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General Discussion => Prototype Railroads: News, Photos, Research => Topic started by: w neal on May 13, 2020, 11:05:27 AM
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How long did CSX's patched Conrail units last? Were they all gone by the time of the boxcar logo?
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Are you asking how long they lasted as patched out locos or how long did they last in general? I see ex-Conrail units running weekly on the coast, so they have quite a service life, but none of them are still patched out.
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Glad they are still around.
My apologies. Asking how long they lasted in Conrail blue patched out paint. Whats my time period? Can I run them with the dark future units? Anybody got any pics?
I.E. What can I run my Atlas CSX (patched out ex-Conrail) 8-40C with?
Thanks!
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Maybe @Ed Kapuscinski knows ? I thought there was a site somewhere that was keeping track of previous Conrail locos
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Ask "Ed"?
Sacrilege!!!!!
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My memory isn't quite what it should be these days, but I want to say the number of patched CR units was dwindling to maybe a handful or two by about 2010-2012. I could always be completely off too.
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I think they were all gone by late 2011.
Oddly, blue was gone on CSX first. The only stuff that wasn't repainted was retired.
NS still had a few units floating around at that point. In fact, I just found the shots I had of the last blue units I ever saw. Ironically at some of my earliest railfan haunts which were directly responsible for my love of Conrail.
(http://railfanning.kapuscinski.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/2011.12.27-Conrail-Power-at-Pavonia.jpg)
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...Ironically at some of my earliest railfan haunts which were directly responsible for my love of Conrail.
Pavonia Yard?
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Thanks sirs!!!! So a lashup with CSX's dark future units is a prototype crime eh?
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Pavonia Yard?
Yep!
I forgot to post the link: http://railfanning.kapuscinski.net/2020/05/my-last-conrail-sighting-december-27-2011/
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Unfortunately, it appears the last Conrail unit that I caught in the wild was at the 2010 edition of the CRHS Rail-B-Q on May 1st. It's a terrible shot of then-NS C40-8W No. 8405:
http://davefoxx.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2042624
Thankfully, it wasn't the only Conrail units I saw that day, as we caught a pair of SD40-2s on the Rockville Bridge.
http://davefoxx.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2042846
But, hard to believe, it's been ten years this month since I've seen one. Sad.
DFF
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At least NS took the time to make a halfway decent patch, especially the ones that got the PRR script. CSX just scraped and stuck. A portent of their management philosophies.
Jeff
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At least NS took the time to make a halfway decent patch, especially the ones that got the PRR script. CSX just scraped and stuck. A portent of their management philosophies.
Jeff
Just a wild guess, but I strongly suspect that the PRR keystone script cab lettering was done before management found out about it. Guys in the paint shops in the Altoona-Hollidaysburg vicinity had been doing what they wanted in spite of management for a long time. See: predecessor road road number on freight cars.
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Yep!
I forgot to post the link: http://railfanning.kapuscinski.net/2020/05/my-last-conrail-sighting-december-27-2011/
That was a good day. Should've made sure we had an AK...
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That was a good day. Should've made sure we had an AK...
Even though we would't have had to use it.
It WAS a good day.