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Conrail transfer caboose 18065 brings up the rear of a local freight passing Porter, Indiana, in the early 1990s. Conrail began turning a profit by 1981, the result of the Staggers Act freedoms and its own managerial improvements under the leadership of L. Stanley Crane, [12] who had been chief executive officer of the Southern Railway. [14]
PC (NYC) Dover and Rockaway Railroad: CNJ East Pennsylvania Railroad: RDG Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad: PC (NYC) Erie Lackawanna Railway: EL (Erie/DL&W) Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad: PC (PRR) Fort Wayne and Jackson Railroad: PC (NYC) Holyoke and Westfield Railroad: PC (NH) Hudson River Bridge Company at Albany: PC (NYC) Indianapolis Union ...
The United States Railway Association (USRA) was a government-owned corporation created by United States federal law that oversaw the creation of Conrail, a railroad corporation that would acquire and operate bankrupt and other failing freight railroads. [1] USRA operated from 1974 to 1986.
Therefore, the EL petitioned and was accepted into Conrail at the last minute. In 1976, much of the company's railroad assets were thus purchased by the federal government and combined with other companies' railroad assets to form Conrail. An independent Erie Lackawanna Estate continued in existence for several years thereafter.
Map of Final System Plan Freight Service Lines Operated by Conrail. Plan formulated by United States Railway Association. Date: July 1975: Source "United States Railway Administration Final System Plan" Author: United States Railway Association, Washington, DC: Permission (Reusing this file)
The Lincoln Secondary is a railroad line owned and operated by Conrail in the U.S. state of Michigan as part of its Conrail Shared Assets Operations.. The line runs from Carleton northeast to Detroit along a former Pennsylvania Railroad line.
Today Conrail (Shared Assets) still runs daily trains over what was the east end of the Detroit Terminal Railroad to service a Jeep manufacturing plant owned by Chrysler Group LLC. [7] On May 31, 1984, Conrail legally merged Detroit Terminal Railroad into itself, officially ending 79 years of continuous operation by Detroit's only terminal ...
The newly created Harrisburg Line continued under Conrail until the late 1990s. The Harrisburg Line became part of Norfolk Southern Railway on June 1, 1999, after the breakup of Conrail. Other Conrail lines such as the Lehigh Line , which was previously the main line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad .