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Discussion relating to the Penn Central, up until its 1976 inclusion in Conrail. Visit the Penn Central Railroad Historical Society for more information.

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Happy 40th Birthday PC
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Arsenal Tower 3rd trick 1975-76
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WANTED: ETT Metropolitan Region 1973
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Penn Central: The Movie (1974)
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Penn Central map in February, 2010 Trains
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Present-day PC Locomotives - what if?
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Penn Central/Amtrak relations
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Northern Central (Baltimore to York)
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Penn Central books
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NYC/PC/CR in West Virginia
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Chicago routes question
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PC 6 Bellefontaine, Ohio, 1970
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PC long distance train consists
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Some receipt forms
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PC Photo 5 - PC 2947 - U33B
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Penn Central freight cars out of service
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"PERRY" sign removed.......
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PC Photo - Carthage, Indiana, 1974
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bankruptcy and mergers
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the flying rail train of 1975
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Copies of Labor Contracts
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Maybrook Line, 1960s-1970s
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Buffalo Central Terminal
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York PA street running photos
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David R. Sweetland, former Conrail manager
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Early annual reports - 1967, 1968
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Army-Navy Specials
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Stop! Don't PANYC!!
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Deffered Maintenence?
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PC's first MP54 repaint.
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Penn Central to Montreal
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ex PC C425 on NY&LE
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PENN CENTRAL Merger Forty Years Ago Today
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PCRRHS Convention
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Industries in The Bronx
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Hudson Division- reduction of tracks?
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Recent PC equipment sightings
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Question RE EMD E Unit Road Number
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PI-1 steel traffic
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MRL 377- ex-PC 6235?
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Secondhand Coaches
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Woodlawn Tower, the Bronx
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An interesting rebuilt RS-3
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PC repaint lookalike
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Penn Central on the Catskill Mountain Branch
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Auto Rack Service
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Looking for photos of the Falls Road and Hojack
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Post Penn Central photographs here.
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Did any lighting stripes make it to PC?
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Penn Central trucking fleet
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Panhandle line in WPA
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