• Conrail cabeese still in use.

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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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  by scottychaos
 
2 old Conrail cabeeses still being used.
August 2, 2005.
Goodman St. yard, Rochester, NY

http://www.railroadforums.com/photos/sh ... 500&page=1

21284
class N21
built in 1978 as part of Conrails one and only Caboose order.
She has been based at Goodman st. since at least 1997:
http://hebners.net/CR/crN21.html

http://www.railroadforums.com/photos/sh ... 500&page=1

24030
built 1969 by PennCentral.
also appears to a long-time local.
Was in Lyons in 1998:
http://hebners.net/CR/crN10.html

and..just for the record, the GP38-2 (CSX 2781)
was Conrail 8205
built new for CR in 1978.

Scot

  by pgengler
 
I caught one on the back of a CSX freight on the NEC a few months ago. There's too much graffiti to tell what the number is, though.

http://pgengler.net/images/2005-03-21/IMG_1018.jpg

  by washingtonsecondary
 
Plus the Dover, New Jersey drill (H02) has a shared assets caboose they run with, mainly to one of their chemical plant pick ups, though it does get to washington now and then.

Don't know the caboose number.

  by Ken S.
 
washingtonsecondary wrote:Plus the Dover, New Jersey drill (H02) has a shared assets caboose they run with, mainly to one of their chemical plant pick ups, though it does get to washington now and then.

Don't know the caboose number.
21303

  by Otto Vondrak
 
There are three cabeese in Oak Point (Bronx), but I dont know what state of repair they are in. I know one was used on a regular basis to assist on a shove move out to the New York Post plant. Past that, I'm not certain.

-otto-

  by AmtrakFan
 
I saw a few from an NEC Train I was on in August around Trenton.

  by catfoodflambe
 
One still haunts the Washington Court House, Ohio area. The Indiana and Ohio uses it for long backup moves in switching customers in the area - along with a ex DT&I caboose.

  by Otto Vondrak
 
I think here we're talking about actual Conrail cabooses still in use on NS, CSX, or Shared Assetts... not former Conrail hacks sold to foreign roads.

-otto-

  by SEPTALRV9072
 
There's actually one used as a shoving platform on the NS local H5A that runs from South Philly up the Trenton Cutoff. It's in pretty good condition too.

  by CSX Conductor
 
Otto Vondrak wrote:There are three cabeese in Oak Point (Bronx), but I dont know what state of repair they are in. I know one was used on a regular basis to assist on a shove move out to the New York Post plant. Past that, I'm not certain.

-otto-
The only thing it assists is saving the company $$. By having a caboose or shoving platform on the rear, the conductor does not get the arbitrary of two hours pay for riding the side of the rear car while protecting the move for more than a mile. :P

  by ToledoTerminalRy
 
One in Toledo Ohio not certain of the # but NS uses it for a backup move across the Maumee River

what a ride that would be without a caboose?

Ryan

  by Engineer James
 
CSX In Detroit Area, Has several staged currently in the CP CO-OP Yard to the tunnel. Also, last time I was down near river rouge yard (old CR YARD) Now which is under a NS/CSX CO-OP I saw a few.

  by M.R. Snell
 
One (maybe two) in use in Sharonville Ohio & another in Middletown Ohio.

Don't know the numbers - I see the sharonville one on my way into work once in a while (at 11 o'clock at night) & one of the guys in our operting group works for NS & uses the one in Middletown.

Wonder what happened to the one in Marion that was repainted into E-L red livery with a NYC number? Wonder if it's still in use up there? Last time I saw it was in 1999 or 2000 if memory serves me correctly.

-M

  by Hell Gate Fan
 
Otto Vondrak wrote:There are three cabeese in Oak Point (Bronx), but I dont know what state of repair they are in. I know one was used on a regular basis to assist on a shove move out to the New York Post plant. Past that, I'm not certain.

-otto-
Just came back from the Bronx, 21244 and 21254 were the only cabooses in sight.