CSX's Conrail patched unit's life span?

[w neal]

How long did CSX's patched Conrail units last? Were they all gone by the time of the boxcar logo?

[Philip H]

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.

[w neal]

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!

[mu26aeh]

Maybe @Ed Kapuscinski  knows ?  I thought there was a site somewhere that was keeping track of previous Conrail locos

[w neal]

Ask "Ed"?

Sacrilege!!!!!

[Petty Cash]

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.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

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.

[EL3632]

...Ironically at some of my earliest railfan haunts which were directly responsible for my love of Conrail.

Pavonia Yard?

[w neal]

Thanks sirs!!!! So a lashup with CSX's dark future units is a prototype crime eh?

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Pavonia Yard?

Yep!

I forgot to post the link: http://railfanning.kapuscinski.net/2020/05/my-last-conrail-sighting-december-27-2011/

[davefoxx]

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

[jpec]

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

[Tristan Ashcroft]

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.

[GonzoCRFan]

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...

[Ed Kapuscinski]

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.