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Conrail 6114, a GE Dash 8-40CW, leads a train westbound out of Altoona, Pennsylvania. A Conrail train led by EMD GP40 3209 at Duncannon, Pennsylvania. Since Conrail was divided between Norfolk Southern Railway and CSX Transportation in 1999, all remaining locomotives have been successively repainted, and many remain in service. CR units had ...
The Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) was formed on April 1, 1976 not by a standard merger, but as a new government corporation that took over only designated lines and other rail-related assets from the existing bankrupt companies. Seven major companies were included:
The plan called for Conrail to consist of the complete Penn Central network (a conglomerate of three massive former northeastern systems — the Pennsylvania Railroad, New York Central Railroad and New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad) as well as the following six railroads: Ann Arbor Railroad (bankrupt 1973) Erie Lackawanna Railway (1972)
On January 4, 1987, two trains collided on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor main line near Chase, Maryland, United States, at Gunpow Interlocking.Amtrak train 94, the Colonial, (now part of the Northeast Regional) traveling north from Washington, D.C., to Boston, crashed at over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) into a set of Conrail locomotives running light (without freight cars) which had fouled the ...
The Auto-Train Corporation, whose Auto Train ran primarily over the Seaboard, ordered another 17, for a total production run of 125. Four of these would be delivered to Conrail after Auto-Train ran into financial difficulties. The Conrail U36B locomotives were fitted with AAR Type B trucks. [2] [9] The unit price was $285,000. [5]
The Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) was an 11,000-mile (18,000 km) system formed in 1976 from the Penn Central Railroad (1968–1976), [19] and five other ailing northeastern railroads that were conveyed into it, forming a government-financed corporation. Conrail was perhaps the most controversial conglomerate in corporate history.
Conrail Shared Assets Operations (CSAO) is the commonly used name for modern-day Conrail (reporting mark CRCX), an American railroad company. It operates three networks, the North Jersey, South Jersey/Philadelphia, and Detroit Shared Assets Areas, [1] where it serves as a contract local carrier and switching company for its owners, CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway.
By the following year, the company was operating two 60-car unit trains a week, each carrying around 1 million US gallons (0.83 × 10 ^ 6 imp gal; 3,800 m 3) of juice. On June 7, 1971, the "Great White Juice Train," the first unit train in the food industry, commenced service over the 1,250 miles (2,010 km) route.