While it's hard to believe, 30 years ago on April 1,1976 Conrail offically came into existence. Looking back at magazines from the time almost everyone had...
For an excellent scholarly review of the events from the Penn Central fiasco through Conrail as part of a review of the entire North American railroad scene...
Hello to all, With permission of the group moderators and without offending too many people, I wanted to post a invitation to join a email list for my store. ...
Well, we made it!! Another successful show under our belts. I'll be posting photos of our Selkirk Tower/CP-SK with C/MRI on this website as well as and the...
Thanks for all the input, it really helped me alot. The proto type picture that I was using is located here: http//www.nycrs.org/along-the-row-1981rs2.html...
Hello all, I need a little help with some info going to be used for modeling purposes. Can someone provide me a complete locomotive roster for 1981, 1983, and...
Hi Bill, I'll take a look through some old materials & see what I can dig up. I'll be gone end of week/weekend so I may not have the results till Monday. Were...
I think I might have found what i was looking for. In a section of the wonderfull Fallen Flags website, there is a listing of a roster dated Janurary 1st,...
Cool. You may find more if you look through some of the sites listed in the Links section. Rails Northeast used to publish a listing of locomotives sorted by ...
I think the 1980 list is what I am going to go with. The roster sheet I printed has very good and detailed information. I have always been a Alco fan and love...
I am modeling this unit and I am a little puzzled. Another model maker showes this model as being rebuilt from a GP40 with 3 radiator fans on the rear. This is...
Did a quick check: GP38 #7703: Built as PC 7703 7/69. Does not show retired or rebuilt at any point in the Conrai timeline. Conrail did have two GP38...
Good morning all, I seem to be having trouble identifying a couple of engines on the 1980 Conrail roster. I am using this year roster to form the basis of the...
Have you looked through the FILES section? There is the complete renumbering sequence from 4/1/76 from Extra 2200 South. I think you'll find them there. -M ......
Bill, I went digging through some old RNE issues & came up with a page of 5509 from 1979. Not only was it not blue, but was still in almost full PC markings...
More on the 5500-5520 series. RNE 1/79 roster: 5500,5507,5509,5514,5515,5520 assigned to Harmon NY. 5233 assigned to Brier Hill (Youngstown OH). RNE 7/79 shows...
Are those the Canadian style? Jeremy "M.R. Snell" <mattndeb45150@...> wrote: Recently announced by Rail Yard models was a car suitable for a Flexi- flo...
The website shows PC H58 class, & decals for PC, early CR, & late CR will all be available: http://www.railyardmodels.com/pages/955978/index.htm -M ... Flexi- ...
The unit was infact rebuilt after a wreck. The photo is NOT mine, but here it is! Rebuilt with three fans. Wes From: "gp39chessie" <chessiegp39@...> ...
Wow - interesting! Look like the other modelmaker was right on the money! Since the yahoo format edits out attachments I placed the photo in a temporary album...
Yeah isnt that cool? I always liked that GP38 and when I saw 7703 I thought I would take a look and see if I had a picture. I think 7723 has a replacement...
Good morning everyone, I'm starting a project to build a Grumman style hi railer (early Conrail style hi railer) from a Johhny Lightning GMC step van. If there...
hey matt, not sure if you are familiar with this site i came across. the link is as follows. www.dementia.org/~patrick/fleet.html also, i came across this on...
Not to worry - I see em at shows all the time for a couple of bucks. Simple formula is 2 trucks will make i hi railer. The rear duallys should be discarded &...
Hey Rich, Been trying to get something out of the NWHS for 6 months now. For anyone coming into the middle of the discussion - I'm looking for drawings or...
Hey Matt A friend of mine mentioned to me to contact the RR Museum Of Pennsylvania. They have a huge archive in the basement of plans/color codes/etc. Might...
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