Conrail B-23-7 #1980

[The Man]

Anyone know where the conrail B-23-7 #1980 ended up? Did this unit make it to the NS/CSX split? thanks for the help.

JJ-

[scottychaos]

Well, it took a bit of tracking, but I found her!

CR 1900-2023.
some to CSX 3144-3187
some to NS 4024-4091

Found CR 1980 as going to CSX:
http://www.trainweb.org/crts/dis.html

If CSX numbured them consecutvely (not always the case)
that would make CR 1980 CSX 3170.

nope..thats no good..CSX 3170 was CR 1996:
http://www.conrailcorp.com/storedlist.html


ah..here we go:
http://www.trainweb.org/csxphotos/html/B23-7.html

CR 1980 became CSX 3189.

googling CSXT 3189 brings up:
http://www.thedieselshop.us/FRVT.HTML

head over to:
http://photos.nerail.org/

and there she is!
http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo ... 162517.jpg

CR 1980 is now Fore River Transportation 102, in Massachusetts.

CR 1980 to CSX 3189 to Fore River 102.

Scot

[scottychaos]

And CR 1980 is famous for being the only unit to wear the "Keep it moving with Conrail" scheme:

http://crcyc.railfan.net/locos/ge/7b23/ ... moving.jpg

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 606&nseq=1

Scot

[uhaul]

So, why did more units not wear this paint scheme?

[tomc]

There is a model of the 1980 up for sale on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Atlas-N-Scale-Conra ... dZViewItem

[Engineer Spike]

I always remember the B23-7s in the Berkshires. When I was in college, my buddies and I used to camp out at Bancroft. On the weekends, they would lash about half a dozen together. They would chug-chug up the hill with a good size train. I believe that they would do this to get the units from W. Springfield, Worcester, and points east back to Selkirk, to be serviced.

[scharnhorst]

I can remember seeing Many Conrail B23-7's working the locals in and out of Lyons, NY LY-13 and LY-14 if I remember correctly and in and around Auburn. Still yet I remember these units being the ones that were rounded up to move ballast trains on the weekends or to accident scenes.

[tomjohn]

I remember seeing CONRAIL No.1980 occasionally in and around SENECA YARD BLASDELL,NY /BUFFALO,NY most of all it carried a slogan "KEEP IT MOVING WITH CONRAIL"!

Tom

[NHRDC121]

IIRC, the reason the 1980 was the only unit to get this paint scheme was it was "introduced" in the year 1980, so....since there was, and only COULD be one unit with that number.........

[scottychaos]

IIRC, the reason the 1980 was the only unit to get this paint scheme was it was "introduced" in the year 1980, so....since there was, and only COULD be one unit with that number.........

that doesnt really make sense..
because what does the year have to do with the slogan?
Why couldnt conrail numbers 2389, 3172 and 6503 wear the slogan "Keep it moving with Conrail" in 1981?

yes I understand the slogan came out in the year 1980 so they put it on unit 1980..
but there is nothing preventing the slogan from going on any more units..regardless of the year or unit number..

I guess they just decided they didnt want to use the slogan anymore..
and it wasnt worth painting on any more units..

Scot

[lvrr325]

It was a one-off promotional paint scheme, just like the Olympic Trials unit, the United Way unit, the We Support Our Troops unit, and even the various Bicentennial units. Don't understand why that's complicated.

[scharnhorst]

IIRC, the reason the 1980 was the only unit to get this paint scheme was it was "introduced" in the year 1980, so....since there was, and only COULD be one unit with that number.........

You had better do your research CONRAIL B23-7 UNITS 1900-1966 were all built and delivered April and September 1978 and CONRAIL B23-7 UNITS 1967-2023 were built in between March 1979-September 1979.

The newest units slotted for the year 1980 were 18 EMD GP40-2's #'s 3386-3403

Other units to join the fleet in 1980 were 6 SW900's numbered 8658-8663 all of which came from the Raritan River Railroad.

This also saw the last of the AEH-12 mother/Slug sets go, the last of the E Units (out side of 4022)
and all the GG1's. The store lines were stretched to 800 in storage.

Source of info: Conrail Motive Power Review Vol. One

[lvrr325]

Okay, but that doesn't mean the paint scheme couldn't have been introduced in 1980, and thus unit #1980 selected to wear it....

[scharnhorst]

Okay, but that doesn't mean the paint scheme couldn't have been introduced in 1980, and thus unit #1980 selected to wear it....

True I'm only makeing a point that the unit was built before