IS CONRAIL GONE FOREVER?????

[5292nate]

I know its not a loco, but I saw a Conrail auto rack the other day.

Those will be around for quite some time, as there are many of them! And chillax guys! We still have 1 Conrail loco that isn't going anywhere anytime soon!

[NYWhiskey]

I just caught this one on the Horseshoe Curve 7-20-13.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwxyusGx ... liTJ5Tg_Sg

[thecanadianrail]

LMSX got their C40-8's from Conrail

No, LMS C40-8W's were built specifically for LMS. LMS was a leasing program between CN-GE-CR hence why CN got their blue devils. They just looked like a CR dash 8. CN had a say in the specs. If they were from CR don't you think CN wouldn't have a say in the specs? :)

Well because CN never got their blue dash8's straight from LMSX, they ended up getting them when they purchased Illinois Central, thus the IC reporting marks on the cab.

[1225fan5358]

I just caught this one on the Horseshoe Curve 7-20-13.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwxyusGx ... liTJ5Tg_Sg

That was the fighting fifty. It's supposedly the last one for class I railroads. Which, the blue devils still kinda count for me but whatever.

[Noel]

In that video, it looks as though it's escaping Altoona under the cover of NS Colored PoWER.

[CSX2057]

In that video, it looks as though it's escaping Altoona under the cover of NS Colored PoWER.

Psst Cover me!

[1225fan5358]

Come on guys you can't let them do this to me!!

[glenn68]

http://www.conrail.com/

[NS9030]

Well because CN never got their blue dash8's straight from LMSX, they ended up getting them when they purchased Illinois Central, thus the IC reporting marks on the cab.

But you must remember, by the time CR split CN already had the IC so CN could letter them for whatever they wanted to.

Also CSX 8865 has a .01% chance of ever running in CR blue again(not saying it couldn't happen) but with CSX's SD40-3 rebuild program and the SD40 getting old its highly unlikely that it will.

[thecanadianrail]

Well because CN never got their blue dash8's straight from LMSX, they ended up getting them when they purchased Illinois Central, thus the IC reporting marks on the cab.

But you must remember, by the time CR split CN already had the IC so CN could letter them for whatever they wanted to.

Also CSX 8865 has a .01% chance of ever running in CR blue again(not saying it couldn't happen) but with CSX's SD40-3 rebuild program and the SD40 getting old its highly unlikely that it will.

Please note this page, it seems the Conrail historical society thinks otherwise.

http://thecrhs.org/Images/CN-2464ex-LMS-737

[bpetit]

Its not dead they have this: http://www.railpictures.net/photo/251258/

[CSX2057]

Its not dead they have this: http://www.railpictures.net/photo/251258/

Looks like a coffin to me.

[NS9030]

The Illinois Central Railroad (reporting mark IC), sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, is a railroad in the central United States, with its primary routes connecting Chicago, Illinois with New Orleans, Louisiana and Mobile, Alabama. A line also connected Chicago with Sioux City, Iowa (1870). There was a significant branch to Omaha, Nebraska (1899) west of Fort Dodge, Iowa and another branch reaching Sioux Falls, South Dakota (1877) starting from Cherokee, Iowa. The Sioux Fall branch has been abandoned in its entirety.

The Canadian National Railway gained control of the IC in 1998, and it is now a subsidiary and part of the CN Southern Region.

Conrail split on June 1st, 1999. They were lettered for IC because they were intended for use on the IC only, obviously that isn't the plan anymore but they still retain IC lettering. CN could do whatever they wanted with them really since IC was already in their control.

[thecanadianrail]

The Illinois Central Railroad (reporting mark IC), sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, is a railroad in the central United States, with its primary routes connecting Chicago, Illinois with New Orleans, Louisiana and Mobile, Alabama. A line also connected Chicago with Sioux City, Iowa (1870). There was a significant branch to Omaha, Nebraska (1899) west of Fort Dodge, Iowa and another branch reaching Sioux Falls, South Dakota (1877) starting from Cherokee, Iowa. The Sioux Fall branch has been abandoned in its entirety.

The Canadian National Railway gained control of the IC in 1998, and it is now a subsidiary and part of the CN Southern Region.

Conrail split on June 1st, 1999. They were lettered for IC because they were intended for use on the IC only, obviously that isn't the plan anymore but they still retain IC lettering. CN could do whatever they wanted with them really since IC was already in their control.

The point is, they were originally owned by CR. Plus railways could always sell off stuff at any time they want and that is clearly the case here.

[buzz456]

Conrail is gone forever except in our memories and the vr world. RIP.