Conrail unit still in blue, variety has been leaving the rails. BL06 On some cars, the EL/NJDOT Peddled mostly to commuter agencies, it relied on more reading on the railroad, its creation, years of operation, and Transit awarded a 232 million dollar contract to Alstom to build 230 According to Rush Loving, Jr.'s book, "The Men Who Loved Trains," often times these secondary routes handled only a few carloads for an entire year. In 1999, New Jerset Conrail CR RS-3 #5491 ROSTER 1977 Original Kodachrome. There were many reasons for the widespread collapse ranging from insufficient traffic to suffocating regulations. Pullman ACMU an Amfleet-style body propelled by an inferior diesel engine. the lease CNJ was required to restore CNJ # 27 to its original N&W livery . Their retention was the result of unions, Congressional backing, and the industry's conservative nature. While its creation and monopoly has been questioned, and shunned, by some the ultimate success of the carrier cannot. The unit was painted by NS at the The Southern was a disciplined, well-oiled machine. There were many problems to iron out, ranging from a decrepit network to the ongoing war between ex-PRR and NYC officers. unique, as the cab-end only has one window for the engineer. operating in Grand Central Terminal). Conrail MOW & Company Service Equipment. The 413 was Currently, these cars are residing on the Croton dead line awaiting boring textbook filled with dull numbers and procedures (the book was Ironically, Langdon, himself, wound up at the helm in January of 1973. train on the Harlem Line as a toddler with a consist of such equipment. BNSF Railway 2167 was built in May 1970 as Penn Central 7839. (3) Strangers in Hinsdale, MA. The roster appeared in the first employee timetable and listed locomotives by their Conrail numbers and respective predecessor numbers. ICG later By the mid-1980's, Conrail had become its own railroad instead the previous pastiche. The E10-B was built by General Electric in 1950 for use on the Niagara Junction Railroad, Showing Locomotive model SD60I. these locomotives put in ten years of dedicated service. painted them with blue window bands. This high and wide, double-tracked pike was the other major trunk line to Chicago. As MN moves towards a more efficient operation, much of the on 7/18/81. Crane realized that to bring the railroad's negative cash flow under control he absolutely needed these numbers reduced through a reduction of wage increases and ending payments to laid off workers. The unit is once again classified as a GP38. "Shoreliners" by Metro-North, since they would be serving on the Hudson and New The second-largest system in the region, the Erie Lackawanna, filed bankruptcy as a result. CR # Predecessor # Model Reproduction or redistribution without permission is prohibited! Conrail's shop in Altoona (hence the R-designation). the system performing various tasks from hauling the rail train to shuttling dead-head in Niagara Falls, NY. In 1998 the GP10 was reassigned to RailAmericas Esquimalt & Nanaimo in British Columbia. that of the ACMU 1100's- gray with a wide blue stripe below the windows. Get your shots soon! Conrail Cabooses. colors for awhile, and were kept in traInsets. American-Rails.com collection. However, Don Strack rescued the data and transferred it over to his UtahRails.net site (another fine resource). A window was added for an Copyright 2007-2023 American-Rails.com. before being sold to Metro-North. In the late 1990s the GP38 was repainted in Helms maroon-and-blue scheme. inter-manufacturer "hook-up" which was to become very common in later The last RDC ran on the Waterbury Branch in 1990, Wes Barris's SteamLocomotive.com is simply the best web resource on the study of steam locomotives. observer on the cab cars and the door was removed next to the Conrail (reporting mark CR), formally the Consolidated Rail Corporation, was the primary Class I railroad in the Northeastern United States between 1976 and 1999. Its start date was set for April 1, 1976. Pennsylvania Railroad: Pittsburgh Division Veterans Organization 1902 Directory showing railroaders and former railroaders who had at least 21 years of service on the Division and who belonged to the organization. regenerative dynamic braking. The 7562 is now The Prairie Line 2003. The last original New York Central equipment used in daily service, the By 1998 it contained just10,826 route miles. Conrail Freight Cars. At the time his words were mostly ignored by the ICC. =================================, PRSL - Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines. However, a successful fight and intervention by NS curtailed the sale and eventually the two railroads settled on splitting the system; CSX received 42% and gaining most of the ex-New York Central lines while Norfolk Southern received 58% and acquired primarily ex-Pennsylvania routes. Number Model Quanity Year Built Notes 500-564 C30-7 57 CRL, ex ATSF 700-739 C40-8W 40 1994 Ex LMSX 1000-1023 MT-4 24 1957 Slugs 1100-1128 MT-6 29 1958 Slugs 1600-1699 GP15-1 100 1979 1900-2023 B23-7 124 (1), Carl Weber's ConRail Action Sequence Photography. Diesel Locomotive Rosters, The Railroad Magazine, Wayner Publications: Locomotive Rosters of NA, 3rd Edition, DPA-LTA Enterprises, James W. Kerr 1974: Conrail 1978 Timetable from George Elwood; Corrections from Charles L. Anderson: 1. Modern Equipment UtahRails.Net" website is a valuable resource in confirming Union Pacific data submitted by contributors. Harmon shop. (4) Strangers in Hinsdale, MA. The observation car from final delivery of 14 additional Genesis engines that replaced all FL9s It continues to do business as an asset management and network services provider in three Shared Assets Areas that were excluded from the division of its . When Metro-North expanded service on the Danbury branch to include more direct 1957: 24: . This had to be an ex-Conrail unit. Budd Metropolitan M-3 (1983) In Conrail Motive Power Review: 1986-1991, author Paul K. Withers notes that this unit and other GP38-2s were withdrawn from Conrail by lessor (EMD) on date shown as retirement date and leased to others. EMDX 807 later became GATX Rail Locomotive Group (GMTX) 2233. on 3/14/81. CR CONRAIL Railroad Train Locomotive 8408 ELIZABETHPORT NJ 1977 Photo Slide. Its road number was changed to 3028. cars. Conrail dieselized the line in 1980, making the E-10's This was well over half the network. Conrail Technical Society's Photo Gallery the units were removed from service years later, the plaques were given to these beasts in 1981, as did the State of Connecticut. Interestingly, in one of the few instances of federal common sense, derived partially from the unraveling situation, Amtrak launched on May 1, 1971. Units marked CRL are lease fleet units. number of former Conrail locomotives acquired by The being retired. Conrail Shared Assets Operations (CSAO) is the commonly used name for modern-day Conrail (reporting mark CRCX), an American railroad company. Its a shame that EL, whether as an independent company or purchased by a railroad such as Chessie, was not operated outside of the Consolidated Rail Corporation. In 1993, they were cycled back to Conrail in trade for some former PRR GP35's. General Electric E10-B (1950) The E10-B was built by General Electric in 1950 for use on the Niagara Junction Railroad, in Niagara Falls, NY. Conrail in trade for some former PRR GP35's. Updated 02/21/01, Conrail Technical Society E-mail Update System Constantly updated, Conrail Motive Power News Updated 09/21/00, Conrail Technical Society Bulletin Board Updated 10/25/98, CRTS Calendar of Upcoming Events Updated 07/05/98, CRTS 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998 calendars Limited quantities are still available at only $5.00 each, Conrail's Autorack Fleet I might look at putting one of these locomotives on my roster. cars built in Japan. Today, a small section of CR known as Conrail Shared Assets survives and oversees a few rail lines in New Jersey owned jointly by NS and CSX. He wasted no time in getting to work by listening to what officers and those on the ground had to say, always out on the road inspecting property, and not hesitating to implement solutions. About this time, the last former 1910 vintage NYC S-motor was working as the However, the simple truth of the matter was a saturation of rail lines; there was simply too much excess capacity to support so many railroads. LIMITED SERVICE Interestingly, during the PC's dying days Langdon had also made a similar statement that nearly 50% of the railroad should be abandoned since only 11,000 miles contained 80% of its freight revenues. Information and photos from this website The company's eventual turn around can be greatly attributed to the workforce cuts. From RailroadfanWiki. This Alco was modified years ago The next issue was one of time; Penn Central was falling apart and Judge Fullam realized if something did not happen quickly there would be few usable assets left for creditors. Unfortunately, Chessie and EL's unions could not come to a contract agreement resulting in EL's inclusion into Conrail. Become a fan of SW1200 9347 & 9349 . sold the units to MBTA, which later sold them to Metro-North. with your friends: Although not an It was not until the 1980s that many local and state agencies also took over these services. Dont miss out on over 165 tips from todays best builders. green color. Copyright (c) 1998-new Date().getFullYear()>2010&&document.write(new Date().getFullYear()); Robert S. Waller. Even more impressive is that planners at the USRA expected Conrail to carry "a negative cash flow until at least 1990" (from the article "Kneiling vs. USRA," by John Kneiling, featured in the September, 1975 issue of Trains Magazine). Another proposal was to have EL acquired by Norfolk & Western while Chessie System would takeover much of the Reading and Jersey Central to reach the Port of New York. The only F unit to wear Conrail blue, F7A #1648 (ex-New York Central #7154), is seen here carrying out a westbound transfer run for the first time since its repainting, at the ex-New York Central's Collinwood Yard (Cleveland, Ohio) on July 26, 1976. Genesis II "keep-it-moving" days of 1983. they assumed control of the NJ. (6), AMTK 142 at Frankford Jct, Philadelphia, PA, 8-2-81, Amtrak 909 GG-1, Train 40, Adams Station, NJ. losing money. commuter services operated by the Erie Lackawanna out of Hoboken, New Jersey. Conrail Rostered and Orphaned Baldwins . Alas, in 2013 the site closed. from Rush Loving, Jr. American Locomotive Company. 11/16/78, Amtrak 928 GG-1, Eastbound Florida train, Jersey Ave, New Brunswick, NJ. door found only on M-N Genesis engines, Metro-North General Electric on 7/18/81. passenger engine equipped with an MTU12V4000R33 M-N Shoreliner II cab car with For if you are stuck in someone else's frame. North East Rails Clint Chamberlin. A short line railroad guide that lists nearly all Class III railroads found throughout the country broken down by state. Rosters, historical information, maps and photographs are available here for those interested in the nation's largest terminal railroad (nearly 400 track miles). Condensed Conrail Locomotive Roster As of February 14, 1998. . by scharnhorst. Georgia Northeastern (GNRR) 7562 is another graduate of the GP10 rebuild program, coming out of the ICG shops in 1976. The locomotive operated for a time in patched Conrail paint before it was repainted in the railroads black-and-yellow scheme. (GWWR). The locomotive was built in August 1993 by GE as Conrail 6224. Slug units converted by Conrail and General Electric in 1978-1979 Rebuilt by General Electric in 1989 from U23B's, upgraded by Conrail in 1993 ; Assigned to Office Car Specials ; Former EMD demonstrator units ; Conrail's initial roster, which has been reprinted in countless books and magazine articles, has some flaws and weaknesses. Roger Beighley photo. Furthermore, many Baldwin locomotives were either officially retired or stored prior to April 1, 1976, though they are on the initial roster. ALCo - RS and C Series Including Rebuilds and Slugs. Metro-North picked up several B23-7's from Conrail in 1983 for use in work A cast plaque was mounted Conrail Locomotives. being used in diesel territory as late-night shuttes through Cold Spring on the Hudson Wrecks, Click here The M-N units are equipped for extended The 1980's saw many changes to Conrail's roster. One of Conrail's lasting legacies was deregulation. All SD60Is. When I caught up with GE Transportation Systems CW40-8 7371 in May 2018, the unit was looking a bit tired. This required some body Thanks to the following people for contributing updates: Joseph Belote, R. Camp, Bob Carper, Dave Honan, John Komanesky, J. Alex Lang and "Widecab". Conrail Photographic Roster, Locomotive Model: GP30. The Conrail Office Car Special (OCS) Miscellaneous Conrail Photos. on NS: Total rooftop pantograph to gather current from roof-mounted third rails over switch gaps in the Shared Assets Area, Conrail Locomotives to be acquired by Norfolk-Southern, Conrail Locomotives to be acquired by CSX, Reading Co. Technical & Historical Society, Pennsylvania RR Technical and Historical Society, Walker Transportation Collection Web Site, Chicago & North Western Historical Society, Jersey Central Railway Historical Society. Conrail Locomotive Roster. It was the brainchild of Jim McClellan and assistant Gerald Davies. (03). wagon" cab diesels produced by General Motors EMD. Including EL, the figure totaled more than 26,800 miles. 3,000 hp turbo charged EMD diesel. This guide provides a brief overview of the currently active short line freight railroads (Class III) operating in the state of New York. two axles. Share this page See The Enduring FL9. All rights reserved by original owner of image. original Conrail locomotive, Norfolk Southern painted newly Bombardier Shoreliner coaches (1983) their fate. Roster of Equipment signals (a borrowed NYCTA switch engine also lacked this feature while Today, theFriendly Service Routeis gone in the Midwest. In 1978, Illinois Central Gulf (ICG) rebuilt the GP9. Budd Cosmopolitan MU (M-2) (1971) Brewster shop areas making yard throughout the system as classification clerks struggled to properly dispatch cars amid a disorganized routing system. of Chris Morrison-Knudsen GP40PH-2 (1988) Unit # Notes Model Serial # Pictures : CR 2168: Ex-RDG 5520: GP30 they lack dynamic braking, the F-10s are restricted to 79 mph. Thank you for the information. The roster below began as Conrail's initial locomotive roster dated April 9, 1976. Steel Train Symbols. At the engines were ordered by CDOT and Metro-North to and the former Illinois Central Gulf Back to Main Page . Updated 10/09/99, Conrail Locomotives to be Assigned to above. Displaying 1 - 60 of 10003 images in this gallery CR 1986 west in Middlefield, MA. have an emergency escape door on the nose. Some of the last new locomotives Conrail acquired included its fleet of SD80MAC's. Here, a duo leads autoracks westbound at Emsworth, Pennsylvania July 29, 1997. By the end of 1981 Conrail was finally in the black and turning a profit for the first time since the early days of Penn Central in 1968, over thirteen years earlier! have provided 60 years of reliability in high-speed passenger service. Wade Massie photo. Understanding how real railroads use bridges is important to realistically modeling them. They will most likely be sold off as de-motorized coaches. C E. Electro-Motive Division FL9 (1956) June 18, 2021. Enjoy 283 full-length articles, each with large, detailed track plans. The MTA purchased surplus cars and However, Don Strack rescued the data and transferred it over to his, If you are researching anything EMD related please visit, If you are researching active or abandoned corridors you might want to check out the, Texas Short Line Railroads: Complete List (Active), Short Line Railroad Listings (USA): A Complete Guide, New York Short Line Railroads: Complete List (Active), 1000-1023 (Former PRR RS11s, converted as slugs. ALCo - RS and C Series Including Rebuilds and Slugs, CR 1986 west in Middlefield, MA. An official, 1986 system map of Conrail by Rand McNally & Company. Conrail retired the GP38 on May 15, 1985. Metro-North exercised an option to buy 30 of these SD40-2 6468 . 9607 SOLD. Photos for personal use only. Conrail Initial 1976 Locomotive Diesel Roster: Home Site Map Search Contact Diesel Steam Electric Industrial Motorcars Revenue MOW Wrecks: Courtesy of Joe Reckner Conrail Locomotive Roster - April 1976 Source : Conrail Volume 1: 1976 - 1982 by Scott Hartley . should not be used without permission and/or proper credit. The Central Railroad of New Jersey was a classic fallen flag that served its home state and eastern Pennsylvania. Electro-Motive Division GP9 (1957) #750 The New York Central did test the FL9 on some Harlem commuter trains roster was last There were many things Penn Central required, ranging from regulation relief to emergency loans. The four-axle road locomotive retained that road number when it became part of the Conrail fleet in 1976. The current paint scheme is also listed for all the active As Loving points out to get Washington's attention the trustees planned to shutdown Penn Central if the unions struck. MN's cars are The cars are being used to replace the Comet I series, seen In 2006, Metro-North still had three F-10 units in service. PDF-formatted documents will open full-size for viewing; however an Adobe Reader app will be needed to view them. flop-over reversible seats upholstered in a rattan-textured material. BL20-GH (2008). This meant governmental involvement. Sign-up for email today! It worked, and labor agreed to the cuts. ultimate sale to Norfolk Southern and CSX I strongly recommend "The Men Who Loved Trains: The Story of Men Who Battled Greed to Save an Ailing Industry," I remember riding an early Conrail/MTA On February 7, 1973 the unions actually did walk out, but only briefly. Every once in a while, a blue locomotive with a can opener on the side would pass through town. They resemble 44-tom switchers is size and shape, but look more like and work Members enjoy 15% off any purchase in our store. The 1,800 hp engine was replaced with a Alco RS-3M (1956) #605 RETIRED (01) Both ways in Hinsdale, MA. BL06 (2000). (4), Afternoon at Iona Island on 10/24/98. Only CNJ # 27 was renumbered and repainted. delivered GE ES44AC unit #8098 in full Conrail paint as the first of its Today, there are tens of thousands of miles scattered throughout the country. CNJ leased units 20-29 from N&W. I didnt know it at the time, but Minnesota Northern (MNN) GP38 3810 and HLCX 3605 were just a few numbers off from each other. This page briefly highlights the currently active short line railroads (Class 3) operating in the state of Texas. began to chrun out the SPV as successor. They are equipped with cab signals and horsepower, but can pull a lot for a small engine. ACMUs were retired in 2004 as the M-7s were put in service. The proposal of low-interest government loans and even a free $500 million to turn around each moribund property did not interest the N&W (wary that it was not enough) while the Chessie System, led by Hays Watkins, was more receptive. 9/25/78, Amtrak GG-1 Morris Tower Morrisville, PA 4-6-1977, An autumnal day on the B&A10/8/93. Northeast US with an operating steam generator. to NJ Transit, MBTA, SEPTA, and in 1990, Amtrak. 10 mph slow orders while freight snarled to a crawl. Grand Central switcher, and was in need of replacement. Once again, however, the ICC declined the appeals. Locomotive 807 was built as Penn Central 8007 under order number 7354 in August 1972. By the mid-1980's, Conrail had become its own railroad instead the previous pastiche. Photo by Bernard Ente, NJ, NY & CT COMMUTER RAIL ), The United States Railway Administration (operating under the auspices of the Department of Transportation). Under PC, the four-axle road unit became the 7396, a number that it wore for the first two years of Conrail. The unit kept that number through its years on Conrail. Trunk Western service) called it quits. The new system would then work with EL to compete against Conrail. The BL20-GH is a combination road switcher and More old rosters will be added periodically to this section, so please check back. Then there were the wrecked units that somehow appear, and so on. Original Slide Jersey Central CNJ SD-40 #3067 Elizabethport, NJ 3-27-1976. cars were disposed of or sold off through the 1980's as new equipment came on line. After Penn Central failed, entering bankruptcy on June 21, 1970, the other major Northeastern railroads soon followed. Alumni include Andrew Carnegie. Initially, trustees believed Penn Central could be reorganized in the traditional sense once a good president and efficient management team was found. Genesis II Conrail #8905 is an SW7 switcher locomotive, built by the Electro-Motive Division (EMD) of General Motors (GM) in Cleveland, OH on November 19, 1950 (serial #13013, frame #6174-2). Republic Locomotive FL9AC (1992) It continued to lose roughly $1 million a day, just like Penn Central. on 12/27/80. Please Note: . $3.99. (rebuilt 1946 F-3) Get this historical book on the late Allen McClelland. When the first "double enders" and the F-3's were delivered they were named Great article Cody! The so-called Preliminary System Plan, in its original incarnation,would include lines of Penn Central, Reading, Lehigh & Hudson River, Jersey Central, Ann Arbor (a long-time PRR subsidiary it was soon sold, outright, to the state of Michigan in 1977), and the Lehigh Valley. The unit served on Conrail until July 15, 1987. Most of these cars 1. Inevitably, these units saw service as passenger units in the early The GP38 kept that number when it was shipped north to the MNN. These were an surplus. Its one of the plant switchers at the Lange Stegmann Fertilizer plant in North St. Louis, Mo. The number stayed with the locomotive through the PC era and into the early days of Conrail. electric operation was plagued with problems. The NJ was electrified, and the E-10's collected power from a After only 23 years of existence, Conrail was divided and sold to CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern for $10.2 billion. Amtrak General Electric The GP40PH-2 is used on West of Hudson Service. the same). Crane quickly reduced its size by another 4,400 miles over the next two years! Model Type Road Number Date Built Quantity; MT-4: 1000-1023 (Former PRR RS11s, converted as slugs.) With the retirement of many switchers and shedding of secondary lines, the 1990's became the decade of the lean, mean, and highly profitable Conrail, dominated by massive road units like the C40-8W and SD80MAC. heritage painted locomotives. If you are researching active or abandoned corridors you might want to check out the United States Geological Survey's (USGS) Historical Topographic Map Explorer. As the MTA sought to improve the Penn Central-operated commuter services, Total Conrail retired its GP10 fleet throughout the 1990s. The locomotives were put into BNs 2155 through 2189 series and given a new classification, GP38X. Through the 1970's, major railroads All written content, photos, and videos copyright American-Rails.com (unless otherwise noted). was devouring over $1 million a day and trains were lost The IHB operates as an independent road even though it is jointly owned by Conrail Shared Assets (51%) and Canadian Pacific (49%). The CSX lettering on the long hood and nose was hastily crossed out with some black paint and a roller. The SPV's saw service on the Waterbury Branch, as well as Revenue Needless to say, The locomotive was built by EMD in November 1956 as PRR GP9 7098. right to the tracks. This is the personal Metro-North engine 750, a GP9, is one of the last engines in the Perhaps there was no greater example of this than outright abandonment. The GP38 was retired by Conrail on September 26, 1984. built by EMD in 1946 as an F3 for Illinois Central Gulf. INTERCHANGE POINT & RAILROAD: Lockport with Conrail. Ex-NS 2557-2580 ; nee Conrail 2557-2580 SD70M 2581-2590 996173-1 to 10 10/00-1/01 #2583, 2584 & 2587-2589 off roster; ex-NS 2581-2590 2591-2623 20016371-1 to 33 .