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Discussion related to the operations and equipment of Consolidated Rail Corp. (Conrail) from 1976 to its present operations as Conrail Shared Assets. Official web site can be found here: CONRAIL.COM.

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 #356037  by pablo
 
Did I miss something? Who said they were going to be scrapped?

Dave Becker

 #356112  by GOLDEN-ARM
 
As ANYONE knows, if you have recently painted a loco, it will never be scrapped. Makes perfect sense. All the freshly painted Conrail Alcos come to mind, in the late 70's, early 80's, as my proof............ :P

 #356294  by Engineer James
 
Maybe thats why, thanks U-Haul..... :-)

 #362207  by Tadman
 
I hate to see them leave the property - the 15 series is fun to watch switching the mills of NW indiana, because they are loud - without the turbo, there's plenty of stack-talk coming from the PM. Further, being a little lo-power unit, the crews have to kick them pretty hard to move a heavier cut, as opposed to using whatever road power is on hand to switch, as is done the ex-NKP auto yard at Ford/Hegewisch. For those interested, the GP15-1 is still used regularly in Chicago Heights by UP's CHTT, under the UPY number series. They switch Sugar Steel, Ford, Chi Hts Steel, and Bulkmatic along with partner MP15's.

 #364003  by General
 
I heard that they were all bought up by GMTX. the units in enola have the conrail and ns markings blacked out and the gmtx initials stenciled on.

 #364287  by scharnhorst
 
CSX also rid them selves of a bunch of Ex Conrail GP-15's to some leaseing company don't rember the count but I want to say between 15 and 20 units to GMTX?

 #366489  by Conrail8124
 
A few of them were sold to LTEX as well - At Enola about 2 weeks ago:

<img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/129/3852 ... a277be.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Enola, PA - Enola Yard - 2/8/07">

<img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/3852 ... 78ba9c.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Enola, PA - Enola Yard - 2/8/07">

<img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/156/3852 ... 5ff1aa.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Enola, PA - Enola Yard - 2/8/07">

<img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/147/3852 ... 099fac.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Enola, PA - Enola Yard - 2/8/07">

-EDIT: edited the code so it would display correctly - keeper1616

 #379982  by Tadman
 
Last sunday I noticed the bottle train from my speeding South Shore train, at the IHB overpass at Kennedy Ave. This used to be a typical assignment for the GP15-1's, really the only road assignment I've ever seen them on. Now, it has a blue SD50 leading long-hood forward, and I couldnt' tell if there was something on the other end. Talk about a bump in power, going from GP15 to SD50... This is a bit overkill, as the train never goes over 20-ish mph from my observation. Must be one of those "what's in the power-pit today" situations.

Bottle Train vid on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwOV9uTYHrA

 #380032  by Engineer James
 
CSX Downgraded all their GP15-1's to yard service recently. However, they are still chugging. Waiting for a few to go on sale. #1534 and #1536.
Would pay some good money for either one of em' sentimental value I guess.....

 #380354  by Engineer James
 
Well, I am just saying in CSX just down graded them. They still have many miles to go..... Most of them might still see road service. But, those 2 are my favorites.