Sadly Conrail fades away

I hope you all know that Norfolk Southern issued a bulletin that all remaining Conrail blue units will be painted black by the end of 2008. NS already opened up Chatanooga paint shop to help with the painting. I went by Enola yard the other day and saw almost no blue units. Get you shots while they're still here.

Cheers,
Andy

What about CSX's policy on Conrail heritage paint and schemes?

I'm not sure about CSX. I know that there are very few conrail units left.

makes sense i have seen 3 NS x CR units just this week heading south on CSXs Detroit Columbus line. Bad thing is I didnt have the camera with me

R36 Combine Coach wrote:What about CSX's policy on Conrail heritage paint and schemes?

What policy?

Otto Vondrak wrote:

R36 Combine Coach wrote:What about CSX's policy on Conrail heritage paint and schemes?

What policy?

I believe that they are repainted on an as-needed basis. Meaning that when CSX wrecks the engines, they are repaired (if possible) and repainted into CSX's scheme.

Will CR paint still be seen on CR shared assets, like the P&H, Nat'l Docs, and Oak Island in New Jersey?
I wouldn't expect to see any of them in regular freights, just in local drills, etc.

FW

I saw a unit in Conrail paint on 8-22-08 in Fullerton CA.It had what I think was a NS patch,(black numbers on a white background).

I thought there was alot. Almost every NS consist that I've seen since the merger had a Conrail Blue engine. Except when it it new power. But I'm amazed they are going through with this. Sure they want to show unity, but it shows their heritage to.

Here's one CSX and one NS on CSAO train WPCA51 on Sept 19, 2008

I recall a bit of irony in regard to black vs blue locomotives. In the late 1980s, a certain CR VP proclaimed (erroneously) that there were no more (PC) black units on the Conrail property. He was the type that no one would dispute, even if he were wrong. This proclamation had the desired effect of speeding up the spread of blue paint, of course, until the only prior company colors to be found were on the dead lines in Altoona.

I wonder how many previously black PC units made it through their 'blue' period to get NS black.

You may get some info on surviving PC locos in this thread.........http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopi ... 95&t=31879

There was a pic in a Railpace a while back of an NS SD40-2 that had some of the end doors replaced with doors that clearly had been on a Penn Central unit, as there was the remains of the PC noodle on them. I'm not sure if the CR patch paint was coming off, or the logo itself was shabby in the first place, but clearly PC black never quite went away. (when they dumped all 567-power EMDs in the mid-90s, units went to scrap out of deadlines still in PC black, RDG green/yellow and EL GMY).

The shared assets units in Morrisville PA still have 2 blue GP38-2`s in their ranks