CR Conrail to CSX and Norfolk Southern

Denny Wozniczka May 1, 2010

  1. Denny Wozniczka

    Denny Wozniczka TrainBoard Member

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    Please let me know which of the lines of Conrail that the CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Corp. have acquired in the split-up.

    - Central RR Co. of New Jersey
    - Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
    - Erie
    - Lehigh & Hudson River
    - Lehigh & New England
    - Lehigh Valley
    - New York Central
    - New Haven
    - Pennsylvania RR
    - Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines
    - Reading Lines
    - and Monongahela Ry. and any other railroads.

    Thanks. Denny
     
  2. karnydoc

    karnydoc TrainBoard Member

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    Denny,

    Here's the disposition of various lines:

    CNJ: Most of their NJ mainline to Bloomsbury went to NJ Transit as the Raritan Valley Line; most of the remainder is operated by Shared Assets in North Jersey.

    DL&W: New Jersey Transit (in New Jersey). Balance either conveyed to other carriers (e.g., NYS&W in upstate NY, or NS) or abandoned

    Erie: NJ portions to NJ Transit; Southern Tier to NS

    Lehigh & Hudson River: part of the main is the NS (ex-Conrail) Hudson Secondary, and is operated by NYS&W/NS

    LV: in PA: to R&N between Scranton and Jim Thorpe, PA, sold by CR; NS, Jim Thorpe to Port Reading Junction, (Manville) NJ. The line east from there to Oak Island Yard in Newark, NJ is owned by Conrail Shared Assets.

    LNE: Except for a small segment conveyed to CNJ in Pennsylvania, it's otherwise abandoned. Given they went out of business in 1961, they never saw Conrail.

    NYC: CSX; in MA, that state's transit agency. Some segments were abandoned.

    New Haven: Split between CSX, and shortline operators, with some segments abandoned or acquired by their respective states. One line has been incorporated into the Northeast Corridor (NEC).

    PRR: NEC to Amtrak; PA portion to NS, north Jersey to Shared Assets. Maryland segment operated/owned by MARC, Maryland's transit agency.

    PRSL: Shared Assets, South Jersey

    Reading: part sold by Conrail to Reading & Northern; remainder to NS (PA) and CSX (NJ) and Shared Assets.

    Monongehala: NS

    The lines sold to NJ Transit and Amtrak predate Conrail entirely.

    Certain branches were sold either to shortline operators, the counties in which they ran, or were abandoned entirely.

    Dieter Zakas
     
  3. N&W

    N&W TrainBoard Member

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    The NEC was sold to Amtrak back in the 1970s. MARC does not own any of it. MARC trains do run on the NEC (the MARC trains on the NEC are operated by Amtrak).
     
  4. Triplex

    Triplex TrainBoard Member

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    If I may extend this question:

    Who owns the names, logos and reporting marks of the respective roads? NS uses the PRR reporting mark and CSX uses NYC, but the others aren't so obvious. I've tried to deduce based on which models are labelled "CSX licensed product", but couldn't get the whole story.
     

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