• What happened to all the SW8/9's?

  • 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.
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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  by csrrfan86
 
Does anyone know the fate of the CR SW8's and SW9's? Are some still around working on shortlines??
  by scottychaos
 
You can find a good suppy of them here:
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scottychaos/LVRR.html
16 LV-Conrail SW8's

http://gold.mylargescale.com/Scottychao ... Survivors/
7 EL-Conrail SW8's and SW9's

http://gold.mylargescale.com/Scottychao ... /index.htm
about 20 more..NYC, PRR and PC..

thats about 43 known SW8 and SW9 survivors..accounting for all CR predecessors except Reading, CNJ and L&HR.

Scot
  by lvrr325
 
Conrail rebuilt some of them. They were scattered to the winds along with all pre-SW1500 switchers, although a few were still on the property as late as the split. Just as an example, completely by accident we found one used to work a grain elevator in rural Indiana on a stub of former Pennsy. Still in blue paint, likely ex-DL&W. I'm sure barring a major failure it's still there.
  by atsf sp
 
Berkshire Scenic in Lenox, MA has preserved a SW8 in Conrail paint. But it may soon be repainted into Berskshire Scenic/NH paint.