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Three former Conrail (née Erie Lackawanna) units were rebuilt by GE in 1987 and sold to Island Creek Coal for the Antaibao surface mine in China. A cab built from numerous GE locomotive parts representing D&H #757 is preserved at the Toronto Railway Museum and is currently in use as a locomotive simulator. [2]
The GE U36C is a 3600 hp diesel-electric locomotive model built by GE Transportation Systems.. The length of the locomotive was 67 ft 3 in (20.50 m), standard for U30C, U33C, U34CH, U36C, U36CG, C30-7 and C36-7.
Diesel 3 3,000 hp (2,237 kW) Ex-Central Railroad of New Jersey GP40P; Rebuilt by Conrail 1991–1993. Last remaining units from a 13 engine order. 4101 painted in heritage NJDOT scheme. 4109 painted in heritage Central Railroad of New Jersey scheme. EMD GP40PH-2B: 4200–4219 1965–1969 1993–1994 19 Ex-Penn Central.
The Erie Lackawanna Railway was formed on March 1, 1968, as a subsidiary of Dereco, the holding company of the Norfolk and Western Railway, which had bought the railroad. On April 1, the assets were transferred as a condition of the proposed but never-consummated merger between the N&W and Chesapeake and Ohio Railway .
The Century 424 was a four-axle, 2,400 hp (1,790 kW) diesel-electric locomotive. 190 were built between April 1963 and May 1967.Cataloged as a part of Alco's Century line of locomotives, the C424 was intended to replace the earlier RS-27 model and offered as a lower-priced alternative to the C425.
In 1974, General Electric produced 70 Arrow II cars in the married pair format, classed MA-1G. These cars were built in GE's Erie (PA) shops with car shells from Avco. The Arrow IIs were numbered 534–603. They were purchased specifically to replace the ancient PRR MP54s, which were slowly phased out of New Jersey service in late 1977.
Lake Erie and Louisville Railway: 1871 1877 N/A Sold at foreclosure; no property in Indiana Lake Erie and Pacific Railroad: PRR: 1860 1865 Lake Erie and Louisville Railroad: Lake Erie, Wabash and St. Louis Railroad: WAB: 1852 1856 Toledo, Wabash and Western Railroad: Lake Erie and Western Railroad: NKP: 1887 1923 New York, Chicago and St. Louis ...
These cars were the first of the Comet series, built by Pullman Standard in 1970–73 for the New Jersey Department of Transportation and used the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad's diesel-hauled commuter services. These railcars were named after the Jersey Central train Blue Comet. These were considered state of the art at the time, due to their all ...