coming up from Memphis,Tn. Looked to be GE-U-boat still in blue. Brian Thayer North Sub.
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.
There'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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They're still around, a little rare to find these days but they are definitely out there.
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!
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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