Surviving Conrail Painted Loco Spottings

Conrail Canopener GP38-2 NS 5296 with a high and wide load Sunday

GP38-2 5276 heading past the Altoona Amtrak station and ALTO tower with an SD70M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY9PNAuZ ... annel_page

NS 5311 has shown up in Browns Yard and we still have NS 3429 both in Can opener.

NS 5311:
http://kaback9.rrpicturearchives.net/sh ... id=1711355

NS 3429:
http://kaback9.rrpicturearchives.net/sh ... id=1701132

added bonus shot of a trailing unit on 20G:
http://kaback9.rrpicturearchives.net/sh ... id=1706529

Kaback9 wrote: added bonus shot of a trailing unit on 20G:
http://kaback9.rrpicturearchives.net/sh ... id=1706529

Looks like this unit got into a bit of a fender bender??

I have alot to post, pics will come later.
All of these were in Altoona on 8/15/09 ones not at the shop will be listed as "running" though ones at the shop may still be operating. The SD50s I believe will soon be repainted in NS black and turned into SD40Es.
NS 6785 SD60M "Running"
NS 2214 SW1500
NS 5400 SD50
NS 5407 SD50
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=1716962
NS 5410 SD50
NS 5414 SD50http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=1716962
NS 5408 SD50
NS 5436 SD50
NS 5411 SD50
NS 5422 SD50
NS 2893 GP38
NS 2940 GP38
NS 2207 Sw1500
NS 5404 SD50
NS 6757 SD60I
NS 3347 SD40-2 "Running" http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=1718202

scharnhorst wrote:

Kaback9 wrote: added bonus shot of a trailing unit on 20G:
http://kaback9.rrpicturearchives.net/sh ... id=1706529

Looks like this unit got into a bit of a fender bender??

only slightly .

CSX SD40-2 8817 was at CSAO Pavonia Enginehouse Sunday morning.

Conrail Quality C40-8W 8439 on the point of NS 39G on Friday Aug 21.

anyone know where ns 3026 gp 40-2 is lingering/ i last saw it on csao's southern secondary in july 2007 that and ns 5277 are my favorite cr painted units

CSX C40-8W 7303 is still in Conrail paint....saw it Saturday

every now and again I see ConRail GP38s on the Millville line in south Jersey

Here is Conrail Shared Assests train WPCA-11 with CSXT (Conrail Quality) SD40-2 #8817. Great RS3L horn and the paint still looks great!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBsvf1LJLbw

Thanks for watching!

I caught CSXT 7331 leading the loaded U633-20 westbound on Sunday this last week.

I counted about 4 or 5 Ex Conrail units in the Yard just East of the Runway while flying into Newark, NJ on 8/29/09 soory no cab numbers could not see them from the hight that we were at maybe less than 1000 feet or so??

I was recently reading a thread on another site where most members and posters are railroad employees, and there were many comments by the NS people about how when they show up for work, the last thing they want to see is a consist with an ex Conrail unit leading.....or anywhere in the consist for that matter.......seems that 10 years down the road from the takeover that the CR units are pretty well worn out....drafty, loading problems, noisy, ect. No one had a good word about them except that the SD-40's loaded and pulled well, but that they were loud rattletraps with cabs that the crews had to yell across to each other to be heard and the noise gets very tiring when they're on them for 10-12 hours.