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I know I'm 5 years late to the party. But I worked for conrail at that time and have one of the buttons that were passed out for us to wear. I would think it may be a more rare item than the bumper sticker. The button is white with blue writing stating Let Conrail Be Conrail.

Well, It's been over a month sense I E-mailed Tri-state and have not received any responses from the Tri-State Railway Historical Society. :( I guess my journey has come to an end in trying to find a proper home for this Blue Comet step. Thankyou to all that have lead me in differant directions wit...

The problem is that without a provenance it is just another stepbox. Stepboxes are fungible. A passenger carrying railroad will have a lot of them. if one breaks or disappears you get another one from the storekeeper. If there were a sworn statement from a trainman who we could establish served on ...

Well, It's been over a month sense I E-mailed Tri-state and have not received any responses from the Tri-State Railway Historical Society. :( I guess my journey has come to an end in trying to find a proper home for this Blue Comet step. Thankyou to all that have lead me in differant directions with...

No, I only contacted who was talked about on this site. Thank you for passing this info. along. I will reach out once again. THANK YOU R&DB....Will post if anything happens. I am just amazed at how many different ways to go with the use of Railroad.Net This site has educated me and pointed me in...

Well 2 weeks have pasted and no communication with the museum or Tony Macrie. Dont know what else to do or say. But we tried! I thought the museums would of loved to have this peice for its past history. Guess I was wrong.

If anyone has any other ideas, I'm all ears.

Well nomis you were correct and I Thank You. I e-mailed CONDUCTOR@ and they responded within a couple of hours. I think when they saw the picture I sent them they saw that this was the real deal. There is no mistaking that blue comet color and the patina along with the history now. Here's the respon...

OK...I took your advise and e-mailed conductor@. We will see what happens. otherwise I tried everything and will just hang on to it. The good thing is, I now have a complete story behind this step. Thanks to Railroad.net and NJT4272.

Here is the wonderfull response I got from NJT4272. It's more than I thought I would ever get. :-D The coach that you remember in Bay Head Yard, that sat on blocks, served as the yard office, and was eventually hauled away, was Blue Comet observation car TEMPEL. It was in the early 80's when the ca...

I can remember working in Raritan yard in the late 70's early 80's when a GG1 came in for a paint job. It was painted tuscan red with the yellow stripes. I was very young (around 20) when this happened. I do remember the paint used on the GG1 was Dupont Imron paint. It came in 1 gallon cans and ther...

Here is the wonderfull response I got from NJT4272. It's more than I thought I would ever get. :-D The coach that you remember in Bay Head Yard, that sat on blocks, served as the yard office, and was eventually hauled away, was Blue Comet observation car TEMPEL. It was in the early 80's when the car...

Jerry, As a new member, there's a certain number of posts you have to make before the private message function opens to you. Yea, I kind of figured that. Thats why I wanted to let NJT4272 know about not being able to pm him. He took great care of my questions and wanted to thank him. Hopefully I'm ...

NJT4272 I would like to give you a Big thank you. I am unable to PM you and would love for you to see this step stool. Its painted in Blue Comet color and in Mint Cond. Its been stored for many many years indoors. the only way I can get you a picture is to e-mail you, if you would like to see it. Wo...

I'm a rail fan because i'm third gen. railroader. From PRR to CNJ to Conrail. Pre NJ Transit. So its in my blood. I only worked for 10 years in rail roading (1976 to 1986) before I moved on to a goverment job. I've worked passenger cars to freight. from sweeping trains to pipefitting to supervisor. ...

I have a step stool from the blue comet with orginal paint on it. Was thinking about donating it to a museum and was wondering what something like this would be valued at. Thanks for any help I can get on this. deadhead, Check your private messages here. I gave you a very thorough answer to the que...