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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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 #344262  by U-Haul
 
There is a photo of Conrail 757 with a large engine room fire, but I do not know the date. One photo is from 11-96, but I am going to guess the fire occured before. In the fire picture the paint has not faded yet. This photo from 5/1/1997 shows a faded cab, but a new long hood.
http://crcyc.railfan.net/locos/ge/8c40w/lms757qcf.jpg 11-96
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... x?id=20012 5-97
http://csx-sucks.com/pictures/?fire2.jpg