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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 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 .
The Connecticut Southern Railroad (reporting mark CSO) [1] is a 90-mile (140 km) long short-line railroad operating in Connecticut and Massachusetts.The company was formed in 1996 as a spinoff of Conrail by shortline holding company RailTex and subsequently acquired in 2000 by RailAmerica.
The Connecting Railway survived as a separate corporation through the Penn Central merger, but all its tracks were sold to Conrail and Amtrak in 1976 and the corporation was subsequently dissolved. The main line became part of the Northeast Corridor , and the Chestnut Hill Branch was sold to SEPTA in 1983 (although Conrail continued switching ...