could anyone tell me if there are still conrail locomotives travelling around the railroads… have they all been repainted… i read on another forum that there are non left with the conrail blue and white color scheme
CSX and NS both still operate locomotives painted for Conrail, though these units have been renumbered so they are not “pure” Conrail.
Bryan Jones
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!
They’re still around, a little rare to find these days but they are definitely out there.
There’ve been about a dozen in and out of Binghamton,NY over the past two weeks…even one GP35 doing local duties.
thanks for the replys… i have quite a few ho scale conrail locos i like to keep my model railroad upto date… i had read somewhere that all the conrail locos had been repainted… it good to see that some of the old conrail locos are still around…
Ckeck out this link http://www.nsdash9.com/
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…
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.
Scot
Saw one yesterday in Springfield,Mo coming up from Memphis,Tn. Looked to be GE-U-boat still in blue. Brian Thayer North Sub.
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”.
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
Not uncommon to see them here in West Cental Ohio on the Ex NYC, PC,Conrail,currently NS.
It’s ten years now and there’s still several around. Word is that they want to have them all repainted by the end of the year. I sure don’t recall seeing any NKP or Wabash units in those colors even four or five years after the merger. Some of them did start to resurface, yeah, that’s it, after the N&W paint started wearing off.
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.
I saw Conrail Dash 8-40CW last night in Houston. NS #8399
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
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 one coupled with a NS on a bridge outside Greenville, TN, Jan 08 while on vacation. Nothing since. KCC