Conrail's latest motive power.
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Nov 12, 2021 05:46:35 #
fredpnm wrote:
Number 47, built-in 1914 as number 1542 for the Grand Trunk RR, became Canadian National Railway property in 1923 and was used exclusively in commuter service.
Thanks, Fred.
Pat
Jul 9, 2022 09:03:25 #
maxlieberman wrote:
Having accomplished his goals at the post office, the postmaster general has now set his eyes on Conrail. 
I'm an old retired Conrail (originally Pennsylvania Railroad) employee but probably not quite as old as the loco in your photo and nowhere near as rusty.
Jul 9, 2022 10:06:56 #
maxlieberman
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EJMcD wrote:
I'm an old retired Conrail (originally Pennsylvania Railroad) employee but probably not quite as old as the loco in your photo and nowhere near as rusty.
Thanks for the comment.
Sep 14, 2022 14:48:50 #
fredpnm wrote:
Number 47, built-in 1914 as number 1542 for the Grand Trunk RR, became Canadian National Railway property in 1923 and was used exclusively in commuter service.
and now all of the GTW has been merged into the CN.
Sep 14, 2022 14:54:16 #
maxlieberman
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rehess wrote:
and now all of the GTW has been merged into the CN.
Thanks for the info.
Sep 15, 2022 14:11:50 #
rehess wrote:
and now all of the GTW has been merged into the CN.
When I was in high school and college, the GTW met the CN at Detroit and Port Huron, the two sets of tracks met at Durand Michigan, then went on to Chicago via South Bend.
The passenger trains were mixed CN and GTW cars; GTW locomotives looked basically like CN stuff, Then sometime recently - perhaps there was a change in US law, because the SOO Line was also subsumed into the CP - it all became CN.
Here are two pictures I took around 1967, during my college years {the first one, at least, was taken with the Instamatic 100 that took me through high school and most of college - then died of broken shutter just before I graduated}.
Sep 15, 2022 14:21:49 #
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