No Big Blue?

[JPindar]

I am surprised, seeing most current companies on here, but, where is good ole Conrail?

[Alan]

As a western road fan, I am still surprised there is no Conrail forum. A friend of mine would like to know if Conrail is /was still running any SD45's, if not, when did they dispose of the last ones? Hope someone sees this!!

[This message has been edited by Alan (edited 23 March 2000).]

[E-8]

Thank you for asking about Conrail. We will develop any forum for which there is interest. We are only two weeks old today. We began with forums that we thought would draw interest. Most have done well, several new ones have already been added, and some have been removed until there is sufficient interest.

One reason that we may not have started with a forum for a large railroad like Conrail, is that we were aware of a large forum in another place. However, if we can generate enough interest, we would be glad to start a Conrail forum.

Until then, post your Conrail related posts here in this forum. Make sure that "Conrail" is in the subject. When we see good Conrail activity, we will start the forum.

Best Regards http://www.trainboard.com/smile.gif

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Ship It On The FRISCO!

[Mankind]

Conrail retired their SD45's quite a few years ago. I'm not sure of exact dates, but if I remember right, it was in the early-to-mid eighties. CNW wound up acquiring some of the ex-CR units for its fleet with the intention of rebuilding them, and in fact ex-CR 6224 was rebuilt with a Caterpillar prime mover as CNW 6000(the SDCAT), and ex-CR 6237 was rebuilt with a 16-645 prime mover as CNW 6564, but this plan never really held with them deciding to go ahead with purchasing SD50's. Hopefully, if we ever get a Conrail forum up and running, a Conrail fan will be able to give more precise info than I can!

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Have A Nice Day!

[This message has been edited by Mankind (edited 24 March 2000).]

[Alan]

Thanks for the info. Mankind, although it was not what my friend wanted to hear. He has a couple of surplus Kato SD45's, he wanted me to repaint into Conrail livery!

Alan www.ac-models.com (http://www.ac-models.com)

[JPindar]

SD45's can be found at http://crcyc.railfan.net actually most CR power can be found whether it be black, blue, red, green, yellow, or whatever paint. So if it is pics hes lookin for, just go there, I am sure tehre is enough info, and unit numbers to paint some of the engines.

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J.E. Pindar
Webmaster-Canadian Pacific Railway Resources
http://cpr.railfan.net

[Chessie_SD50_8563]

I would like to be part of a Big Blue Board

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LONG LIVE THE KITTEN!!!

[tremp]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by JPindar:
I am surprised, seeing most current companies on here, but, where is good ole Conrail?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

It would be great to have a Conrail Forum!

[StickyMonk]

the strange thing about conrail is i didnt like it or the livery, but now its on the way out i do now like it and am wondering what loco to model..... funny how things change when they are going

[SD80MAC]

i want a conrail forum to

Alan just paint them conrail blue and decale them with the corect conrail decals then take a different shade of blue and paint over all of the decales that say conrail and when the paint dries with a hobby knife scratch the paint off the decale just enough so that you can make out the conrail logo undernieth. Then you have a conrail sd45 that was leased out or sold to a short line or reginole that di not bother to repaint the unit.

[Chief Hiawatha]

Those SDs would look really nice done up in Milwaukee orange and black, and leased to Conrail. http://www.trainboard.com/biggrin.gif
The Chief

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"The Resourceful Road"

[Alan]

Thanks 80MAC, my friend has decided he wants me to paint one in Conrail anyway, out of period or not! But I could do as you suggest for the others http://www.trainboard.com/smile.gif

I could even start a leasing company of my own, then I could have any paint scheme I want!!!! There's a thought - a free-lance lease company!

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Alan

The perfect combination - BNSF and N Scale!

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[Station Master]

As someone who has written a book about the history of one line, I would like to see more about Conrail. It would be nice to see if the Montreal line would come up at all, likely I'd be the one bringing it up, hahaha.

[Conrailrad]

This is my first time on, and I am also surprised that there is not a Conrail forum. I moved from Conrail country in the summer of 1976 to Sante Fe country. What a bummer, but I always followed CR. My n-scale layout is loosly based on CR in Pa. "Susquehanna & Hudson RR."

Lets have a Conrail forum

[rhensley@anderson.cioe.co]

Conrail is the road that wasn't supposed to make it. As a combination of bankrupt roads including the mighty Pennsy and NYC (disguised as PC), Conrail took out a lot of favorites and continued abandoning trackage as fast as they could. This didn't make CR many friends. Indeed, when it paid back the government and did what PC was unable to do, make money, it really made enemies!

I feel very badly about some of the track PC and CR dumped, but it made CR a strong money maker. As you know, that was it's undoing as it bacame a takeover target.

All that said, NS has found it's part of CR hard to swallow as the CR men and women are railroaders that know how to run a railroad and don't work well for people that don't know railroading. The state of NS stock shows that very well.

I miss Conrail. I spent many hours listening to them on the scanner and it galls me that they are unable to run the railroad without getting permission from people who know little or nothing about the CR lines.

Roger

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[Catt]

Living in an exCorail town (NS now) I too would like a Conrail forum.There is still alot of Big Blue around. http://www.trainboard.com/biggrin.gif

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Catt!#118 - Moderator and
A freelancer to the end:D

[Rappannahock Terminal]

I will support a BIG BLUE forum! http://www.trainboard.com/smile.gif

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[Fred]

I miss the old Conrail very, very much too, I work for the new Conrail and it ain't like it use to be!!! I think the horse & the kitty bit off more than they can chew. If they would just leave us alone, we'd be glad to show them how to operate our railroad! If you start a Conrail forum, count me in- I'd be glad to try to help out as much as I could but Detroit is a long way from NJ & Pa.

[Maxwell Plant]

Welcome Fred! This was a dead thread for a while but it seems to have come back to life. As Charlie has stated, well have to see. I would lurk in the shadows of this forum seeing I'm an ATSF/BN/BNSF Fan. I know the ATSF interchanged a lot of traffic with Conrail so I would check in every now and then.

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Brent Tidaback, Member #234
BNSF Railfan-to-the Max and a N-Scaler to boot!
"Ship it on the Route of The Roadrunners!"
The Aransas Odessa & Western, a division of the BNSF

[rhensley@anderson.cioe.co]

And they had such distinctive things as the Ballast Express...

http://Madisonrails.railfan.net/ballast.jpg

Roger

[Harron]

Ah yes, the ballast express with the "honorary alcos". Damn, those C32s sure look ugly. I've got some shots of em in CR blue with CSXT patching, they only got ten of em. NS got the rest.

And you can add my vote for a Conrail forum, as I fan former Conrail lines, and think that they did a heck of a job with the railroad they were given to start with.

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Pres - Rensselaer Model RR Society, NEB&W RR
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[rhensley@anderson.cioe.co]

They may have been 'butt ugly', but they were impressive coming at you around a curve, breaking into the open. Talk about your stealth paint scheme! Suddenly, they're on you with ballast car after ballast car rolling by and then they're gone.

Roger

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[chessie]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by JPindar:
I am surprised, seeing most current companies on here, but, where is good ole Conrail?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

We can gladly chat about Conrail in the CSX forum, since we inherited a bunch of their locos http://www.trainboard.com/smile.gif

Chessie


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Harold Hodnett
Fan of NS, CSX, and their predecessors!
Coming soon: The North Carolina Railfan Web Site
http://www.trainweb.org/ncrail/

[chessie]

Here's a little "fix" for you:
http://www.trainweb.org/ncrail/images/CSXT8831.jpg

Chessie

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Harold Hodnett
Fan of NS, CSX, and their predecessors!
Coming soon: The North Carolina Railfan Web Site
http://www.trainweb.org/ncrail/

[moose]

Brining this to the top. Yeah I vote for a Conrail forum!! http://www.trainboard.com/biggrin.gif http://www.trainboard.com/biggrin.gif It is kinda hard to belive that they were left out, especially compared with some of the other roads that are listed.

[Chessie_SD50_8563]

Isn't it about time we get a CR board, the demand is here.

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LONG LIVE THE KITTEN!!!
LONG LIVE BIG BLUE!!!
I looked at DCC... and stayed DC!

[friscobob]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Fred:
I miss the old Conrail very, very much too, I work for the new Conrail and it ain't like it use to be!!! I think the horse & the kitty bit off more than they can chew. If they would just leave us alone, we'd be glad to show them how to operate our railroad! If you start a Conrail forum, count me in- I'd be glad to try to help out as much as I could but Detroit is a long way from NJ & Pa.
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I have a better ( if highly unlikely) idea- put the ex-CR folks in the front offices and dispatcher's desks, fire the horsestuff & cat litter flunkies, and you might- just might- have two decent railroads.
Oh yes, paint that ugly NS mess CR blue! http://www.trainboard.com/biggrin.gif



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Southeast....Southwest..
Ship IT on the Frisco!
Bob T.
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[rhensley@anderson.cioe.co]

There were some CR people who made it into decision making positions with CSX. It didn't take long to drive them out.

I miss CR. Yes, they abandoned a lot of track around here, but they proved that they could run a railroad and make money doing it. They were railroaders!

http://madisonrails.railfan.net/cr_4103.jpg
CR 4103 leaves the 'Big Four' number 1 main at 31st Street and starts northward toward the Dow - Roger Hensley Photo

Roger

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[ajy6b]

I definitely miss Conrail, but CSX isn't doing to bad. On my website I got just a few photo's but one of them is a C32-8 really smoking it up getting FRSE out of town. The unit is still in federal blue.

I also know that Conrail was easier to railfan. They pretty much ran their trains at a consistent time on the Boston Line. With CSX you don't know what you are getting.



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A.J. y6b

N&W and Conrail Fan

http://communities.msn.com/TheGRRModelRR

[ajy6b]

BTW, how do you guys get your pictures, in these replies?

Thanks.

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A.J. y6b

N&W and Conrail Fan

http://communities.msn.com/TheGRRModelRR

[E-8]

We hear you. A Conrail Forum will be coming along in the not too distant future.

ajy6b - see this page regarding posting photos: http://www.trainboard.com/ubbcode.html If that does not answer your question, please post a query in The Club Car Forum for a more detailed explanation. http://www.trainboard.com/smile.gif

Charlie

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[moose]

WOOHOO!!! http://www.trainboard.com/biggrin.gif http://www.trainboard.com/biggrin.gif http://www.trainboard.com/biggrin.gif http://www.trainboard.com/biggrin.gif Thanks E8! http://www.trainboard.com/smile.gif